A $14 “ergo” keyboard from surplus parts
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A $14 “ergo” keyboard from surplus parts
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#2$100 says we'll see this on Kickstarter within the month.
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#3This guy is a bit much between the hair, the kneeling chair, and the custom keyboard. And yet the world is undoubtedly better off for having people like him around, tinkering.
Hooray!
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#4I'm not sure how much keeping your wrists straight helps with RSI. When people thought it carpel tunnel syndrome the idea was to keep your wrists straight. The real problem seems to be the cheap rubber dome or scissor switches that only activate when you bottom out the keys.
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#5A more expensive but less error prone and a better looking solution would be extending the link between this split keyboard http://www.amazon.com/Kinesis-Freestyle-Solo-Ergonomic-Keybo...
I am frustrated with mine that I can't place the halves wider and was considering something similar.
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#6Well that's literally a hack.
On OS X though, https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ will, among many other features, share the state of modifier keys between keyboards. That way you don't need to get out the hack saw.
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#7I'm not sure how much keeping your wrists straight helps with RSI. When people thought it carpel tunnel syndrome the idea was to keep your wrists straight. The real problem seems to be the cheap rubber dome or scissor switches that only activate when you bottom out the keys.
Varies from person to person.
In my case switching from a regular mechanical to a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 at home and work completely relieved all the issues I was having with wrists and forearm pain.
Easily the best 100 quid I ever spent (for the pair).
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#8This guy is a bit much between the hair, the kneeling chair, and the custom keyboard. And yet the world is undoubtedly better off for having people like him around, tinkering. Hooray!
You are taking potshots at the way he looks? Congrats, you are a bullying asshole.
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#9Datahand are also an alternative to traditional keyboards: http://octopup.org/computer/datahand
Re: A $14 “ergo” keyboard from surplus parts
#10I'm not sure how much keeping your wrists straight helps with RSI. When people thought it carpel tunnel syndrome the idea was to keep your wrists straight. The real problem seems to be the cheap rubber dome or scissor switches that only activate when you bottom out the keys.
I did a radical switch to an Alphagrip keyboard, which is still membrane switches (as far as I can tell). No more random twinges of pain. The primary difference is that I no longer wrest my wrists on anything (even a gel type pad), but it could also be that I don't use as much force to activate the keys when my fingers are already there.