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geekhack Community => Ergonomics => Topic started by: mharrison on Fri, 02 December 2011, 11:40:03

Title: Option for split matrix keyboard
Post by: mharrison on Fri, 02 December 2011, 11:40:03

Long time lurker. First post. Spend all day at work on a unicomp with trackpoint. Have broken an MS4000, and occasionally use thinkpad and apple aluminum keyboards.

The TE keyboard is intriguing to me. I like the matrix idea, but would prefer a split design. I've seen the group buy for the split board which is also interesting.

Has anyone used acess-is? Seems like you could wire 2
aKC048 (would post link but can't since first post)  keyboards together and get split matrix in mechanical pretty easily.

Comments?

Title: Option for split matrix keyboard
Post by: sordna on Fri, 02 December 2011, 12:31:09

I've been lusting after a pair of AKC048 myself. Somebody has done it with a larger model:
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?10874-Access-keyboards&p=303040&viewfull=1#post303040

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Title: Option for split matrix keyboard
Post by: dorkvader on Fri, 02 December 2011, 17:13:49

I've seen a picture of Dual tipro's hero on geekhack before, so that's probably an option, as well.

Title: Option for split matrix keyboard
Post by: sordna on Fri, 02 December 2011, 17:37:41

Tipro's are either too small or too large. The AKC048 seems to have the perfect size for a fully functional split keyboard.

Hey mharrison, forgot to mention: Welcome to GH !

By the way, there's a custom split matrix keyboard proposal by Dox, check it out, if it happens it will be awesome:
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?22780-Interest-Check-Custom-split-ergo-keyboard

you can subscribe to that thread and mention if you are interested in one of these...