this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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Mechanical Keyboards

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This looks so inconvenient. Glad you like it, but this is 'awful taste, great execution" for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'll make it even worse for you... It's setup for Dvorak.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Well that’s just sensible unlike the rest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Possibly the only good thing about this lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Wow, when I first opened the image it was squished to 50% width, each key looked like a piano key. That was a real wtf moment.

Beautiful looking keyboard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I love it, exactly what I want to build

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Serious question: How do you type on flat profile without having your hands hurt? I could never get use to flat keys and spherical work the best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know how to answer you exactly. My hands don't hurt. Maybe it's because of the combo of the ortholinear keyboard and the Dvorak layout causing me to move my fingers minimally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Not OP, but I also use flat keycaps, so I thought I'd chime in. I'm not really sure why your hands would hurt with flat keycaps, but one of the reasons I chose to use flats were to allow for easier chording with Plover.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Has a 3d printed feel from the photo. Did you make the whole thing, case, pcb, keycaps?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, the keyboard is a kit you can get on Amazon, or Mass Drop. The keycaps were novelty caps from Pimp My Keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks nice! I daily drove something like this for a couple of years, then transitioned to a split ortholinear layout, so a bit different but pretty much the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I want to move on to a split ortholinear too

[–] Mivey 1 points 2 years ago

Like the look. I really want to give ortho a try one day. On some level, it is what keyboards should have been all along. The current shifted design was just due to technical limitations, where you needed to shift the keys to make sure old type writers could work. This day and age, it's just a historical holdover.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hot swappable? I'm wondering if the sockets are what make the keys sit slightly off square and even, couldn't be the key caps could it?