I use the sofle choc but instead of LEDs or so, I have those 3 extra buttons to the inside.
Using a split keyboard because I really want the tenting for my wrists.
I guess you're referring to having the Y on the left side? I found my keyboard on Ali Express, but the listing is gone now. There might be others, though.
What keyboard are you using?
I know little about split keyboards but am interested, and just happened across your post. Your image has enough keys to solve something I wanted for a long time...
Cool idea, here's mine 🙃
Base layer: pretty boring except escape instead of caps. Highly recommend, who caps their locks these days
Layer one: cursor navigation for my left and num pad for my right.
Layer two: punctuation boogaloo (I'm a coder I use all of 'em)
Layer three is full of weird buttons like "F24" and "DM Rec Stop" that I use as hotkeys for specific programs.
It's probably highly sub-optimal, but I kinda like logical layouts :) plus its waaay easier to remember
I use normal qwerty keyboards, I only swap Esc with Caps lock much better ergonomy. Specially with vim.
That is HOT 🔥
Thank you, it does.
A switch is a thing that selectively completes a circuit. There are several types of switches that work for keyboards, “mechanical” being one of them.
“Rubber domed” is a type of switch that has fewer parts, using a metal “dome” for each key that is pushed when you type. They don’t use anything “mechanical,” which makes them take up less space and makes them feel different than a switch that has actual mechanical mechanisms.
Mechanical switches, “cherry” and “alps” being specific types of those, have an actual spring, rail components, and other parts.
The latter is referred to as “mechanical” because it has mechanical parts, whereas the domed switches do not.
Then over time, people shortened “a keyboard with mechanical switches” to “mechanical keyboard.”
Hope this helps!
So I do not know what you mean by switch type & Rubber domed, Cherry & Alps are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_technology#Dome-switch_keyboard
I have seen on movies & shows, large/desktop sized screens, used as touch screens. Those are awesome, screen sized wise, but I think I would prefer the feel of what I think you would include as mechanical keyboards.
I forgot about the- touch screen (LOL, even that is all I have to use, this time in my life), projected & VR keyboards.
You are more knowledgeable about keyboards, than I am. So I do not know what you mean by switch type & Rubber domed, Cherry & Alps are.
For a second there, I thought you were referring to the analog type typewritters’ keyboards. Of course is if those are keyboards, they probably are not.
Or Hall effect switches.
I suppose that one could also hypothetically use a keyboard with only capacitive keys. Such a keyboard wouldn't have mechanical components even in the technical sense.
I also imagine that actually using a keyboard like that would be pretty awful.
searches
Apparently they do make them. This one is aimed at hospitals, where you can't have crevices or anything:
Specifically mechanical in this context refers to the switch type.
But no not all keyboards are mechanical.
Touch screen keyboards for example, projected keyboards, VR keyboards.
Rubber domed keyboards are the most common cheap keyboard you get with a Dell and while the key stroke is mechanical the feel is not comparable to older style keyboards with a mechanical switch like cherry or alps.
Sorta is what it is, really. Cherry invented the MX switch, and it's a very good form factor, but it became standard more through attrition during the ascendency of membrane boards than being drastically better than any of the alternatives.
They didn't innovate when they still had the patent, didn't innovate when they still had slightly better product and a lot of brand cachet, and didn't innovate when COVID blew up mech keyboards as a thing. Their boards were never particularly high end apart from using their good switches and having (back in the day) nice caps, and they sold that good keycap tooling to GMK at some point. Their membrane boards are utterly unremarkable. Even recent Cherry switch offerings are more "catch up" than moving ahead.
The worst part is that the community has been coming up with ideas to improve their product since before the MX patent expired. I get that the hobby side is small compared to OEM and industrial, but there was a long runway to ensure something unique survived and even thrived. Hard to mourn the slow erosion of a B2B industrial supplier's business model.
If you don’t have a solder sucker or wick like the others have mentioned you might be able to knock it out. Just use a soldering iron and heat up one at a time and when it’s melted knock the board on a surface so that the surface tension on the solder pulls it out of the through hole.
Some solder wick and flux will pull that right off.
Certainly. This is a very common need with working on PCBs. You have two choices:
Solder wick
Manual vacuum desoldering tool
If you end up doing this a lot there are also very nice (and expensive) powered vacuum desoldering stations.
Regardless of which you choose, make sure to practice on a board you don't care about. It takes some time to learn how much heat to apply, angles, etc. You don't want to destroy your good board learning.
I assume you mean the lack of a "`/~" key? If so, I just have it on a layer, accessed with the FN key, and mapped to its usual spot. So to get to it, I just hold down shift and FN instead of only shift. My F row is just FN+1 through FN+'=', and a few other goodies are hiding various places as well.
How do you get to your home directory?
She is a beauty! 🤩
I like the colors, and also the font on the large keys
MoeeTech released a new Hall-effect (magnetic) version with a similar layout and rounded shape, but in a translucent polycarbonate case: the Glitter65 HE. And surprisingly, I like this affordable version even better than the alu one.
They look nice
From scratch. I'm close to being done and i'm very excited. As i write this i'm deciding if i want clicky and tactile switches or just tactile, and which keys would be clicky if i include those.
Sounds fun, did you design from scratch or start from something existing?