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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 ProZsolt »

cantSpellSober wrote: post #589
tsuujin wrote: post #270

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I use a custom built corne keyboard which staggers the columns based on finger length, but not the rows. I don’t think I will ever go back to a standard layout keyboard after having used this for a few months. https://imgur.com/a/kEEIRhf to help visualize.

Cool, how'd you get started? Something like this still accurate? https://www.reddit.com/r/crkbd/comments/esv3i8/guide_corne_d...

Yes, I built my Corne using that.

If you won't like to source all the components yourself there are vendors who happy to sell you kits, but you can make 3-5 keyboards for that amount of money.

I suggest to use the Miryoku[1] layout.

[1]: https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku

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Post by JaneLovesDotNet »

Max-q wrote: post #326
JaneLovesDotNet wrote: post #151

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You know, it hadn't crossed my mind when I first browsed the page, but now that I've read your comment, it seems very likely that this is entirely an art concept with 0 progress made towards making it a real product. And I agree about your conclusion that this level of detail making it close to dishonesty, rather than faking till you make it. Hopefully you're wrong.

How can it be dishonesty when he doesn’t promise anything? He shows the product and invites you to get updates on the way forward. In addition both he and the electronics designer answer questions here.

I meant it would be dishonest only if it was a made up page with no progress made towards building it. Happy to hear that's not the case.

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

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Post by alanbernstein »

rodrigodlu wrote: post #116
alanbernstein wrote: post #67

Looks nice. I would not call this "ultra low profile". That isn't really possible with mechanical switches. Even with mechanical switches, there are alternatives that are thinner, like the keytron/keychron line. The k1 would be the perfect keyboard for me, if it actually worked reliably. Like someone else said, it's not easy to gauge the size of this one from the graphics on the landing page.

I'm considering a k1, what kind of reliability issues you're talking about? I'm using an MX Keys with the Logitech dongle, it's slick without any lag (except sometimes when I have multiple Bluetooth connected things nearby + 20 visible Wi-Fi networks from my neighbors, then I can just make sure the dongle is closer). But using the Bluetooth mode it's only as slick connecting to MacBooks, or to specific Wi-Fi/Bluetoot…

I don't know if the problem is mechanical or electronic, but my keytron k1 frequently misses and repeats keypresses. It's really not usable for me.

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Post by alecfreudenberg »

cantSpellSober wrote: post #609
alecfreudenberg wrote: post #386

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Volume, Zoom, Digital Audio Production knobs, Video/Photoshop timeline or level controls, Gaming, Productivity macro (context switching, app switching, Brightness Anything that benefits from fine tuned 'back and forth' adjustments that settle on a value in a range. It's often more satisfying to have 'one motion' control of these functions rather than repeated 'up down' clicks to achieve a desired range. With a rotary…

Yep, imagine replacing a guitar's whammy bar with a rotary jog dial; not the same

Oh damn. my take-way is that my keyboard needs a whammy bar now.

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vladvasiliu wrote: post #333
unsafecast wrote: post #232

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I have a K2 as well. I set it in Windows/Android mode to use with my Linux box (Mac just changes the modifier keys afaict). The F-keys default to the FN row, not the F1-12. You can change that with a command I completely forgot and just copied once to a startup script.

> The F-keys default to the FN row, not the F1-12. You can change that with a command I completely forgot and just copied once to a startup script. > cat /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf options hid_apple fnmode=0 I think this has recently (Linux v5.19) changed to have F1-F12 by default.

I just looked in my startup and this is what I have:

    echo 0 | doas tee /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode
But it's good to know where the permanent configuration lives, thanks!
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