cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45765963
The design is based on the excellent Dactyl keyboard, generated with https://ryanis.cool/cosmos/ and it runs the excellent qmk firmware. It is handwired:
and I have also made a palm support using inkscape and openscad
All printed on a reprap prusa i3 derivative.
This helps me use my computer with less pain, so I want to call out all the wonderful projects and people who contribute to them which made it possible.
Total cost? $60 aud, amortised filament ~15 bucks worth maybe? and a lot of my time haha.
Looks so good. One day I will build a Dactyl as well, one day.
Pretty easy with that cosmos thing I linked. you can literally drag and drop buttons and shit. Pretty neat!
The most time consuming part was cleaning up the keycap prints as that involved removing support material and a brim for each. Soldering was around 4 hours work.
Super neat. What are those knobs for?
What kind of switches did you choose?
Knobs are for knobby things. QMK is extremely configurable. Sometimes they are volume, sometimes seeking, sometimes mouse x and y, sometimes scroll wheel, sometimes keyboard arrows, mostly decorative.
MX browns. I am distinctly not obsessed with keyboards. I just like being able to use computers in postures that don’t hurt.
sometimes mouse x and y
The anti-trackball.
I have a trackball, but for pixel perfect placement etc. The knobs help me draw badly with more precision.
What did you program your knobs to do? All of the above?
indeed. Layers like an onion or an ogre.
What the hell is this madness?
Man, 3d printing is punk as fuck, I love when people post bespoke shit.
Tinkering with electronics alone indoors is like the opposite of punk.
Don’t tell me that you’re one of those people that think punk is all about attitude and loud music. DIY and community building is punk af.
Too many keys
The funny thing is that it’s not even enough keys, you need to use layers
Yeah that was part of the joke. Guess it didn’t leave well.
Found a Planck user
Sorry your childhood sucked and you never learned how to talk like a decent human being.
Lol ok. First off, that wasn’t mean.
Second, it was an opinion.
Third, it was a joke.
To explain the joke, keyboards with less keys than this exist and it’s a common meme for people to comment “not enough keys” when people share images of them.
Thought this was a keyboard community. Didn’t realize it was 3d printing.
Very cool! Can I crosspost to !mechanical_keyboards@programming.dev ?
Nobody needs permission to post a link to something somewhere. What horror happened to you?
Oh, I’ve seen it happen before, such as here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45667427?scrollToComments=true
Thanks anyway, I’ll post right away
There are always lunatics, you’d go mad trying to please everyone. It’s one thing to not promote harassment. But if you put something into the stormwater drain of the information superhighway it’s flowing everywhere with the rest or the shit.
You’d get further cursing the rain for falling on you.
Holy cow! I didn’t know about that community, thank you!
reminds me of naked lunch
Reminds me of something from the Neverhood Game.
Dactyl! I’ve really wanted to build one and embrace the Coleman. How was the build?
I strongly recommend checking verticle clearance for the microcontroller if you angle it.
I also strongly recommend living somewhere where asking for enameled wire with an enamel that can be burned off with solder doesn’t get you blank stares.
If you can’t do the latter Livingston sells scapels which work well to remove insulation in the middle of wires.
Okay, Star Platinum.
Respect for your tism.
I love those keycaps 😍
AFAIK you shouldn’t need wrist rests, dactyl should allow you to rest on table nicely!
(I have a Scylla)
I’m sorry I made my custom keyboard wrong.
I don’t think that was meant as criticism, it seemed like they were trying to be helpful.
Awesome keeb, BTW!
Helpful, how? Obviously I am using palm rests because it is more comfortable than not using palm rests. If I have made them to a specific height one might imagine I had a specific reason no?
Helpful by sharing information they believed to be true, that they thought you might not have heard/known. I don’t see any malice in their post or any expectation that you change what you’re doing.
That’s not helpful
Respectful, I disagree. I’ve learned a lot from people making small comments like that, even when they’re unintentionally blunt.
What could I learn from that?
The person has not built a dactyl, they have not used this dactyl which has several customisations, they have not sat at my desk, they don’t have my body.
They’re just stating something useless from a position of ignorance because… why? If you don’t know what you’re talking about just don’t say anything. 90% of the misinformation on the internet would disappear overnight if people followed that. As a happy side effect men online might learn some basic manners too.
I will always upvote split ergo (column staggered) keyboards. Nice stuff, looks much much cleaner than the one i made and threw out 😂
I have improvements I will make on my portable keyboard for lappy, but I’m never going back.
They’re a lot more comfortable.
Can I have one?
If you need stuff printed I, or someone more local, would be more than happy to help. Otherwise all the knowledge and tools are available for free.
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