433% Keyboard

Post by ZeroGravitas » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 5:16 PM UTC

Symbiote wrote: post #130

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #122

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Do you happen to have an opinion on the best split keyboard for someone who uses and likes a Kinesis Advantage but would like a more portable alternative? Or even suggestions on what I'd need to google to find opinions of people in that group?

This Reddit [1] might have some ideas. Anything 3D/dished like the Advantage isn't going to be very portable, just because of the bulk. I suspect many DIY versions are also fairly delicate, as a result of the 3D printing process. For a flat, split keyboard you could look for one where someone has already designed a case that goes some way to protecting the keys, or make such a case yourself. I wouldn't choose somethi…

Thank you!

Post by JdeBP » Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 7:54 AM UTC

dsr_ wrote: post #121

JdeBP wrote: post #92

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You haven't tried this yourself. I have. Keyboard maps are on the host, not on the keyboard. Engravings on the keytops are meaningless and are not what determine how a key is understood. A (for example) U.K. 105-key keyboard and a French 105-key keyboard just look like two 105-key keyboards with all the same keys to the host. Several common operating systems just combine all keyboard input from multiple plugged-in ke…

You're right, I haven't tried this. But my (unmentioned) approach was going to include using at least one fully programmable keyboard -- QMK or similar -- to send precisely the keycodes wanted.

It doesn't work that way. The USB HID usages (and PS/2 scancodes) are the same. There is one usage for the key at (say) D01, and the keyboard doesn't know or control whether it is "Q" or "A" or something else entirely. You cannot switch layouts on the keyboard, because the maps are on the host. Multiple keyboards with D01 engraved with different symbols will not actually vary anything, and all send the same thing across the wire.

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