Gboard Kurukuru Version
Your fingers stay put. The keys come around
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Details
- External ID
- 1276371
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Gboard Kurukuru Version
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 92
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.99
- Tags
- Custom Keyboards, Hardware, DIY
Description
Gboard Kurukuru Version is a conveyor belt keyboard from Google Japan's Gboard team, its 15th. Four belts carry 29 keys each past your fingers, so one hand can reach every character. It isn't for sale, but STL files, firmware and a build guide are on GitHub.
Enrichment
- Niche
- open-source hardware and maker electronics
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- rotating physical keyboard for typists
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This is custom physical keyboard hardware involving motorized conveyor belts, custom mechanical components, 3D printing engineering, and microcontroller firmware.
What it would actually take: Building this requires custom mechanical CAD engineering (STL design for motor mounts and continuous belt track linkages), motor drivers, and microcontrollers (e.g., RP2040) running custom C/C++ or QMK/ZMK firmware. It requires physical fabrication (3D printing, soldering, hardware assembly) and mechanical debugging to ensure reliable key travel and electrical contact while keys rotate on belts.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 28 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 29 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 305 days after the earliest competitor.
- A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones · hn · 2025-12-10 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Yamaha PSR-i510 Keyboard Combo Pack · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- US keyboards don't have enough keys, so I switched to Japanese · hn · 2026-04-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- QWERTY mini Pro · hn · 2026-03-30 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- una mano · ph · 2026-10-03 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- FartNote · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Kiiboard : Keyboard for Coding · ph · 2026-09-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- hp-enklo-32-46-68 · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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