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#142I wish DataHand was still made. The 3d printed keyboard based on DataHand looks very interesting but right now I don't have time to invest into making custom hardware. I wish I could just buy something similar!
You can sometimes snatch it off of eBay for $800-$1500.
Of course making a lalboard from scratch might end up being cheaper in the end.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does but only to 15 degrees, goldtouch tents to 30 which makes it more comfortable (to me). It’s not perfect and as I say I’m sure there’s something better, but the kenesis is not it if you like your hands closer to neutral (less rotated) as you type.
Kinesis has a tenting kit that goes from 20 to 90 degrees in 10 degree steps. Again separate purchase which would need to be taken into account, but given my experience with their other products, it still sounds like a superset of the Goldtouch in many ways, I'm guessing it has a wider community for mods etc as well.
Can you link this tent kit? The official one doesn’t seem to do that much. I am in the market for new options so I’d be happy to try that out.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
I switched to a Moonlander from an Ergodox and am liking it. I ended up not liking their built-in tenting mechanism, so 3D printed my own shims that screw to the back, allowing me to tent the keyboard but also tilt the "wings" upwards. Very comfortable! One thing I thought I hated about the Ergodox was how inaccessible the small keys on the thumb cluster were, and I thought I would like 3 big keys better. It turns ou…
I’ve been looking at the Moonlander and the tenting is what’s holding me up. Do you have a file for those shims you made that I could use? And how did you bolt those things on? Are there screw holes on the back?
Yeah, there are 4 M2.5 threaded holes on the back, precisely for mounting your own stands. (The subreddit seems to think that some first-party things that screw in there are on the way. In the meantime, I'm happy with my own.)
Here is a Thingiverse link: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4769961
There are caveats mentioned on the Thing page. I measured the screw spacing imprecisely and you will have to pick your favorite diagonal to put 2 of the 4 screws in ;) You'll also have to mirror the file to print one for the other hand.
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#145I like the idea of a split keyboard, but I've never been able to go down that road because I sometimes hit keys with the "wrong" finger - most notably, I need to be able to hit B with my right hand because it's down-left in roguelikes (i.e. Nethack). What I'd love to see is a "106% keyboard", where a couple columns are duplicated on both the left/right side. Does anybody make such a keyboard?
> What I'd love to see is a "106% keyboard", where a couple columns are duplicated on both the left/right side. Does anybody make such a keyboard? I've seen some where the '6' is present on both the left and right-hand side of a split keyboard but '6' is really the one and only key on which there can be a disagreement as to where is the correct placement. On non-staggered keyboard the '6' is, of course, on the right…
Strange. I type with 10 fingers since 20 years or so (self-learned with some programs back then) and actually my only real problem comes from the number row since it just doesn't come to me intuitively, like it's simply wrong (and yes, i don't type numbers really often - that's also why I wouldn't agree with your reasoning that the 6 is responsible for a hard time adapting, since the 6 will simply not be typed very often for non-accountants. If you had said C/V/B, I'd agree). Only now that I've seen the Atreus62 I've come to believe that the number row (and C,V,B) are simply wrong on a standard keyboard. They simply don't work as they should be. At least for me personally.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've also been enjoying the Moonlander. I was hesitant about the layout, but spilling liquid on my Kinesis Edge and damaging one of the switches forced my hand. The first few weeks were slow going (I dropped from 140wpm to 50-60), but I adapted fast enough. I haven't measured in a while, but I feel like I'm fully back to speed. I love the customizability - I started with a layout that was influenced by 3 or 4 other p…
Could you share your layout? I also recently started using a Moonlander. I can currently type around 40-50 WPM, but it's getting better.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kinesis has a tenting kit that goes from 20 to 90 degrees in 10 degree steps. Again separate purchase which would need to be taken into account, but given my experience with their other products, it still sounds like a superset of the Goldtouch in many ways, I'm guessing it has a wider community for mods etc as well.
Can you link this tent kit? The official one doesn’t seem to do that much. I am in the market for new options so I’d be happy to try that out.
https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/freestyle2-keyboard/
At the bottom it lists the 3 different tenting kits:
5, 10, 15 degrees 5, 10, 15 degrees with wrist rests 20 - 90 degrees
https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/freestyle2-keyboard/
https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-v3-accessory/
https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-vip3-accessory/
https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-ascent-accessory/
The first two addons are available for the Freestyle Pro, but not the 20-90 degree tenting, which is incompatible with that and the bluetooth version of the Freestyle 2 (due to the metal plate interfering with the signal)
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#148Though it's been out of production for 15 or 20 years, the Kinesis Evolution belongs in here. I have a chair-mount model that still works.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried mounting my Ergodox EZ to my chair like you (almost exactly too: 3D printed mount + gorillapod). I found the TRRS cable between the halves to be very very annoying to get in and out of the chair. How did you solve that problem? I once tripped and broke the mount (PLA is brittle) when I went to answer my intercom.
I bought a long TRRS cable and ran it behind the chair.
d'oh?!
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#150I like the idea of a split keyboard, but I've never been able to go down that road because I sometimes hit keys with the "wrong" finger - most notably, I need to be able to hit B with my right hand because it's down-left in roguelikes (i.e. Nethack). What I'd love to see is a "106% keyboard", where a couple columns are duplicated on both the left/right side. Does anybody make such a keyboard?
> What I'd love to see is a "106% keyboard", where a couple columns are duplicated on both the left/right side. Does anybody make such a keyboard? I've seen some where the '6' is present on both the left and right-hand side of a split keyboard but '6' is really the one and only key on which there can be a disagreement as to where is the correct placement. On non-staggered keyboard the '6' is, of course, on the right…
I have two split keyboard that have "6" on left and on right. It's confusing but not a serious problem after I've get used to. I still mistype the empty space instead of "6" key, but what should I do is just type it on other hand.