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Not observant myself, but best wishes to those of the faith. My first ever hand-wired keyboard was a Planck with an extra column.
Can't do these. For me, it's 100% or nothing. I need my numpad and spacing around the arrow keys.
I made a lot of my own boards, and the three I use the most are:
As fond as I am of this little guy, I just don't use it very often.
Would it be possible to have pictures of the boards you mentioned as well? You got me curious !
"TKL like". This one actually has a couple of siblings because it was not much more expensive to order extra aluminum plates.
Wow, some people will just not hear about living without their ISO enter, huh? 😉
Even though I didn’t quite fall in love with the general idea of ortho, I’m still pretty pleased with myself. Bigger enter, proper arrow keys, and no missing punctuation. Good compromise for a bit of extra pinky movement, and no reason you couldn’t just map it out as a as normal Planck with a trio of media keys or macros.
That is even 1 key less than I have. ^^ 39%?
There are people who daily the real thing, with 47 or 48 keys. I couldn't do it, even with this one visually preserving more of the "standard" layout. Turned out I liked building boards more than learning to use them.
I daily one with 42 keys and I almost never use 2 of them.
I’m guessing… Corne?
Something I cooked up, it's a regular horizontal staggered board but other than that very similar to the Corne indeed.
Were key-board ergonomics not invented until the 90's or something? A perfect grid for the key's is a nightmare to actually type on or use. This was figured out during the type-writer heyday.
Typewriters were staggered so that the mechanical arms wouldn't collide. Your finger bends out and back linearly. Personally I prefer split keyboards or ones like the Atreus that have each half angled out, this avoids having to bend your wrists. But either way keyboards with linear columns are more ergonomic than staggered columns.
I've bought the elvish keycaps myself and I find your Planck so damn elegant. Where did you buy it?
Thanks! My keycaps there are just Matcha clones from Ali Express, and I made the board myself from my 3D printer and a board of maple hard-wood that I had around.
I wired the switches to the Rasperry Pi Pico by hand. It is a little bit tall for a Planck, maybe 35mm with full-height keycaps, and to be honest I found I just prefer more keys and a regular column stagger, but I am fairly pleased at how the extra three keys make the layout easier for an "ortho noob".