That's a pretty good point (with layout I meant both colemak and ortholinearity (is that a word?)). I do think it's additional work to learn colemak on a standard keyboard, but I guess you could go for it if you think it would pay off. I just prefer having the same keyboard for all my computers.
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From my experience:
- I typed around 60 WPM before on a standard keyboard, now it's barely 25. It may be because I don't use standard keyboards at all anymore though.
- I learnt colemak with my first split keyboard since it seemed like if I was going to learn a new layout, then I should commit to it entirely. I think keeping AZERTY (since I'm french baguette haha) would have just made me even slower on standard keyboards because there wouldn't be much difference with my normal workflow. Separating the two layouts entirely seems better to me, but you might also say keping the same layout to some extent is better.
- I went from a full-size keyboard to my monkeyboard, gradually removed keys (left row, top row, inner thumb keys) and now I'm at 34 keys with my triboard. But making the jump could also have worked seems it's a complete change anyway.
Yes, the main thing is you don't have to pay for nice!nanos which are $25 each as I remember. XIAOs are only $10 each. The price I put on tarneo.fr is only as I remember it, might be a bit more depending on location and the shipping options you choose. But yeah I guess even with that it's cheap.
Because it's a decent competitor to the GitHub monopoly. It also has a few unique features when compared to it. Just guessing why OP uses it though (many people do)
Thanks! Looks like I've reached my goal ;-)
Not really, you get used to the small number of keys if that's the question. It's really just muscle memory after some time (I've been using this layout for around a year, iterating occasionally)
Thanks! Some people find the monospace font hurts their eyes though, but I guess it's a tradeoff of the 90s theme
This board:
- Is tiny, less than 10x10 cm for each half, making it easy to carry in a point-and-shoot camera carrying bag.
- Can be made wired or wireless. The wireless version (the one I built) only supports two thumb keys instead of three on each side to leave space for the battery.
- Is cheap (as far as split keyboards go): the whole build cost me less than 90 euros with shipping. The reversible PCB greatly helps with this.
- Can be modified to fit your hands: the four stagger values (pinky to ring, ring to middle, middle to index, index to inner) are defined at the top of the ergogen YAML file and should be changeable without having to worry too much about the rest.
- Supports Kailh Choc hotswap sockets for the switches.
Just ordered the PCBs for my second, custom layout split keyboard, the triboard. I'm also working on a service status watcher + page called swec. It will eventually be able to notify you through gotify whenever your services are down, and maybe even redirect clients to the status page. Some other features include custom downtime messages.
I'd like to keep the board as flat as possible, mimicking the TOTEM's case which doesn't add any height. This means I'll have 0.2 mm between the main PCB and the bottom plate, and AFAIK there is no battery that would have the correct size for this.
Basically title.
Because I live in Paris, it would be nice to buy batteries in store. The most promising model I found is a 180mAh 32x17x4mm lipo.
I could also theoretically use one of these li-ion cylindrical batteries, but they are longer than the keyboard's size (which is 77mm).
Here's what I already tried:
- removing the inner thumb key, which makes the keyboard 34-key and leaves enough space for the battery mentioned above. Though after a few hours of using home row mods on my current keyboard I don't think that will be a good solution.
- moving the MCU (Seeed XIAO BLE) to the right, which makes the board 2cm wider (and doesn't look very good since I have no keys there). This one isn't very elegant, plus I don't really want to make the board wider, and I'd like to avoid it even though it is a solution.
Please ignore the mounting holes and TRRS jacks, I am still unsure about whether or not I want to just ditch bluetooth and make this board wired (which works with kmk)
The ergogen config is available on the github repo.
Check out the blogpost here: https://tarneo.fr/posts/split_keyboard/
I just thought this tutorial could genuinely be useful to some fellow ricers.
It explains not only the git status part of making a pure zsh prompt that looks like this:
Found this on https://0x19.org/about.php
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