Owner / Designer
Hi! My name is Claude and I am the sole owner and operator of Kea Workshop. I have a degree in Mechanical Engineering and I am a professional Yacht Designer. I started Kea Workshop as a store, as well as a kind of portfolio site. I noticed there was not much support for Ergonomic Mechanical Keyboards in New Zealand, so being an enthusiast myself for designing and building boards, I launched the Kea Workshop website in mid August, 2023.
I got into keyboards as I wanted a macropad to speed up some processes in CAD. I started designing my first macropad, which was dubbed the LOMOpad, which was an 8 key board based of a Ben Valak board. I was not satisfied with this board and decided I wanted something with a few more keys and an encoder, so I designed the Rhino Pad.