Why hasn't this caught on yet? Tiny little OLED displays have been around for a while, and we could standardize a layout that is independent of the glyphs on each key just as ISO/ANSI/etc have...
What's the hold up?
Flux Keyboard
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
E-ink is extremely expensive, especially at the size of a keyboard like that. Memory LCD would be more practical, but at that point the lcd costs the same and offers more power for those who want it. There isn't anything stopping you from making the entire screen black except for the legends, probably
True dat. I recently made this for my home, as a once-a-day automatic newspaper deco thingie (ticking all the latest hype boxes: wrote a custom Rust driver for the EPD controller, and it's now also using the ChatGPT API to trim and style-transfer articles and headlines -- this and also various layout/typography improvements not yet in that album): https://imgur.com/a/PqkhdGd $400+shipping for the display panel (a com…
I was recently messing around with a very small eink display (and used it to display HN posts somewhat similar in concept to you). Out of curiosity, what display is that/where did you source it from?
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#124> Each key is magnetically suspended with rare earth magnets allowing them to be 97% transparent and ultra low friction. Each switch has 4mm of travel and will be available in linear and tactile variants. They also feature a software adjustable actuation point in 0.1mm increments and rapid trigger functionality through analog hall effect sensing. Ok sign me up.
I don't like low travel distances personally :(
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
the 3 modern higher end keyboard companies that attend to ergonomic concerns are, afaik, - keyboard.io - kinesis - ergodox and then there's maltron keyboards, a bit older-school. I have a kinesis edge and a keyboard.io, I like the kinesis edge rgb variant. the keyboard.io is very hard for me.
keyboard.io keyboards look really uncomfortable for long-term use, what with that hard wood looking enclosure. Ergodox and kinesis both do that weird split keyboard thing. All put other buttons below the thumb which I am not sure about. Can someone just please make a high-quality MS Natural Ergonomic 4000? Mine is getting worn out. edit- holy shit it looks like MS reintroduced it! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/mi…
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> Nevertheless, if there were a world where amazing products suddenly snapped out of existence and were replaced with husks of their former selves, it would be this keyboard. Oh, right. That is this world.
Amazon review of the latest gen ergo keyboard.
If ms does a MS Natural 4001 or whatever, a genuine successor, I'll probably buy 3. It was _really_ nice.
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#127I think it's the wrong move to make this a keyboard, particularly a traditional typewriter layout.
My main question is: can the hall effect sensors be read as variable states instead of boolean keypresses? That could be really cool, especially with the display for real-time feedback. I can think of so many use cases: change the volume that hard. WASD like a joystick.
It would be even cooler if they were in an even orthogonal grid pattern like a planck keyboard. That would be a lot like the impact-pressure sensitive controllers that are popular in audio work.
I would love something like that too use as a macro pad: keys that have arbitrary meaning you can reference. Keys that behave differently depending on context, and show you the context in real-time. That would be incredibly useful.
But my keyboard itself? I don't want to look at that. That place is for muscle memory alone.
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#128Finally an evolution of the keyboard People hated on Apple for the touch bar, but this is the natural evolution of the keyboard, why stick to fixed physical keys when you can have them digitalized to be context aware The problem will be the price Mechanical keyboard market already is a scam where 90% of products are greatly overpriced, that will not encourage them to offer a reasonable price unfortunately EDIT: The k…
Are you kidding, I saw a mouse the other day selling for two hundred bucks. Provided that by some miracle this has a good keyboard feel, I can imagine entire shops switching over to this in specialized industries, plus loads of gamers, translators, people wanting it as a status symbol. It could even be something of a security measure by obfuscating the keys during login. Even perhaps a laptop manufacturer can license…
It's no wonder companies out there have an insane burn rate, something important got lost in the process
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#129As far as I know the "other times this has been tried" all have had individual displays (and controllers) in each key. The difference being that here there is just one panel under the whole board with most of the parts above the display being transparent. This approach should be far less complicated to build, more robust and cheaper. Honestly, I don't think I need an LCD in my keyboard but I'd quite like to have a go…
Are there actual custom keyboard PCPs and controllers that support these? That would be pretty damn cool to have a maglev keyboard.
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#130I would really like it if these fancypants keyboards came in a layout other than the crunch-all-your-fingers-together-in-the-middle-for-extra-RSI design that the keyboard nerds seem to adore
I feel like you're out of the loop when it comes to keyboard nerds. Check out the dactyl-manuform [0]. The days of tiny 40/60 keyboards are gone, they aren't cool anymore (joking of course, use what you want).