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Re: Flux Keyboard

#191

Post by unxdfa »

Not a fan of the idea:

1. I don't look at a keyboard so there's not much point in making it look fancy.

2. I destroy keyboards in 12 months. Even good quality mechanical ones. I probably can't afford to own this.

3. It looks like bits are going to fall off it when I inevitably catch the edge of it moving from my mouse to my keyboard.

4. It doesn't have enough keys on it and the default positioned layout sucks.

5. It's got transparent bits. My backlit laptop keyboard already looks like a cat litter tray after a couple of weeks. This is going to require a lot of upkeep.

I think the only keyboard I actually like at the moment is the Cherry Stream SX TKL. Costs $26, feels like an old ThinkPad, has all the right keys in the right place, if you break you won't cry, no bits fall off it when you shake the crap out, it doesn't look like a Christmas tree on acid or ever like a cat litter tray. I had 11 keyboards to get to that and it was the cheapest one. Ugh.

Re: Flux Keyboard

#192

Post by muyuu »

> The keyboard will cost between US$299 - $350 after discounts for pre-orders with a retail price of US$450.

Re: Flux Keyboard

#193

Post by thih9 »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #92
mackrevinack wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i just want a trackpoint on every keyboard in general

shocking to me that so few keyboards implement this; maybe a patent issue?

Could be a demand thing.

Anecdotally, around 2010 I’ve worked for a company that used Thinkpad laptops, the majority of people would always choose touchpad over trackpoint.

Re: Flux Keyboard

#194

Post by nullnix »

vmoore wrote: post #99

Anyone have a specific keyboard they really enjoy using? For me it's a simple affair: Apple Wired Keyboard. I always liked thin keyboards with minimal travel / low profile keyboards.

I remain obsessed with / utterly dependent on my Maltron (contoured, two-hand, trackball). I have a Glove80 coming: let's see if it wins me over.

Re: Flux Keyboard

#195

Post by throwwwaway69 »

sho_hn wrote: post #50
shaunsingh0207 wrote: post #42

Earlier 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…

Very cool - I've been researching something nearly identical and it's nice to see your implementation of it. Unfortunately I'm not sure I want this bad enough for the $500 in hardware costs.

Re: Flux Keyboard

#196

Post by pmontra »

jetzzz wrote: post #94

The keyboard itself looks good but hardware vendors (including keyboard manufacturers) have a track record of making abysmal software. In fact, software should probably be their primary focus. From their FAQ it look like they want themselves to add support for every application. Will they have an SDK for other software vendors to add support to their applications? Being more open, e.g. making a github repo where anyo…

This keyboard is a computer. They should have built a server of some kind (REST API, whatever) to manage the keyboard and documented it. They could provide a client for Windows, Linux and Mac OS developers would have built one or many of them for their OSes.

Re: Flux Keyboard

#197

Post by pmontra »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #127

I 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 o…

You don't have to look at the keyboard. If you touch type the switch to emoji key, with a little training your muscle memory can type the right emoji for you and switch back to qwerty.

Re: Flux Keyboard

#198

Post by thomastjeffery »

pmontra wrote: post #197
thomastjeffery wrote: post #127

I 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 o…

You don't have to look at the keyboard. If you touch type the switch to emoji key, with a little training your muscle memory can type the right emoji for you and switch back to qwerty.

If I don't want to look at my keyboard, why have a display?

If I do want to look at my keyboard, why have it physically resemble a typewriter from 1800?

Re: Flux Keyboard

#199

Post by ryukafalz »

mickdarling wrote: post #28

I have used a LOT of custom keyboards, looking at an Ergodex DX1 on my shelf now. I wish this is something I could be confident in. but, them not treating the screen as a display I think significantly limits the utility of this. You have to go through their software to customize the screen, layout, and customizations. Many of us know how hit-and-miss esoteric keyboard software tends to be. If they stuck to making it…

> They are trying to tie up too much to their software which they will eventually stop supporting, like my DX1 paperweight.

This is precisely why I probably won't buy one despite it looking honestly very cool.

Hardware manufacturers these days seem to be allergic to telling their customers how to actually talk to their gadgets, in favor of proprietary bundles of software that inevitably go unsupported within a few years.

Re: Flux Keyboard

#200

Post by 1-more »

unxdfa wrote: post #191

Not a fan of the idea: 1. I don't look at a keyboard so there's not much point in making it look fancy. 2. I destroy keyboards in 12 months. Even good quality mechanical ones. I probably can't afford to own this. 3. It looks like bits are going to fall off it when I inevitably catch the edge of it moving from my mouse to my keyboard. 4. It doesn't have enough keys on it and the default positioned layout sucks. 5. It'…

> I destroy keyboards in 12 months. Even good quality mechanical ones.

Wait how? How do they fail? This is interesting to me.

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