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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: gcollic on Sat, 10 January 2015, 03:13:20

Title: Yet Another OrthoLinear Keyboard 60% (Yaolk60 ?)
Post by: gcollic on Sat, 10 January 2015, 03:13:20

I'm creating a keyboard inspired by typematrix and planck : Yet Another OrthoLinear Keyboard 60% (still not sure how to call it. Yaolk60 ?).

(http://i.imgur.com/6TiKNkz.png)
(the 2 parts are on a single board)

http://imgur.com/a/guPh1

What I try to do :

After 3 years of Das Keyboard 3 (iso blank with black switches) and then 4 years of typematrix (blank, and, hum, scissor switches...), I'm waiting for ergodox successors like Axios (https://www.crowdsupply.com/multiplxd/axios-keyboard) and the K80CS / Katy (http://deskthority.net/workshop-f7/katy-keyboard-or-k80cs-key80-contoured-split-t8524.html-t8524.html).

But splitted keyboard don't seem to be easy to use on the go or on the couch, and axios won't be available before a long time. So I decided to create something else to keep using on the go when I will have an axios at home or at work.

• ortholinear (or maybe staggered like ergodox ?)
• more compact than typematrix
• symmetrical when possible (as many columns on right side than on left)
• hands further moved apart than typematrix, but on a single board unlike ergodox. The space between the hands will make room for the teensy, for a thinner case
• easy to get sculptured keycaps profile, based on 105 keys iso sets (no 1.5 modifiers madness), like WASD one
• fn layout with arrows
• lots of key shortcuts easy to do even with fn-layer keys (alt-f3, win-arrow, alt-enter, altgr-space, ...)
• left "fn" for momentary arrow session, and right "fn lock" for longer numpad session
• only the more easy to use key are used when I use my customized compact bépo layout (french dvorak)
• every iso keys should be available when I need to use a standard layout such as french azerty
• french azerty keycaps for colleagues, or during remote desktop session on computer without bépo
• maybe a partial hardware "azerty to bépo" conversion layout (complete support is impossible, since a lot of bépo keys don't exists on azerty or qwerty, contrary to "qwerty to dvorak" conversion layout)
• maybe a mouse layer

There is still some keys I'm not sure what to do with.