ErgoMechKeyboards
Ergonomic, split and other weird keyboards
Rules
Keep it ergo
Posts must be of/about keyboards that have a clear delineation between the left and right halves of the keyboard, column stagger, or both. This includes one-handed (one half doesn't exist, what clearer delineation is that!?)
i.e. no regular non-split¹ row-stagger and no non-split¹ ortholinear²
¹ split meaning a separation of the halves, whether fixed in place or entirely separate, both are fine.
² ortholinear meaning keys layed out in a grid
No Spam
No excessive posting/"shilling" for commercial purposes. Vendors are permitted to promote their products/services but keep it to a minimum and use the [vendor] flair. Posts that appear to be marketing without being transparent about it will be removed.
No Buy/Sell/Trade
This subreddit is not a marketplace, please post on r/mechmarket or other relevant marketplace.
Some useful links
- EMK wiki
- Split keyboard compare tool
- Compare keycap profiles Looking for another set of keycaps - check this site to compare the different keycap profiles https://www.keycaps.info/
- Keymap database A database with all kinds of keymap layouts - some of them fits ergo keyboards - get inspired https://keymapdb.com/
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There's lots of ways to round things or chamfer things. Coming from an extruded shape, a basic chamfer is pretty easy, you can do two different extrusions, one a bit shorter than your final piece and one full height, but
offset
inward a bit, and then hull them together:Though, because of the hull, this will only really work with fully convex shapes. Doing this for shapes with concave features is harder.
For rounding, you can do the extrusion, but with it a bit smaller in every dimension, then
minkowski
with a sphere (or a different shape if you don't want all the edges rounded), but it's tricky to get right:Thank you. Yeah, the shape is a mix of convex and concave. I might need to just make do for this prototype.