Any future plan to launch a split version of this?
I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
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Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
#342Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't have a cursor on the website. Is it just me? As soon as I click the link it simply goes invisible. I see some hover effects when I move around, though. Is this intended design as in "use your keyboard"? I mean I'd get the joke but it's a terrible idea ...
The site applies (for me) a custom cursor. Presumably it failed to load the graphic for you and thus you get no cursor at all.
I had thought we as a species had evolved past that particular design wart.
Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
#343I like it being low-profile. That's why I didn't buy ErgoDox. So all the best wishes to the author. But there are some tradeoffs why I probably not buy it. 1) I'd suggest a column of home/page up/page down/end (top to bottom in this order) on the right side, like some laptop makers do. They're very convenient. That's absolutely necessary for text editing or navigating in various windows. (Sure one can use combos, but…
I configured all my programmable keyboards to map Capslock to Fn and use Fn+WASD for cursors keys and Fn+Q for Home and Fn+E for End, so I think that dedicated keys are unnecessary. I cannot imagine using anything else anymore because it is so insanely convenient to press and hold down Capslock with my pinky finger and browse around text extremely fast. All my keyboards also map Fn+1 to copy and Fn+2 to insert text w…
But how do you press "shift+home" or "shift+pg up" to select a line or page? I tried this on Asus laptop 10 years ago, and IIRC it didn't work.
Another combo I use sometimes is "ctrl+shift+home/end" to select the text from cursor position to the very beginning/end.
Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
#344Thoughts: - Excellent job - The font choices are bold. They don’t appeal to me personally, but nice job. - The sunk/raised key caps look nice but I’m not sure how they would perform in practice. - I couldn’t tell from the website what the second switch on the site does. Maybe USB/Bluetooth? - My strong preference is a key command for switching from Bluetooth/USB, and that the keyboard keep both active for instant swi…
> My strong preference is a key command for switching from Bluetooth/USB, and that the keyboard keep both active for instant switching. The only keyboard I’ve found that does this well is the micropython-based M60.
Epomaker's keyboards also do this, at least my SK66 does. Fn+Space switches between wired/BT and Fn+[Z|X|C] switches between the three BT connections. It also flashes blue on the active connection so that you know you've switched into BT mode.
Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
#345The biggest disadvantage to switching to a split keyboard is seeing neat things like this come out, and then hearing my wrists say "it's too bad we're never letting you go back." I even have to travel with the damn thing now, if I'm planning on doing any serious coding...
It's the same here. As much as I'd love to go and use a keyboard like the one shown here, my split ortholinear board has done my wrists and shoulders a world of good. It's so much more comfortable than using any other standard keyboard.
Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
#346it's nice to see a dedicated low profile keyboard maker. I would love to see if it improves typing speed as well as making typing easier for long time typer by design.
Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
#347There's a lot of criticism in the comments here, some of it feels very negative. I can imagine reading it as the OP is quite demoralising. Personally I think what the OP has achieved is very impressive. The design looks beautiful, and there's a very "Apple-esque" feel to the website. I love that sustainability has been made a requirement as part of the design. I think some of the other comments give good feedback abo…
> The design looks beautiful
The numbers look ugly IMO, and they are also a lot bigger than the letters.
Other than that, it does look quite good.
Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
#348Web site advice: The spinning graphic is cool but it's very hard to get a decent look at the whole thing. I even tried clicking to pause it. It seems like all the pictures are partial or moving. As the keyboard goes: As others have noted, it would be really nice to see this design approach taken to a more full-sized standard keyboard. I think it's necessary to have some kind of tactile thing between function keys - a…
More Website advice: - the text is too big - Add padding to text and images - Add space between elements (look crowded) - too much moving stuff: Loose the marquee text Pictures and videos looks awesome, the product looks superb, love the concept of having different height for keys. Congratulations on your launch!
Everything is too big and zoom out is broken. Honestly it's completely unreadable to me. I'm not even exaggerating, I really cannot read the "Introducing..." sentence.
There's no way to get a full view of the keyboard layout. The only full image is vertical (wtf), spinning (wtf) and doesn't fit on my 27" monitor (wtf). I would almost be ok if zoom out worked, but it doesn't.
Update: writing this, I see now that the top image shows the full keyboard horizontally... for 1 full second. With no way to pause the animation. And it keeps spinning and spinning.
Also the mouse cursor is horrendous and unnecessary.
I feel like I would like the design of this keyboard (except for the font choice which I don't like at all), but the website refuses to show it to me. Too bad.
Also why is there a "shft" key instead of "shift"? Did the "i" not fit?
I'm not sure what the rotary encoder is for? What does it do?
Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
#349There's a lot of criticism in the comments here, some of it feels very negative. I can imagine reading it as the OP is quite demoralising. Personally I think what the OP has achieved is very impressive. The design looks beautiful, and there's a very "Apple-esque" feel to the website. I love that sustainability has been made a requirement as part of the design. I think some of the other comments give good feedback abo…
The problem is that these things are deeply personal. And this one is really, really close to what I'd want myself. Yet... I still wouldn't buy it. Here's what I'm using right now (actually I have the wireless version which they recently stopped producing): https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/keyb... But I couldn't deal without the trackpoint, which I use regularly for simple mouse actions even wh…
Can't you use the knob for volume control?
Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
I configured all my programmable keyboards to map Capslock to Fn and use Fn+WASD for cursors keys and Fn+Q for Home and Fn+E for End, so I think that dedicated keys are unnecessary. I cannot imagine using anything else anymore because it is so insanely convenient to press and hold down Capslock with my pinky finger and browse around text extremely fast. All my keyboards also map Fn+1 to copy and Fn+2 to insert text w…
But how do you press "shift+home" or "shift+pg up" to select a line or page? I tried this on Asus laptop 10 years ago, and IIRC it didn't work. Another combo I use sometimes is "ctrl+shift+home/end" to select the text from cursor position to the very beginning/end.
That sort of thing works much better with fully programmable keyboards/QMK. I always rebind my caps lock at the keyboard layer and all of the normal combos you would expect work perfectly.