I have felt for years that the keyboard was a horrible design. I have dabbled with new designs in my head and in random sketches, but never went very far with any of it. (I was most bothered by the fact that my left thumb did nothing all day...)
I would often tell other nerds about my big keyboard revolution ideas. They usually just kinda changed the subject or something. Just a month ago, however, I told a fellow nerd and he mentioned how he had been wanting to build a keyboard for a long time too. He then mentioned how there were lots of guides, but he didn't have the money (newlywed...) I got excited and looked online only to find that making a custom keyboard was way more simple than I had made it out to be in my fantasies. This whole last month has killed my social life and my wallet. I figure I can rectify at least one of those problems here. My many searches seemed to always lead me back here. I suppose it was only a matter of time before I joined up.
Well, if you are interested, here is the forum post I made about my summer project:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=71304.0Anyway, its good to be home... finally, with folks who, like me, do not want to say fettered to the inefficiencies of the past. Ok, I better end this before I start sounding too religiously fanatic and get thrown out for being too zealously ant-typewriter-layoutey.
