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Title: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: mkawa on Thu, 12 December 2013, 09:16:37
http://blog.fsck.com/2013/12/better-and-better-keyboards.html

cool stuff!
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 12 December 2013, 09:25:18
Is this guy a geekhacker? If not he needs to be!
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: jwaz on Thu, 12 December 2013, 09:31:02
Is this guy a geekhacker? If not he needs to be!

He has a Retro set so...
Wonder why he hasn't made a thread?
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: yasuo on Thu, 12 December 2013, 09:40:00
i want to know
how he cut the plate so neat :-X
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: mkawa on Thu, 12 December 2013, 09:40:29
yah, that retro set came from ron's office. surprised he didn't mention the ergodox. his rev 2 is basically a dox
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: obra on Thu, 12 December 2013, 10:20:36
Is this guy a geekhacker? If not he needs to be!

Yep, I am.

yah, that retro set came from ron's office. surprised he didn't mention the ergodox. his rev 2 is basically a dox

Mostly because I covered the ErgoDox in some depth in my previous posts on the topic:

http://blog.fsck.com/2012/12/building-a-keyboard-part-1.html
http://blog.fsck.com/2012/12/building-a-keyboard-part-2.html

i want to know
how he cut the plate so neat :-X

Lasercutter. dangerawesome.co in Cambridge, MA
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: codyeatworld on Thu, 12 December 2013, 10:25:35
I was wondering who was behind http://launch.keyboard.io/

Is this guy a geekhacker? If not he needs to be!

Yeah! im surprised hes not already on here.
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 12 December 2013, 10:27:08
Is this guy a geekhacker? If not he needs to be!

Yep, I am.

yah, that retro set came from ron's office. surprised he didn't mention the ergodox. his rev 2 is basically a dox

Mostly because I covered the ErgoDox in some depth in my previous posts on the topic:

http://blog.fsck.com/2012/12/building-a-keyboard-part-1.html
http://blog.fsck.com/2012/12/building-a-keyboard-part-2.html

i want to know
how he cut the plate so neat :-X

Lasercutter. dangerawesome.co in Cambridge, MA


Awesome!! glad mkawa stumbled across your page!! You should consider posting in the DIY section!!
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: obra on Thu, 12 December 2013, 10:41:41
I was wondering who was behind http://launch.keyboard.io/

I'm pretty sure I posted that heart shaped keyboard somewhere on geekhack last spring :)
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 12 December 2013, 10:44:25
I was wondering who was behind http://launch.keyboard.io/

I'm pretty sure I posted that heart shaped keyboard somewhere on geekhack last spring :)


Things get lost really easily around here....
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: CPTBadAss on Thu, 12 December 2013, 10:44:58
This blog is a lot of fun to read. I like seeing the development through the lens of a programmer. I have the opposite situation: I'm better with the mechanical/hardware side of keyboards than the programming side.

And I like how the design for manufacture problem crops up in hobbies. I have to deal with that a lot at work too. Still reading through all your blogs XD. Oh and I like the latest iteration being butterfly shaped :P.

Oh and your keyboards and their iterations are fantastic. I hope you keep posting/working on these ^__^.
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: obra on Thu, 12 December 2013, 16:25:41
Today's update:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbUWjTWIYAE33ak.jpg:large)

Only made one catastrophic error when designing the PCB
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbUWqK4IcAAjaW7.jpg:large)
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: obra on Thu, 12 December 2013, 18:04:25
This blog is a lot of fun to read. I like seeing the development through the lens of a programmer. I have the opposite situation: I'm better with the mechanical/hardware side of keyboards than the programming side.
It turns out that there's great opensource firmware these days. If you pick a standard microcontroller and build neat hardware, firmware will not be an issue.

Oh and your keyboards and their iterations are fantastic. I hope you keep posting/working on these ^__^.

Thank you!
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: Oobly on Fri, 13 December 2013, 02:36:38
Today's update:

Show Image
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbUWjTWIYAE33ak.jpg:large)


Only made one catastrophic error when designing the PCB
Show Image
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbUWqK4IcAAjaW7.jpg:large)


Very nice! Please post a design / build log of this one if you find the time / inclination. It looks like a winner (even though I do prefer angled thumb buttons and tenting, but you have to have separate PCB's then).

If I may ask, which character layout do you use?
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: kurplop on Fri, 13 December 2013, 07:47:13
I've been following your progress since your first ErgoDox build and I've been in awe by how quickly you've learned and applied all the disciplines necessary to get you to this point.

 It's nice to see radially placed thumb keys on your design. I've been playing around with the concept and think it's a winner. The only snag is its ideal radius and placement may be somewhat hand specific.

I like it.
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: obra on Fri, 13 December 2013, 10:53:29
Very nice! Please post a design / build log of this one if you find the time / inclination. It looks like a winner
Thanks! I'm starting to hit the point where I may need to be a little bit circumspect about what I post, since I'm heading toward something I hope to produce commercially, but you'll see something about this once it's done.


(even though I do prefer angled thumb buttons and tenting, but you have to have separate PCB's then).
I prefer tenting, too. But I'm at the point where I need to take into account what I'll be able to get produced in quantity for a sane cost.
If I may ask, which character layout do you use?
I..still type QWERTY, though the keyboard also speaks Dvorak, Colemak, Workman and a variant of Maltron.
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: obra on Fri, 13 December 2013, 10:55:44
I've been following your progress since your first ErgoDox build and I've been in awe by how quickly you've learned and applied all the disciplines necessary to get you to this point.

 It's nice to see radially placed thumb keys on your design. I've been playing around with the concept and think it's a winner. The only snag is its ideal radius and placement may be somewhat hand specific.

I like it.

Thanks! It's definitely been an adventure coming up to speed with the full skill-set I've needed to date. Though I'm told that I've now done the easy 20% -- I've built one and need to make "lots"

The nice thing about using larger keys for the thumb keys is that they're pretty forgiving of differing hand sizes. So far, it hasn't proven to be more of a problem than the vertical staggering of the various columns.
Title: Re: Jesse Vincent's homebrew ergo boards -- sporting retro set caps!
Post by: yasuo on Fri, 13 December 2013, 11:15:42
I see you make design split like m15,may you can try make like Cherry MX5000 i think it nice also :)