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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

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Post by nxdmum »

thegeomaster wrote: post #297
nxdmum wrote: post #222

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I was consistently hitting 40-50 on MonkeyType - but while transporting the keyboard - i damaged it a bit. so now out of touch. I was practising about 20 mins every day for about 50 days - with misses on days when i had a lot of work. But i know that my speed would increase. Now when i see words - i can see the trigrams and I can visually break them down. I am confident i would be able to reach 70 if i practice more.…

Interesting. To me, even 70 sounds quite low compared to the effort involved, and probably more mentally taxing. Out of curiosity, what is your motivation behind the experiment?

NoThisIsJohn typing at 200+ words per minute:

https://youtu.be/oOdfefV2R1I

Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

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Post by ebastler »

dom96 wrote: post #617
aemerson_ wrote: post #579

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As @yeutterg says below it is possible to self certify CE. For prototyping the body, I initially 3d printed it, then moved to 1 off cnc milling. For this I mostly used Geomiq (geomiq.com), which farms it out to various countries (mostly china from what I can tell), then they make it and send it to you. I plan to have the case manufactured in the UK — I found contacts for this because I happen to work in the automotiv…

That's great! Thanks for the info, Geomiq looks brilliant. If you could go into more detail on the CE self certification that would be awesome. How did you figure out what testing you need to perform on the product to complete the self certification? The biggest source of confusion for me is this aspect of it. Sure I can self certify that all is good, but how can I be certain that I am not missing something that will…

Some wifi/ble modules come pre-certified. The holyiot 18010 (nRF52840) on the prototype comes with FCC/RoHS certs from the factory, so at least the Bluetooth part is "guaranteed" to be conform, and everything else is so simple, it won't cause any relevant EMI either way (esp. not inside a metal shell).

Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

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Post by ebastler »

tenebrisalietum wrote: post #328
harel wrote: post #286

It's a beautiful keyboard, no doubt, and I'm sure a lot of care and thought went into making it. For me, having no page up/down buttons (and you do have space for them), is a deal breaker. I can forgive the weird mac-like squiggle button on the top left although it's completely useless to me (and most people I assume), but not the lack of Page Up/Down. I actually use those.

I have a Chromebook where Page Up/Page Down is Alt-Up Arrow and Alt-Down Arrow. It might be the OS doing that mapping, rather than the keyboard (have never really investigated). Works OK.

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Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

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Post by crimsoneer »

therealdrag0 wrote: post #531
akpa1 wrote: post #345

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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.

Which keyboard are you using?

I use a moonlander and am never going back

Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

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Post by evnix »

I wouldn't use this at all!

Yeah it looks nice and may feel nice for the first 30 minutes and may fetch some nice compliments from the co-workers.

but i would want a wide comfortable and ergonomic split keyboard instead, which won't push me to slouch and force my wide shoulders in an uncomfortable position for the next 8 hours. split keyboard and a trackball mouse are must these days with all kinds of wrist, shoulder and back pain problems.

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