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geekhack Community => New Members => Topic started by: madmod on Sat, 26 September 2015, 17:00:10
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Hi GH! Signed up because I'm looking to build my first board! I've had a few Das Keyboards but they aren't cutting it anymore. I love blues but had to get a second with browns since I worked in a cube for a while. Now I'm woking from home so blues are back! :D I just installed an ergonomic keyboard holder on my desk and I'm loving it! I really want something tenkeyless like a 60% but I can go lower. I'm addicted to VIM and spend most of my time in tmux. (Arrow keys, whats that? ;) ) I've had some key magic set up for about a year now with Karibiner but I'd like it to be in hardware. Caps is esc on tap but ctrl on hold, tap shift for visor terminal, and swap numbers/symbols shift. I don't think the poker or anything like that does key magic like I want so it looks like I will need to either build it myself or get something that can run tmk. A tmk usb>usb converter might be an option but I'd like some more portability I think. I have built a few projects with teensy and raspberry pi so building something from a PCB sounds like where I will end up. A planck looks awesome and having full control over firmware would be great for me to vimify everything, but I'm doing a ton of work right now and can't take the productivity hit of an ortholinear layout. A quark looks almost ideal execept for the fact that there is no pcb. I have the TextBlade on pre-order and will write a review whenever that actually arrives. The patents have some seriously interesting stuff and I'm excited to see how the magnetic keyswitches feel. Here is a pic of my new setup with the keyboard tray. I plan to mod the wrist wrest into a palm wrest with a magic trackpad in the middle. (I know trackpads are evil, but not leaving home row for mousing is amazing. I die a little inside every time my fingers leave home row. ;) )
Also I must be a robot because these captchas are hard. :eek:
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Welcome to Geekhack!
That looks like a comfortable setup you have there.
The captchas do disappear after a while, or so I've been told.
You might have a look through the making stuff together (https://geekhack.org/index.php?board=117.0) area which has lots of info about designing and building keyboards.
There's even a thread about TMK firmware (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41989.0).
And hasu does pop in from time to time, and is usually very responsive to questions :)