I have a tendency to eat non-steak western foods with chopsticks...

And most Asian foods with fork and spoon.

Until now I can't eat spaghetti or pastas with a fork. I hate chasing salad tomatoes around with a fork.
But I grouch at the round table Chinese restaurants where you have to eat everything with chopsticks.

Gotta say I'm really happy I got the Zombro, it looks awesome.
Cant wait till my Toxic keycaps arrive so I can see them both together

Okay so I've been doing some thinking about this the last few days and I think I have a way that we can make this work.

Plates - I've contacted some local laser cutters so I don't have to worry about shipping from BBS, still waiting back to hear from the place I've used previously but it looks like pricing could actually be pretty favourable (around $20USD per plate, complex cutouts, 1.6mm SS). I sincerely appreciate all the work BBS is doing with GH but if I'm the one handling all the shipping it makes no sense ordering them from the US if I have to pay for shipping and wait the 3-4 weeks it will take them to arrive. Less chance for them to get bent or damaged too.

PCB's - Got thinking about this the other night and decided to do a mockup run on Circuithub so that I can offer a full GHPad kit with PCB. They offer complete pcb manufacture and soldering services and from what I can tell we can get pretty decent pricing for anything over 25 units. At that quantity we'd be getting the PCB's for about $40USD each. Free worldwide shipping too which will cut down on costs.

Cases - Same deal as before, going to source from i.materialise once I have a couple of test units made to check fit and finish. These will be optional as the price breaks are minimal over 5 units (about $22USD each) and they include free shipping on orders over 99EUR.

So basically IF we can get enough people on board for PCB's we should be good to go, the only thing you'll need to do is solder in switches and install stabs. I can probably help by buying some extra PCB's if we get close to 25 units but I just can't afford to shoulder the cost of a full run right now.

Really need to see some numbers for interested parties, how many kits you would buy etc so I'll do up a Google poll and post it shortly.

Okay thanks.  This I/O expander was the missing piece of my puzzle.

Another option is to simply build two one-handed keyboards. This is what PJE does with his OneHand design: http://deskthority.net/workshop-f7/onehand-20-keyboard-t6617.html

This is a dramatically simpler design, plus each can be used individually. The downside is that on Mac OS X, modifiers pressed on one keyboard cannot affect keypresses from the other keyboard. So depending on your OS, this might not be such a great idea.

Quote from: jacobolus on Mon, 02 March 2015, 21:34:33

The shift key that far out to the right is totally useless as a shift. You might as well just leave it off entirely and put something else in that spot.

Quote from: swill on Mon, 02 March 2015, 22:09:33

Not really.  How often do you use the right shift anyway.

People in general, or me personally? I personally use the right shift almost exclusively, reserving the left shift for the symbols on the right hand number row and keys typed with the right hand pinky and sometimes ring finger (so among letters, that’s usually P, and sometimes L or O).

Your keyboard would be totally unusable for me.

But hey, if you don’t use the right shift, that’s no problem, go ahead and get rid of it. There’s just not much point IMO in making it so far away that you couldn’t use it if you wanted. I think you’d be much better off dropping the right shift entirely and shifting the arrows a slight bit more to the right.

Yeah, I use right shift as well, so I decided to make it the same size as left shift and place it right next to the alphas. That way it's very similar to stock layout. Hopefully it works as well in practice as I think it will in theory.