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Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by dkersten »

anoonmoose wrote: post #17
__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #11

I prefer blank keycaps. Better for posture and focus to not be looking at your keyboard all the time. Also, maintaining the need to see your keys clearly puts arbitrary limits on tent angle. I would appreciate something which could understand both my keyboard firmware and whichever app has focus, and summon a hotkey helper on screen which mirrored my key layout.

I've been using a blank Das Keyboard [1] at work for years. Besides all of the benefits you've listed, I've also found that it's the most effective deterrent for keeping people off my desk/off my computer that I've ever deployed. [1] https://www.daskeyboard.com/daskeyboard-4-ultimate/

I used a blank DAS to learn to touchtype. I now use a non-blank Kinesis Advantage2, but it has qwerty keycaps while all my devices are colemak so it has a similar effect to blank with the added bonus of confusing other people even more because the keycaps don’t match what is typed.

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by [deleted] »

sj4nz wrote: post #9

This is interesting... but I can't help but think how much better it might be if instead of a video background just had a simpler e-ink display for indicating what the transparent key caps were for. The animation/videos are very distracting. I never liked the Apple TouchBar or anything that required "active" attention away from the main screen.

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Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

anoonmoose wrote: post #17
__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #11

I prefer blank keycaps. Better for posture and focus to not be looking at your keyboard all the time. Also, maintaining the need to see your keys clearly puts arbitrary limits on tent angle. I would appreciate something which could understand both my keyboard firmware and whichever app has focus, and summon a hotkey helper on screen which mirrored my key layout.

I've been using a blank Das Keyboard [1] at work for years. Besides all of the benefits you've listed, I've also found that it's the most effective deterrent for keeping people off my desk/off my computer that I've ever deployed. [1] https://www.daskeyboard.com/daskeyboard-4-ultimate/

Yep, I may have gotten carried away with that. There's nothing so uniquely mine as this: https://imgur.com/a/vXLX4RA

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by kristopolous »

Glad people are trying to do something new!

I really like how it's Not derivative. It doesn't look like an Apple knockoff product or some other coattail riding project. Refreshing.

Keep at it! This is the kind of innovation we need!

Re: Flux Keyboard

#27

Post by zoklet-enjoyer »

adolph wrote: post #19
von_lohengramm wrote: post #7

This is exactly what I've been dreaming of ever since Hall effect switches came back. It's very reminiscent of the old school Zboard keyboard that had physical overlays tailored towards specific games. This digital approach seems a touch more scalable.

Also that the keys are "maglev" 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. The keys contain magnets along their peri…

I have a magnet in the pad of my left ring finger. This keyboard would likely be uncomfortable for me

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by mickdarling »

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 an external display managed by the OS, polling the keyboard layout from the OS, and maybe just have their app apply custom functions like emojis and tool graphics I would have some confidence.

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

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by qubex »

ics wrote: post #3

Giving me major nostalgia for the Optimus Maximus ( https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/ ) keyboard and its successors. This one looks like an interesting take now that displays are even higher resolution, have haptic feedback, etc.

Also came here to say this — I wanted to love the Optimus Maximus (perhaps because of a bad case of buyer’s regret generating a counter-force to maximise cognitive dissonance) but as a keyboard it was awful.

(Combined it with a BMW-designed Level 10 case; quite the looker but monumental and monumentally oversized.)

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by baybal2 »

von_lohengramm wrote: post #7

This is exactly what I've been dreaming of ever since Hall effect switches came back. It's very reminiscent of the old school Zboard keyboard that had physical overlays tailored towards specific games. This digital approach seems a touch more scalable.

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