Hello!
I am starting to make my first DIY keyboard and there are questions I didn't find answers to, so I figured I might as well sign up and ask them away
I am 28 year-old web developer and I live in Paris.
A couple years ago, my left hand began aching from typing awkward key combinations too many times a day. I had already heard of ergonomic keyboards but I had never tried one. My boyfriend got interested in them too, and we bought a Typematrix 2030 each and learned to type with the Dvorak layout on them. It convinced us that the matrix layout feels much better than the traditional staggered one.
But as the time passed, I found that some of the design features of the Typematrix didn't feel right: the hands are too close to each other, modifiers are a bit out of reach, especially the Ctrl key which is way too low for my pinky, keys that don't register or register twice when it feels like I pressed them correctly...
And I read about mechanical keyboards, about the ErgoDox with its thumb cluster, and soon I wasn't satisfied anymore with my Typematrix (though it is still way better than my coworkers' keyboards), and I started imagining what the ideal keyboard would be like. And as always when I have a fairly clear idea of what I want that can't really be found in shops, I thought I should build it myself.
So here I am !
I will post my WIP in "making stuff together" if that is the right place to do that.
