Not observant myself, but best wishes to those of the faith. My first ever hand-wired keyboard was a Planck with an extra column.

  • OcéaneFrançais
    1·
    12 hours ago

    I’ve bought the elvish keycaps myself and I find your Planck so damn elegant. Where did you buy it?

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Thanks! My keycaps there are just Matcha clones from Ali Express, and I made the board myself from my 3D printer and a board of maple hard-wood that I had around.

      I wired the switches to the Rasperry Pi Pico by hand. It is a little bit tall for a Planck, maybe 35mm with full-height keycaps, and to be honest I found I just prefer more keys and a regular column stagger, but I am fairly pleased at how the extra three keys make the layout easier for an “ortho noob”.

  • Psythik@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    Can’t do these. For me, it’s 100% or nothing. I need my numpad and spacing around the arrow keys.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I made a lot of my own boards, and the three I use the most are:

      • One that’s basically a “Tenkeyless”, but I keep an external numpad nearby.
      • One that has a numpad but everything’s kind of compressed and I use “Fn+number” to get the F keys. That one has a speck of UV resin on down-arrow so I can find it without looking.
      • One that is still a bit compact in layout, but has 117 keys, including a big red industrial pushbutton and a volume knob.

      As fond as I am of this little guy, I just don’t use it very often.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Were key-board ergonomics not invented until the 90’s or something? A perfect grid for the key’s is a nightmare to actually type on or use. This was figured out during the type-writer heyday.

    • snail_hunter@programming.dev
      2·
      2 days ago

      Typewriters were staggered so that the mechanical arms wouldn’t collide. Your finger bends out and back linearly. Personally I prefer split keyboards or ones like the Atreus that have each half angled out, this avoids having to bend your wrists. But either way keyboards with linear columns are more ergonomic than staggered columns.

  • dnzm@feddit.nl
    3·
    2 days ago

    Wow, some people will just not hear about living without their ISO enter, huh? 😉

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      Even though I didn’t quite fall in love with the general idea of ortho, I’m still pretty pleased with myself. Bigger enter, proper arrow keys, and no missing punctuation. Good compromise for a bit of extra pinky movement, and no reason you couldn’t just map it out as a as normal Planck with a trio of media keys or macros.

        • wjrii@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          There are people who daily the real thing, with 47 or 48 keys. I couldn’t do it, even with this one visually preserving more of the “standard” layout. Turned out I liked building boards more than learning to use them.