It’s that time of year again. Bet you didn’t think the world would look so different this time last year, huh?

Like 40 million other Californians, we at Clueboard have been sheltering in place. As much as we need our keebs, our business is not essential. We have continued the activities we can, and have delayed the rest.

But for a year now we’ve been promising the 2x1800 will come back on April 1st. So no gimmicks, no fun, just a return of last year’s PCB. Due to shelter in place restrictions we can’t do the bent cases this year, so instead we are doing FR4 plates and bottoms. If you have a California Macropad the design is very similar to that.

Want the 2018 version instead? It’s available too!

Original 2x1800 copy follows.

Taking inspiration from the Planck THK, the Clueboard 2x1800 sports a handsome row of diodes along the top, all with the same orientation. This makes it easy to spot mistakes in orientation or soldering when you are inspecting your work.

The 2x1800 comes with 4 rotary encoders. Move your mouse, control your computer volume, setup pitch bending in music mode, or anything else you can think of. With 4 encoders you have plenty of freedom for creativity.

And in a first for any keyboard the 2x1800 features { { { Shake To Undo } } }. Make a mistake? Just slide your keyboard forward and back a few times and it will invoke your operating system’s undo command.

And as always the 2x1800 has lots of keys, up to 129 of them to be exact.