Svalboard
Svalboard Lightly
Svalboard Lightly
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Free domestic shipping, $20 off int'l shipping.
Current build time is typically ~3 weeks 🙏🏻
Svalboard Lightly is a Datahand keyboard for the modern era, with total anatomical customization and integrated Trackpoint and/or trackball mouse.
Custom colors are BACK!
+Add-on: Nanuk 910 Case for a killer travel package!
Type Lightly!
- Customized anatomical fitment brings 50 keys just 1-2mm away from your fingertips and thumbs
- 20 gram-force magneto-optical keys with instant breakaway reduce effort and prevent overuse injuries by combining ultra-light forces with maximum tactility
- Integrated pointing lets you stay 100% hands-down while still maintaining high productivity in any OS
Features
- Legendary Datahand 20g magneto-optical key mechanisms
- Infinitely adjustable fitment system for any hand
- Stainless steel mechanisms for super smooth tuning
- Live-programmable keymaps, combos, tap dance, etc with
Vial-QMK firmware - no re-flashing required - Chair-mount and clamp-on desk mount compatible
- Magnetic USB-C cables included
Pointing Options
- Trackball - single or dual
- Touchpad - single or dual
- Trackpoint - can combine with trackball or touchpad
Colors
Black ABS is default.
Choose add-ons to customize your build:
+Add-on: Color Keys (one color: center and side keys)
+Add-on: Color Keys Combo (two colors: center and side keys)
PLA Palms available separately for thermoformability.
Custom colors may be available for add'l cost and build time. DM @_claussen on discord to discuss.
Adjustability
- 5 axis cluster position adjustment for each finger and thumb
- Hand size adjustment via 3-axis moveable palmrest carrier
- Optional thermoformable palmrests - contact us
- DIY-friendly palmrest carrier to attach your own custom rests
Accommodates any hand size, including individual finger length discrepancies, with continuously adjustable positioning in X/Y/Z/Roll/Yaw.
Programmability
Use any layout you want, and customize on the fly with 100% free and open source software.
Shipping with QWERTY-ish, Colemak-ish and Dvorak-ish layouts by default, you may never need to touch it, but Svalboard is built with customization in mind, using the powerful open source QMK firmware project and the amazing Vial configuration tool.
Svalboard runs on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 MCU, with an abundant 8MB of program memory, for even the most complicated keyboard FW requirements.
- Live, powerful keymap customization with Vial
- QMK under the hood
- 100% Open Source Software - free as in speech, free as in beer
Modularity and Repairability
We are committed to repairability and the right to repair. If you break something, we'll help you get it fixed.
Every component can be swapped individually -- and if you break something, replacement parts are available.
Want to print your own keys? STLs/STEP files are available to customers, to print or modify for your personal use, and we stock the magnets you need. Need a replacement PCB? We've got those too.
Pinouts for all connectors and the full 0.1" header breakouts are available too, so you can expand and integrate anything else you like with the remaining free I/O pins.
Made in USA
Designed and built in Pacifica, CA, USA by a multi-decade Datahand user and professional consumer electronics developer.
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it is not an exaggeration to say that svalboard saved my career.
i own 2!
An amazing piece of hardware. I was at ~140wpm on a slab and a heavy vim user. While I've been pretty lucky with RSI-type issues and made sure to take care of myself, I figured it was time to get serious about the future of my hands as I'm not getting any younger.
The learning curve is pretty steep, as I also decided to go hard mode and learn a new layout at the same time. However, I know I can never go back, as typing on the slab already feels like my fingers are having to fly all around the keyboard like crazed spiders compared to the Svalboard. It's a feeling I can't unfeel.
Anyway, the Svalboard is an amazing piece of hardware and definitely the endgame in terms of digital input devices.
Easily one of the best input devices I've ever had the pleasure of using! Absolutely love the feeling of typing as well as the ease of changing layouts without needing to reflash the board!
Okay, so nearly a month in, and I'm still extremely happy with them. The customisability is off the charts, and the only suprise for me was the sensitivity - coming from Kaihl choc reds, the keys are very light. Set up is straightforward, and I was at 25wpm after a weekend's grind. I'm now at 45wpm, and happy with my progress.
I'm actually typing this on my Svalboard right now, after only a week and a half of daily practice. I'm up to 44wpm and I've made it my daily driver and removed my old ergo keyboard and replaced it with a logitech K400r because I do all my computing with the Svalboard but guests for example might still need to use my computer. People at work were curious about it, all for different RSI related options. Claussen deserves praise! Just to be clear after a long day at work i can't type this review with a normal keyboard but with a Svalboard it's no problem