Butterfly keyboard
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The term butterfly keyboard can refer to any of:
- IBM TrackWrite: A laptop keyboard that folds out when opening the lid to grow to a width wider than the laptop body. The mechanism quickly got the nickname "Butterfly keyboard".
- Keyboardio Model 01: A split keyboard shaped like a butterfly. Keyboardio also has a butterfly in it's logo.
- btrfly: an open-source 3D design based on the Dactyl Manuform but with joined halves and ortholinear alpha sections.
- A keyboard made of a type of "Butterfly switch", such as:
- Key Tronic foam and foil: The linear variant was marketed as the "Butterfly™" switch.
- Marquardt Butterfly: An enthusiast moniker for a switch from Marquardt where the interals resemble a butterfly.
- A type of thin scissor switch where the legs don't cross past the interlink. The term was popularised by the Apple butterfly mechanism which was far from the first of this type.