GitHub: https://yal-tools.github.io/ergo-keyboards/
It is not as big as some existing collections, however:
- I have filled out a bunch of metadata for the keyboards, such as switch profile and spacing, number/types of encoders, and information about the common and less-common input devices
- By limiting this to column-staggered and ortholinear keyboards only, it is possible to do a few more useful things, such as filtering based on column/row count (as if key count means much on smaller keyboards), key clusters, pinky stagger, or splay.
- Apart of filtering, you can sort the keyboards, toggle visibility of columns (to only see what you care about), and generally sift through keyboards pretty quickly.
A few more pictures:
Finding yourself some little keyboards with Choc/GLP switches
Taking a peek at the rarer 7+ column keyboards
Submitting a new keyboard
All in all, I hope that this will make it easier to answer "is there a keyboard that does X" type of questions
The keycaps are a part of this keyboard's cost (Keebio prices a similar set that comes with Cepstrum at $52), though it's not easy to find choc-spaced keycaps for cheap unless you 3d-print them.
The primary drivers for the cost are likely the R&D work behind the keyboard and that it's a keywell (with more complicated assembly process).
Perhaps you could get a used one - IIRC there was a channel on MoErgo's discord.
If you mean the thing for strafing, there was a QMK pull request, though this is now being hastily banned from just about every competitive game. If you mean hall effect switches, I'm not aware of any keywell keyboards with them - there's just a single 58-key (Lucca 58-HE) as far as column-staggered boards go.