Did you print your keycaps, too??
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I will always upvote split ergo (column staggered) keyboards. Nice stuff, looks much much cleaner than the one i made and threw out 😂
I have improvements I will make on my portable keyboard for lappy, but I'm never going back.
They're a lot more comfortable.
Okay, Star Platinum.
Man, 3d printing is punk as fuck, I love when people post bespoke shit.
Very cool! Can I crosspost to !mechanical_keyboards@programming.dev ?
Holy cow! I didn't know about that community, thank you!
Nobody needs permission to post a link to something somewhere. What horror happened to you?
Oh, I've seen it happen before, such as here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45667427?scrollToComments=true
Thanks anyway, I'll post right away
There are always lunatics, you'd go mad trying to please everyone. It's one thing to not promote harassment. But if you put something into the stormwater drain of the information superhighway it's flowing everywhere with the rest or the shit.
You'd get further cursing the rain for falling on you.
Super neat. What are those knobs for?
What kind of switches did you choose?
Knobs are for knobby things. QMK is extremely configurable. Sometimes they are volume, sometimes seeking, sometimes mouse x and y, sometimes scroll wheel, sometimes keyboard arrows, mostly decorative.
MX browns. I am distinctly not obsessed with keyboards. I just like being able to use computers in postures that don't hurt.
sometimes mouse x and y
The anti-trackball.
I have a trackball, but for pixel perfect placement etc. The knobs help me draw badly with more precision.
What did you program your knobs to do? All of the above?
indeed. Layers like an onion or an ogre.
Very cool!
Honest question, does using a keyboard like this make you forget how to use a standard one?
I know op did it for the pain, so it's a moot point. But if I did it just because it's cool, and to avoid injury in the future, would I mess up my normal keyboard abilities?
I also switched to colemakdh with a series of layers and qmk tricks. My typing is quite slow so far, around 30 wpm, I was never an amazing typist but I haven't noticed difficulty with standard qwerty layouts.
It's not like you get confused between a harp and a guitar, or a spoon and a knife.
for me, switching to dvorak about 10 years ago has made me absolutely useless at typing qwerty… i get used to it after 5min, but much slower than i used to be and wow is it paiiiiiin (both literally in my wrists - the reason i switched, and figuratively in that i feel like im fighting the keyboard for every word)
… or perhaps you mean the differences in physical layout
As someone who runs an ergodox ez with a custom key layout and who goes in to work from time to time using normal QWERTY keyboards (both English and German configuration), you do not lose anything. It's incredibly easy to switch between every config you have.
I also think most people would appreciate a split keyboard setup because it's so much better for posture and health and comfortability. Would highly recommend.
I use Colemak on phone and Qwerty on desktop, and never think about it.
Purple dactyl represents
How is trackball? I wasn't sure how easily layering would work giving up easy access to half the thumb cluster.
Sadly I couldn't get a bearing/ball mix that wouldn't feel "gritty".
Otherwise the hand position is nice and layering is easy to use even with the ball. Overall nice to use and great setup for CAD software.
Tried ball transfer units?
I've found Ruby balls ok sometimes but BTUs are where it's at. Expensive though.
Looks so good. One day I will build a Dactyl as well, one day.
Pretty easy with that cosmos thing I linked. you can literally drag and drop buttons and shit. Pretty neat!
The most time consuming part was cleaning up the keycap prints as that involved removing support material and a brim for each. Soldering was around 4 hours work.
Respect for your tism.
What the hell is this madness?
Very nice! That's a pretty big boy ;)
I don't have particularly large hands, but they're not small either. Most peripherals appear to be made for short people, but we grow tall under the searing sun of the land downunder.
On another note cause there are already a lot a good responses here and there :p.
How are your beavers doing? 😀
Never ask a lady about her beaver(s).
My beavers have wet fur, and a variety of things to play on.
🤣 !