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Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by bityard »

1-more wrote: post #200
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.

Same here, I don't think I've _ever_ destroyed a keyboard in my life. After about a decade on one, I just get tired of it and want to try something new.

Right now my favorite is the wired Apple Magic keyboard with numpad. I bought my current one new on ebay during covid at a big of a premium because they stopped making them years ago and are NLA. I don't use a Mac so the layout is funky, but all of the standard-layout knock-offs are bluetooth-only, have poor reviews, or are staggeringly expensive.

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by galkk »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #10

Am I the only person who wants a Thinkpad type trackpad-button in the middle of the keyboard so I don't have to move over to the mouse or trackpad?

If you will use QMK powered keyboard (or similar) you can even map mouse movements to the keys [1], so you won't move from keyboard at all. On my keyboard, I have wasd style mouse movement on ijkl keys, and it works quite well.

[1]: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/docs/feature...

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by klausa »

1-more wrote: post #200
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.

Not the OP, but I probably go through a Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic every 24-36 months. The wrist-rest also gets gross after a while.

Mostly it's spills, but sometimes also a crumb or something stuck under a key and me breaking the switch in the process of trying to clean it.

I think I also have one where I just physically lost the wireless dongle. I have some spare ones from the _other_ ones I killed, but AFAICT they're "securely" paired at the factory and there's no way to reprogram those.

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by hysan »

Cool concept but unusable for me due to the shortened right shift key. I dislike how so many custom keyboards like cutting that key to save a tiny bit of space. To me, it ruins the ergonomics and feels like it’s placing form over function.

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by unxdfa »

1-more wrote: post #200
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.

Well the mechanical keyboards, the key caps start falling off and won't stay on or the crappy lead free solder gives out on the keyswitches. The rubber dome ones, the rubber domes wear out and crap gets in and then it's end of the road. The ones that survive that tend to find out they have a coffee allergy.

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by dividuum »

nahuel0x wrote: post #170
freedomben wrote: post #66

Always great to see innovation in the keyboard space! Looks like a pretty neat product. I was hoping to see some sort of mouse layer or mouse control like on the UHK. The UHK totally transformed how I use my desktop. I literally don't even have a mouse to plug in now if I wanted to because it's been so many years since I needed it. If the UHK ever broke or went out of business, I'd be in a world of hurt. Shipping tim…

How do you control the mouse using the UHK?

The default way is like this: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/manuals/uhk60/mouse. Additionally there are addon modules for a trackpoint, touchpad or trackball (https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/shop)

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by dogma1138 »

shaunsingh0207 wrote: post #42
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.

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

Yet E-ink is cheap enough for price tags at big box stores…?

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by snapplebobapple »

qwery wrote: post #62

As far as I know the "other times this has been tried" all have had individual displays (and controllers) in each key. The difference being that here there is just one panel under the whole board with most of the parts above the display being transparent. This approach should be far less complicated to build, more robust and cheaper. Honestly, I don't think I need an LCD in my keyboard but I'd quite like to have a go…

It's basically a big streamdeck...
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