Happy 40s Day!
Happy 40s Day!
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:
- One that's basically a "Tenkeyless", but I keep an external numpad nearby.
- One that has a numpad but everything's kind of compressed and I use "Fn+number" to get the F keys. That one has a speck of UV resin on down-arrow so I can find it without looking.
- One that is still a bit compact in layout, but has 117 keys, including a big red industrial pushbutton and a volume knob.
As fond as I am of this little guy, I just don't use it very often.
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.
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".