Post by: omen7288 on Mon, 27 April 2015, 17:33:48
http://imgur.com/a/v3m9z#0 (http://imgur.com/a/v3m9z#0)
Post by: evangs on Mon, 27 April 2015, 17:35:30
Post by: Baxter on Mon, 27 April 2015, 17:44:06
Post by: omen7288 on Mon, 27 April 2015, 17:47:30
looks sweet, nice work!!
Thanks!
Noice noice very noice, is this with one of the new PCBs or were we hand-wiring?
Thanks! I went with the hand-wired option as I wanted to try it for the first time anyway. I initially ordered the kit right before jack added the pcb options also.
Post by: Baxter on Mon, 27 April 2015, 18:11:53
Good luck fighting with the lack of offset for a few days :P
Post by: omen7288 on Mon, 27 April 2015, 19:28:06
Cool, looks like a pretty tight gap at the bottom so I wasn't sure.
Good luck fighting with the lack of offset for a few days :P
It is small. I had to put electrical tape around the teensy to make sure it wasn't shorting on any wires. I figure I'll be used to the ortholinear within a week. So far it's nice because of less finger travel but I sometimes hit two keys at the same time still.
Post by: DrHubblePhD on Mon, 27 April 2015, 19:42:31
Post by: Latin00032 on Sat, 02 May 2015, 10:44:47
Cool, looks like a pretty tight gap at the bottom so I wasn't sure.In your opinion, is it hard to get used to the lack of offset?
Good luck fighting with the lack of offset for a few days
I was considering getting planck so I wanted to hear some opinions.
Post by: omen7288 on Sat, 02 May 2015, 11:06:56
Cool, looks like a pretty tight gap at the bottom so I wasn't sure.In your opinion, is it hard to get used to the lack of offset?
Good luck fighting with the lack of offset for a few days
I was considering getting planck so I wanted to hear some opinions.
I don't think so, it's not so different that it makes it a pain. I've had more issues while coding and remembering where I put [], {}, (), -+=_ etc. With my layout, I used the keys to the immediate left and right of the space key to switch to layers that have those keys, and some of them are in places that I'm not used to. I also ended up making the 2nd key to the left of space enter so I could keep the single/double quote in the same relative position that it used to be so I use my left thumb more often.
The other thing I should point out, is that a friend let me borrow a kinesis advantage for a few weeks which have the linear columns as well, and I was spending some time with that before finishing this build so I might have had some experience moving towards being more linear.
I noticed with the linear offsets, you need less finger motion overall which I believe makes it somewhat more ergonomic. I also switch between keyboards often, so it's not so odd that I can't get back to typing at 80+wpm on a regular keyboard.
I'm considering building more of these because I was in the group buy for the gateron switches, however a friend of mine just introduced me to plover so I'm looking at building something for that soon.
http://plover.stenoknight.com/
Post by: Latin00032 on Tue, 05 May 2015, 13:03:35
It looks like a big time investment though.
Post by: omen7288 on Tue, 05 May 2015, 13:20:23
I was thinking about getting into plover in the future.
It looks like a big time investment though.
Yea, we'll see. I guess if I go down this path, I should document how much time I actually invest in it so it might be useful for other people interested in trying it out. I started doing the online walkthrough and am practicing the vowels for a few minutes a day.
I figured I've kind of hit my limit with qwerty so I'll try steno for a bit.
http://qwertysteno.com/Basics/TheVowelsPractice.php