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Can a 3D printed keyboard last three years?

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Re: Can a 3D printed keyboard last three years?

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It looks like you've devised a way to mount your keyboard to the armrests of a Herman Miller Mirra chair: https://danwilkerson.com/static/92bcd474239a7f376b33d3be05d4...

Would you mind posting a couple more pictures of the mounts from different angles? I have the same chair and would really like to have it setup the same way!

Re: Can a 3D printed keyboard last three years?

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It looks like you've devised a way to mount your keyboard to the armrests of a Herman Miller Mirra chair: https://danwilkerson.com/static/92bcd474239a7f376b33d3be05d4... Would you mind posting a couple more pictures of the mounts from different angles? I have the same chair and would really like to have it setup the same way!

Take a look at this post and if you need more info send me an email!

https://danwilkerson.com/posts/2022-02-20-the-captains-chair

Re: Can a 3D printed keyboard last three years?

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Not even a permanent drawer?

I worked at companies that had 'clean desk' policies. No desk, no drawer, no nothing for questionable benefit (it was touted as a security policy).

The ones that I've worked at still allowed you to keep your things in a locked drawer. I'm surprised to hear there are places that don't even allow that much.

Re: Can a 3D printed keyboard last three years?

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post #10

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Not even a permanent drawer?

I worked at companies that had 'clean desk' policies. No desk, no drawer, no nothing for questionable benefit (it was touted as a security policy).

In such companies it should be straightforward to request a particular keyboard for health reasons (risk of RSI). If you're lucky you can get exactly what you want, at worst it would be a Kinesis Advantage or Maltron.

Re: Can a 3D printed keyboard last three years?

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The layers do take a bit of time to get used to, but they become transparent, after a while. As for punctuation locations, I've exploited that to my advantage, I have brackets and braces (which I use a lot of, for Clojure) just next to my left ring and middle finger, and parenthesis are also trivially reachable, of course. (all this on a Dactyl Manuform, with 46 keys total)

It's great that layers work fine for you. But they may not work for other person. Other person may not want to invest his time into learning layers. Or he also has to use a normal keyboard with standard shortcuts. Or there may be any other reason. Market is definitely missing a full split keyboard (87+ keys). I'm also looking for one and I hate using keyboards with reduced number of keys.

This isn't totally up to date, but it might help: https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/

(My site.)

Re: Can a 3D printed keyboard last three years?

#26

Would love to build one one day. I started building a custom KB, but moved house, packed away the 3d printer, etc, and never got back to it. Settled on a Kinesis Freestyle Edge in the meantime and it's.. ok. I'm not in love with it. The config software is ghastly, too. Though it's hard to find split mech KBs that haven't dropped a lot of keys in favour of layers, or haven't moved keys like [] away from their original…

Search for "tenkeyless" aka TKL. Plenty of good ones on the market. IKBC historically had good quality.
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