Phantom
The Phantom is a community-developed keyboard design, for a tenkeyless with plate-mounted Cherry MX switches, intended to fit inside a Filco Majestouch Tenkeyless case. Parts were produced/procured and sold together in a Phantom Group Buy during 2012, and did not include a case.
The keyboard was engineered by bpiphany (formely "PrinsValium") following the original idea of HaveANiceDay. Bpiphany owns the copyright of the PCB. There is text on the circuit board: "All rights reserved, but just ask I won't charge anything".
The unique qualities of the Phantom are:
- Different layouts with the same PCB. Plates were made for ISO and ANSI, with and without Windows keys (and for a special "7bit layout"). The PCB supported more layout options than the official plates.
- Fully programmable controller.
- Custom-designed mounting holes in the switch plates, allowing most switches to be opened without desoldering so that e.g. the switch type can be changed.
The controller is a Teensy 2.0, mounted under the main PCB between the rows for function and numeric keys. Unfortunately, not all third party cases that can hold the innards of a Filco has space also for the controller board.
The original group order was conducted during 2012. A few group orders for specific parts have been (are) organised afterwards.
Please read the Phantom instruction guides to know what to do with all those parts that could be ordered in the Phantom Group Buy.
Contents
Layouts
- Layout variants of the Phantom keyboard.
Phantom ANSI
Phantom ANSIWIN
Phantom ISO
Phantom ISOWIN
Phantom 7BIT
Phantom 7BIT with spherical keycaps from Round 4
Pictures
Phantom PCB (design)
Phantom PCB
