About Clickety Split
Clickety Split is a small, independent hardware project focused on thoughtful input devices, wireless electronics, and the little details that make a build feel personal.
Keyboards are where much of the story began.
What started as a collection of split keyboard kits, parts, and experiments has slowly grown into something more intentional: a place for compact, practical, and carefully considered hardware.
At Clickety Split, we have always been guided by curiosity. Earlier keyboard projects such as Leeloo, Leeloo-Micro, and Pepito helped us explore layouts, build styles, controller options, displays, rotary encoders, wireless features, and the many small choices that go into making a device feel right.
Those designs are an important part of our story. They helped define the direction Clickety Split is moving toward today.
From parts to platforms
For a long time, custom keyboard building has depended on combining many separate pieces: controllers, displays, batteries, sockets, PCBs, cases, firmware, and a little bit of hope that everything will work together cleanly.
We are now moving toward more integrated hardware foundations.
That means designing boards where more of the supporting electronics are built in from the start: charging, power management, wireless support, display support, protection, sensors, and firmware-friendly design choices.
The goal is not to make projects feel less custom.
The goal is to make the foundation stronger.
What comes next
The next generation of Clickety Split hardware is centred around projects like MNML and Chiisai.
MNML (pronounced Minimal) is being developed as an integrated split keyboard platform with the core electronics built directly into the keyboard PCB.
Chiisai is being developed as a compact controller-style board for future Clickety Split projects and compatible keyboard builds.
Together, they represent the next step for Clickety Split: fewer loose parts, cleaner builds, better integration, and a more purposeful path for wireless hardware design.
They also point toward a broader direction.
The same ideas behind MNML and Chiisai—thoughtful power design, compact electronics, wireless capability, sensors, practical firmware support, and careful physical integration—can extend beyond keyboards.
Future projects such as Helios UV, Helios X, Beanie, and other small hardware experiments may explore that wider space while still carrying the same Clickety Split approach: useful, understandable hardware built with care.
Respecting where it started
Clickety Split would not exist without the custom keyboard community, open-source firmware projects, shared build knowledge, and the many hardware ideas that came before it.
Our earlier keyboard designs are still preserved through legacy pages, build guides, and reference information. Some older items may remain available while inventory lasts, while others are kept as part of the project’s history and support library.
Nothing is being erased.
The story is simply moving forward.
Built with care
Clickety Split is intentionally small.
That means designs are tested carefully, changes are made thoughtfully, and new products may take time before they are ready. The focus is on making hardware that feels practical, understandable, and worth building with.
Clickety Split is designed, built, packed, tested, and cared for in small batches.
Whether you are here to find an older part, learn about a past design, follow what is in development, or build something new, thank you for being here.
Clickety Split is still growing, still learning, and still building the next piece of the story.