What sort of selfish, self centred, person must you be to put your kids above the needs of this community for more photos and your impressions of this keyboard?
That is not our way. Shame.
Seriously beautiful design! Hope you get to your senses and finish it :-) Do you have a lot of experience designing 3d objects?
If the aomebas don’t fit just Handwire it. It’s really enjoyable. Takes some time at first though.
Asked a similar question years ago and some suggested fingernail polish. Not sure how easy it would be to get off in case you must. Never tried it myself.
Plastidip should do the job elegantly if you manage to apply it cleanly enough.
Thanks! Looks good
Thanks! That’s one serious checklist :-)
The case I made might be a lost cause - it’s got very little space for dampening the sound with foam, but enough to become an echo chamber. I’ll see what I can do, but not optimistic.
I will keep this in mind for my next design though.
Thanks again!
It’s really cool, with plenty of colourful stuff, but if you ask about ergonomic they point you to an Alice style board…
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Do you live in Germany? Would you recommend sourcing laser cutting services here?
Because of the material, affixing might create the problem, or at least make it worse. I think affixing the plate with rubber layer might be the solution, but never tried that.
Doesn’t the xiao build only have 11 io? How did you manage?
You’d be surprised to feel the difference in a keywell such as yours paired with super sculpted keycaps! Assuming that a keywell makes keycap sculpting unnecessary, but then learnt that the manuform was designed around SA keycaps, I gave that a try, with extra sculpt. Instead of the regular 2,3,4 (3rd row being flat, 2 and 4 being slightly sculpted in opposite direction), I tried 1,3,4, where 1st row is for number row and fn row. It’s super tall and sculpted. It was heavily! It reduced finger movement even more, but as you said - it was in a natural way.
Highly recommended!
My previous Dactyl Manuform was very low profile with choc switches, it was very elegant, more than most Dactyl Manuforms. The last one I built and am using now, is the bog standard 3x5 with SA keycaps - much, much taller but so much better!
What didn’t you like about the U4? Are you using the U4t (for tactile)? It’s the first silent switch I’ve used and I love it, but don’t know any better. I might have to get new switches for building your variation, and if you’ve got a recommendation for a u4t alternative (and the reason it’s better) I’d love to hear it!
Anyway - great photos, and again, beautiful build!
I’ll look at the design and maybe order it this evening.
I’ll also see how easy it could be to connect a xiao ble controller instead.
Wow, Thank you! For the 5 column fix especially. That’s very generous of you.
I know next to nothing about 30 printing, I intend to order it from some service. Any settings I should ask for? Which would be altogether better, MJF or SLS?
I love the DM. I was wondering about how it compares to similar boards, or to be honest - looking for an excuse to build another, and for the right board, to be different enough to justify a new build
I’d love to try it out! Looking forward to it.
Do you intend sharing it in this sub?
Now to look for a good and not too expensive place to print it :-)
Edit: Forgot to ask - is it too thin to handwire? Was hoping to keep it cheap.
The concept was to hit both keys together at the centre of the column, emulating a basic qwerty board with less vertical movement. Never got it to work properly when it was difficult. Might try now that it’s trivial
Can’t see the photo yet, happened earlier with the first comment and then got fixed.
It’s beautiful! That is what ill build! Is it a lot to get other than 3D print?
what did you modify??? Please share :-)
Edit: OK, your thumb cluster is a must. Is it low profile switches or just really cool keycaps?
Would editing it to be a 5 column board be a lot of work?
Edit 2: Would you be willing to share your modifications?
It’s surprising to me that having redundancy isn’t common. I’ve got several ways to get to numbers, arrows, I can reach any key using the left hand only (and one day I’ll be arsed to fix things so that the right hand could too). It’s mostly theoretical, as some of the combinations are not well memorised, but those I found useful obviously are.
Have you any experience with the Dactyl Manuform? Can you compare?
Wow! Love it! It’s not for me, I won’t be trying it sadly, need my basic qwerty core keys, but it’s so cute and elegant.
I did build the Gigi by pseudoku. It was before combos were even a part of QMK. I might try to build a keymap for that emulating basic qwerty I.e. Q + Z = A
Might have been on my side. Boost for lemmy doesn’t open these properly even when it does work. No way to enlarge or download
Looks great! Not to my 1DFH preference, but very good looking! Is it tented?
That makes it even more impressive!
Well done, a beautiful organic look to it.