That's a surprise. I was expecting keys 433% as large as ordinary ones. It could be for a person who types with feet, arm stumps, or elbows. It could be for a person in protective gear. It could be for a trained animal. It could be for entertainment, such as by hitting the keys from a distance to win a carnival prize.
433% Keyboard
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Re: 433% Keyboard
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can keep the normal layout on a 40%, you just wouldn't have number/function/nav keys without layers 40% is not just plank, and I personally find the ergonomics of a plank board to be rather bad compared to staggered, unless it's split.
I definitely agree with you here, I like split ortho a lot (I'm typing this on an ergodox) but I'm super doubtful of any benefit for non-split orthos. My arms don't sprout from the center of my chest!
I actually prefer non-split orthos but with a split layout. What
I mean with that is something similar to split keyboards but
angled and within one case. This is still very ergonomic but
more portable. Combined with columnar stagger and reduced to
about 42 keys I find it extremely comfortable to type on.
Re: 433% Keyboard
#83Hate to be that person, but I'm surprised people like mech keyboards. I ordered one, hated it so much, I actually decided to return it. Too loud, too much force required to type. My ideal keyboard is the low-profile laptop keyboard, especially the thinkpad one, the one before chiclet keys became a fad.
There are different kinds of mechanical switches. Some of them much lighter than a typical membrane keyboard, so light in fact that you may accidentally press keys without realizing it. As for noisy keyboards, again, some switches can be noisy by design but others are silent.
As for profile, the ThinkPad keyboard is rather high profile for a laptop. I don't know of any low-profile mechanical keyboard but some switches have a short travel distance, ideal for gaming and fast typing.
BTW, the ThinkPad keyboard is available standalone if you like it. You may need to buy it secondhand if you want the original though.
Re: 433% Keyboard
#84This probably didn't make it to the western press
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#85So can you just bind arbitrary keys to arbitrary characters? Aren't there a limited number of codes (scan codes?) that the keyboard will send out?
There are a limited number of scancodes; defined by the USB standard. The annoying thing for keyboards is that the OS controls what scancode maps to what character and that makes it impossible to have certain keys. For example, you can't have an ! key. That is always Shift+1 (with a US layout, that is). QMK and other firmwares will let you make an ! key, but it's implemented by pressing shift, then pressing 1. So you…
I've thought about this a lot, because I've bumped up against that limitation a few times when customizing my Erogodox layout.
My conclusion: QMK could do this, or at least some firmware could do this. It's hard to come up with an eloquent way to express it, however.
But there's no a priori reason that pressing shift-1 couldn't be special-cased to instead send shift-2, yielding @. It's all being precomposed by the firmware, after all.
It's too bad, because I have a custom key for delete-back-word, and I want shift-thatkey to send delete-forward-word, but as you point out, I can't. But that's a limitation of QMK, not a fact of nature.
Re: 433% Keyboard
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this a troll? I mean, why make a custom keyboard with even one pause/break key, let alone... Three?
Did you consider that those keys aren't actually what it says on the labels because one-off keyboards with more than 100% of the standard layout have keys that no correct labeling exists for?
Did you consider that this project actually is a troll?
Re: 433% Keyboard
#87Is there a place a someone could go to buy something like this?
I have an old IBM F122. A 122-key keyboard is pretty much peak keyboard when it comes to easily purchased commercial offerings. The smaller less sturdy sibling of the F122, the M122 (yes, M as in model M) can still be purchased relatively easy, but then you lose about a kilo of weight, nicer switches and N-key rollover. The prices for model F keyboards are bonkers today though. Your option when it comes to a lot of k…
It's fairly easy to buy a "multimedia" European keyboard with 124 keys. It's somewhat harder, outwith Brazil, to get hold of a "multimidia" ABNT2 keyboard with 126 or more keys, but they are commercially available there, at least.
Here's one with 127 keys: https://mcinformatica.loja2.com.br/715631-Teclado-Multimidia...
Re: 433% Keyboard
#88What I need to know is: can I fit the whole thing into a SCRABBLE box for transport? Asking for a friend.
Re: 433% Keyboard
#89This probably didn't make it to the western press https://japan.googleblog.com/2010/04/google.html
Brilliant. I love the special keys for faces / emojis.
Re: 433% Keyboard
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you consider that those keys aren't actually what it says on the labels because one-off keyboards with more than 100% of the standard layout have keys that no correct labeling exists for?
Did you consider that this project actually is a troll?
Did you consider spending your nights and weekends building one to find out?