I wish there was a version without the screen. I’m fine with blank keys, I’d even enjoy them.
Flux Keyboard
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#62As 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 on some mAgLeV hall effect switches! On that note, if you like magnets and/or keebs you might be interested in Void switches[0] -- 3D printable hall effect switches
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#63Am 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?
Or capacitance enabled keys so brushing across them performs touch input.
Would be really interesting. I'm sad that the Touchstream (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks) never got anywhere. Without sensing the keys it was really difficult to use, but the mix of keyboard and touch interface was nice.
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#64Is my decades long quest for a keyboard that can switch between space cadet lisp mode and APL finally coming to an end?? I hope so. Hyper super meta alpha!
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#65I 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/
Agreed. I'm also left handed and have my mouse to the left of the keyboard with the buttons swapped. It's amazingly effective.
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#66Always 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 times for the UHK are abysmal. I think it took almost a year to get my UHKv2. I spent some time searching for a similar product but couldn't find it. I don't think implementing that in software would be too hard, although it would not be cross platform like the UHK is.
Anyone know of "mouse with the keyboard" solutions?
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#67Giving 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.
Same here :). But original Optimus has a screen in each key. This technically similar to a later design https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/popularis/. Which also had a single big LCD and transparent keys on top of it.
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#68Am 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?
I want this but a joystick instead of a nub. More leverage
For when you need to mouse _really_ fast? Genuinely curious how more leverage would be beneficial
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#69The screen is the least interesting part of this for me and might actually be a negative. The mag lev switches, now that's cool.
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#70Giving 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.
Same here :). But original Optimus has a screen in each key. This technically similar to a later design https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/popularis/ . Which also had a single big LCD and transparent keys on top of it.
Elgato's Stream Deck is a more mainstream application of the same approach, with a single LCD under all of the keys.
The Stream Deck isn't doing anything particularly exotic with its key mechanism, though (from what I can tell, there's a frame between the LCD and buttons with the actual contacts on it; no Hall-effect sensors or anything like that).