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Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by stavros »

cyberax wrote: post #80
danielfalbo wrote: post #79

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From their youtube channel description: > Our goal is to create fun and engaging videos. I wonder whether they are more into video-making or tech.

Yes. I've been watching them in Chinese for a while. Their video production evolved through the years by leaps and bounds. Their technical skill also skyrocketed. But it started as a channel with technical reviews and some DIY. If you want to try to watch their videos with AI translation, you can try this: https://space.bilibili.com/163637592 For example, an artificial flower made of memory metal: https://www.bilibil…

That looks really interesting, but there's a ton of text flying over the video and it's making it hard to actually see what's going on in the image. Is there a way to disable that?

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by stavros »

scatbot wrote: post #18

From the submission title I expected some kind of chorded keyboard. This is just a tiny regular keyboard. What a bummer. This reminds me how I once spend months trying to track down a Frogpad for a cyberpunk-inspired wearable computing project. I found one on eBay but got outbid at the last second. It still hurts a little.

Wouldn't it be easier to make a Frogpad?

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by rjzzleep »

r0b05 wrote: post #99
rjzzleep wrote: post #68

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I recently learned that it's not just the switch, but also the gasket, so the switch plate material, the foam layers and even the keycap itself. I built two different split keyboards recently with the same simple Kailh box red v2 switch and they sound and feel completely different just because of the thickness of the switch plate and the type of keycaps I use.(check this for example https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HIl…

Thanks for the info. A split keyboard sounds awesome.

You can get really cheap boards on taobao, for sofle, lily58, corne(all 3 are open source/open hardware) keyboards. You can of course also get prebuilt ones with or without switches for cheap if you want to. But in today's world, if you have tools and access to a 3d printer you can get a board for a few bucks some components and finish the whole thing with good switches and keycaps for 20-30 dollars.

It's a fun experience, and a nice reason to play around with SMD soldering techniques. I had my daughter (4 years) solder the hotswap sockets.

Worth checking out the miryoku layout, which is optimized for small keyboards, where I recently added sensor bindings for ec11 encoders[1].

[1] https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku_zmk/pull/116

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by cyberax »

stavros wrote: post #101
cyberax wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. I've been watching them in Chinese for a while. Their video production evolved through the years by leaps and bounds. Their technical skill also skyrocketed. But it started as a channel with technical reviews and some DIY. If you want to try to watch their videos with AI translation, you can try this: https://space.bilibili.com/163637592 For example, an artificial flower made of memory metal: https://www.bilibil…

That looks really interesting, but there's a ton of text flying over the video and it's making it hard to actually see what's going on in the image. Is there a way to disable that?

Yes, you just need to click on the button with the "弹" character right below the video (it's appropriately called "barrage of bullets").

Re: One Handed Keyboard

#105

Post by rrrrrrrrrrrryan »

I played with a few alternative keyboard layouts in high school, and I can say from personal experience that it's surprisingly easy to adapt to a one handed mirror layout. You just hold a designated modifier key with your thumb then the whole keyboard flips. Took just a couple days to get to like 80% of my normal typing speed.

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by TinyBig »

If you already know how to touch type, I recommend using software to mirror your keyboard when the spacebar is held down. I lacked the use of my dominant arm for a few months while recovering from an injury, and by week 3, mirroring no longer required conscious thought.

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by fallat »

392 wrote: post #98
fallat wrote: post #63

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I want to pull the trigger on this so badly. I've had my eyes on it for years. It seems the best way to increase typing speed is to reduce finger movement via physical modifications to a keyboard. Does charachorder support Dvorak-like layout mentally? Not a 1-1 but something similar? Like vowels on left hand?

The best way to speed up is to practice. Alternative layouts are a waste of time unless you're trying to fix an ergonomic / pain issue, and even then the board itself and your technique and lifestyle are more important. I type faster than any Dvorak user I've met and I did nothing make that happen except be impatient. But typing is basically over with now that Whisper is a single button press away.

I use Dvorak, so I'm asking to maybe make the transition easier LOL.

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by cons0le »

piskov wrote: post #86
cons0le wrote: post #53

If anyone's interested in something way faster that still lets you go one handed. Take a look at the charachorder. You can type one handed, or easily rip 200wpm with 2 hands. But it does take like a year to get fast. I was coming from a moonlander tho so I was ready

Year seems not worth it: all the time spent on learning just won’t pay off unless you’re a school or college student

every time I send an entire email template with one keystroke, it's worth it. Maybe not for everyone, but for people that are basically at their computer all day everyday, its great. Sentences, paragraphs, macros, templates, everything can be just 1 keystroke.

Granted, I used to be able to do this with custom firmware on the moonlander, but with the charachorder it feels more smooth

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by piskov »

cons0le wrote: post #108
piskov wrote: post #86

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Year seems not worth it: all the time spent on learning just won’t pay off unless you’re a school or college student

every time I send an entire email template with one keystroke, it's worth it. Maybe not for everyone, but for people that are basically at their computer all day everyday, its great. Sentences, paragraphs, macros, templates, everything can be just 1 keystroke. Granted, I used to be able to do this with custom firmware on the moonlander, but with the charachorder it feels more smooth

Ain’t the same is true with keyboard layers. Nothing prevents you to create, let’s say, capslock+q to insert one ting, capslock+w — another, etc.

Basically this is how keyboards like “ultimate hacking keyboard” and what have you work: record arbitrary keystorkes, macros.

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