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geekhack Community => Ergonomics => Topic started by: nesiax on Tue, 14 May 2013, 22:54:17

Title: from theory to practice
Post by: nesiax on Tue, 14 May 2013, 22:54:17
Hello People.

We had setup a new youtube channel  (http://www.youtube.com/key64org/)to post videos related to the key64 keyboard.

You can see our first video at the following url ( html5 video, no flash required, no h.264 )

[attachimg=1] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAnArLSEDWY&html5=1)

The above video have been recorded using the following tools under Debian GNU/Linux  (http://www.debian.org/):

We used a 21:9 template of 1120x480 pixels available for download (http://www.key64.org/downloads/background-to-record.png).

Ktouch lecture used in this video is available for download (http://www.key64.org/downloads/).

The template is used to delimit the area in the screen to record using recordmydesktop application.

camorama is used to display output from the usb camera.

ktouch is used as a typing tutor.

oggz-tools is used to chop the video.

arista-gtk is the tool used to convert from '.ogv' which is the record file format used in record my desktop and encode in webM format (a.k.a. vp8 royalty free codec) so you can see with a html5 standard browser using a resolution of 1280x720 pixels.

More info ... (http://www.key64.org/news/new-youtube-video-channel)
Title: Re: from theory to practice
Post by: Input Nirvana on Wed, 15 May 2013, 17:06:16
Fantastic!! This project has really come together nicely. I'm following up on your website.
Title: Re: from theory to practice
Post by: regicide on Thu, 16 May 2013, 02:36:46
Love your work, thank you for the video and documentation of the production process.
Installing Ktouch as we speak :)

Really miss having some cherry blues as my Kinesis is cherry brown.
Title: Re: from theory to practice
Post by: nesiax on Thu, 16 May 2013, 07:36:06
Quote from: Input Nirvana on Wed, 15 May 2013, 17:06:16
Fantastic!! This project has really come together nicely. I'm following up on your website.

Hi Gunnar ! thanks for your comment you have always been a fan of the key64 !

Quote from: regicide on Thu, 16 May 2013, 02:36:46
Love your work, thank you for the video and documentation of the production process.
Installing Ktouch as we speak :)

Really miss having some cherry blues as my Kinesis is cherry brown.

Hi Regicide ! nice to meet 'open source' hackers here but 'free software' hackers sounds better as freedom matters.

Regarting blues i prefer browns by a huge margin, i only used blues because those were the only ones i could buy online.

When it comes to keycaps DSA PBT feels amazing, i initially used row based keycaps but i found they to be a nightmare when it comes to ergonomic layouts, they only make sense on row based keyboard.

For the next key64 revision i will dissasembly a cherry g80-3800 i bought a few days ago, as i will like to test cherry reds, i think they will adapt more to my typing style, the next revision will be focused on making the key64 a cheaper DIY process.

I hope to make a list of lecture to test keyboards, something like the acid3 test for browsers but this one is for keyboards, so people can judge keyboards according to their needs.

This way we can test many fields, for example:
* typing documents
* typing programming languages C, C++, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, XML, HTML, LaTeX, etc..
* typing regular expressions. ( i consider this the mother of all tests )