Looking at #keyboards again, keychron seems like the top option for customizable tenkeyless, any other suggestions?
I'd like something a bit more colorful than black, maybe pink. Thinking tenkeyless, not sure about the even smaller ones. I do use the arrow keys sometimes
This version features -12° backwards tilt instead of -3° and is thus a bit higher.
It also features 20° split angle instead of 12°, which feels much better. On the MS Ergonomic keyboard, which seems to also have only 12°, I actually also used an wider arm angle so so that finger movement is more isometric over the diagonally arranged keys.
The body was printed with resin and the threading hole diameter needed to be increased for glueing.
TIL. At least on my Android phone (SG21, default English US keyboard), long pressing the π key reveals options to enter Ω, Π, and μ.
But getting to the π key requires pressing two other keys first: "?123" to open the "numbers and punctuations" page, and then "=<" to open the "symbols page".
Painful navigation, but at least the option exists.
On the FFF side, 3 prints with 3 filaments failed, before I could pin down the reason for it (all our filaments needed drying)
On the resin side, 1 print had the wrong parameters and 2 prints with high clarity resin bent away from the support structure and thus assembling became inviable. Also I further destroyed one of those while trying to fit a threaded inset into it. 😅
Now the only question that matters: should I switch my keyboard layout at the same time, or is it a too big step to start with? For the moment, I’ve a boring classic Apple keyboard (which I don’t like, hence the Defy).
The QWERTY keyboard has become so powerful in creating the Right Side Bias that the names of babies have been shifted by the bias.
This and a massive amount of other bias created by typing rather then speaking has helped create the communications tragedy we have in 2020. #Keyboards#Keyboard
The QWERTY keyboard had a very deep impact across a number of areas.
Called the QWERTY effect and the Right Side Ratio/Bias and posits that essentially the mechanical load and cognitive load to reach certain keys make humans disfavor using those keys. #Keyboards#Keyboard
Built myself a #chrumm#Keyboard last week in standard configuration. (chrumm is actually a very cool parametric STL and PCB keyboard generator)
The goal was to see how I would do with isometric aligned keys.
So far, my experience has been great. No problem with the rectilinear layout per se.
The main annoyances so far focused on the missing F-key-row, the two missing keys on the left half that I need regularly and having to type '6' with the right hand instead of the left.