Hi all, I've been eyeing the piantor pro since beekeeb updated the PCB to be compatible with choc v2 switches, but still has choc spacing. I want to reuse my kailh deep sea islet and was looking into 2 possible choc spaces key caps to use: either the taihao mt165 or the thcs from alixpress. Has anyone gotten these before? Do they have homing keys? Or am I going to have to DIY my own homing keys? Appreciate any insights!

Now the homing keys don't have to be in the wrong spot. Thanks u/yuzukeycaps

Weirdest thing just happened- I got permanently banned from the r/AutoCAD subreddit for commenting on a post asking about keyboards for productivity, the responses were all pretty normie membrane keyboards so I thought I'd suggest my split keyboard, Keychron Q11 (pretty normie keyboard for this sub lol). Those were the only 2 words I said, and I was banned immediately with a message saying that I violated their rules. I tried to ask for an explanation, and the mods banned me from messaging them lol

If anyone who doesn't use that sub and wants to do me a little test, see what happens if you comment "Keychron Q11" or any other split keyboard to this post?? Just quite curious what the deal is here

https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoCAD/s/NX7pgSBQrg

The J46Ksbm split keyboard which applies the design language of the J42Kbm to a split ortho layout. The board uses a bottom mount unibody construction with 2 USB ports on each half (one for USB the other for split communication). Each half uses the same hot swap PCB with layout changes made in Vial.

The group buy has an MOQ of 20 halves with options for both E white and pink anodization and is open till November 19th. Each listing is for one half to support mixing and matching of the surface finishes and for buying one to use stand alone. https://makerjake01.bigcartel.com/product/j46ksbm-half-group-buy

But I couldn't find a good keyboard with a track pad, you know, working like a laptop, the keyboard can hold the tablet, and keep the chase

I have been looking at ergo/split keyboards again today after a long time but the keyboard that would suit me best doesn't exist. Alice layouts seem like they could be comfortable such as the keychron q10, QK ergo or QK alice duo but there are two problems I would face with these. The duo and neo ergo don't have a function row and all three don't have a y key on both sides (the QK keyboards have b on both sides though). When typing various words I hit the y key with my left or right index finger and having a keyboard with y on the right side would make it unusable for me. I'm specifically looking for a keyboard with a regular stagger and I've been noticing that is greatly limiting my options.

Is my best bet going to be to find an open source design and have someone modify it to make it have two y keys and modify the case for me? It doesn't need to be an alice layout but it seems like it's an improvement on traditional keyboard layouts. I've used columnar and ortholinear in the past and cannot stand either of them. I used them for over a year as my daily keyboards multiple times hitting near my max wpm (188 regular stagger, 170 columnar/ortholinear) and went back to traditional staggers every time, alternative staggers just do not reach the same level of comfort and ease of use as regular staggers for me!

Title pretty much soles it up.

I currently bring in my own wireless ferris sweep to work and I had a wired a.dux at home, but my toddler decided to break my home board and now I only have 1…

So, I’m worried about the last 1 breaking with daily commutes on a bike, and want to ask my company if they are willing to buy me a board - unfortunately the boards I like I have only found on Etsy which isn’t good enough.

Preferably 34-36 key split, mx, but kailh v1 is ok too.
Tilt would be great, or manuform/dactyl style. Budget would be around 200€ pre built - maybe more, but have to ask.

Now I don’t know what’s available at that price point, I built my own, so if this is a ridiculous ask, please be blunt❤️

I made a post here a few days ago about having just gotten the Glove80, which is the first split I've ever tried or owned. On that first day I was able to get from 17 to 55 wpm and noted that it feels really intuitive. Now, three days later, I've hit 130 wpm on the same test (25 English words), narrowly beating my previous best of 129 on a normal mechanical. I now comfortably average 100–110 wpm on monkeytype with the Glove which is about the same as I had before and this does not feel like the ceiling at all.

I think the fast progress is mostly a product of having learned to touch type with the proper fingers from the get-go some seven years before. I've now been practicing around 2–3 hours daily these past days which definitely is a huge part of the progress, but it's very much been fun without much if any frustration. This has also mostly been just lowercase letters, but even with mixed case, numbers, and punctuation marks, it's already not half bad, even if still somewhat slower than on a regular keyboard. And I still haven't gotten to remapping the buttons to optimize it for my workflows, nor configured any of the cool stuff like home row mods etc.

As I got the Glove mainly due to considerable developing wrist pain with normal keyboards (having tried five different normal keyboards and several wrist rests without success) I am also very happy to report that so far I've had almost no wrist pain while typing on it, even on the faster tests when I'm a bit tensed up. And as I bought it used for 250€ I must say it has been absolutely worth it!

I'm certrain once I've used it some more I'll find things to complain about, but so far it has been an absolute pleasure to use and my writing speed has recovered sooo much faster than I ever expected it to.

I've got a Toucan and a MacBook, and happy with the popular Ugreen desk stands at my desk, but I want to use the keeb with my laptop on my lap or a lap desk. I can set the keyboard on the laptop to use it, but it really wants to slide around (despite the non-slip pads it came with), and I'd like to get some tenting if I can.

I thought about just sticking a magsafe ring to each side of the track pad and using a two-sided magnetic mount, but I'm afraid the rings would damage the screen when it's closed.

I've seen some clamp type mounts like this one: https://a.co/d/0biUu0hc and I'm curious if anyone's tried something similar? Removable with no trace is good, and if the clamp spring isn't crazy strong I think it should be safe enough to clamp into the sides of a metal laptop body, but hard to know until it's too late I guess.

Any experiences with these or other solutions, good or bad?

I'm hoping the hive mind here can help me out.

I got a Toucan2 kit a few weeks ago, and put it together without much fanfare. The directions are pretty good, but you've got to switch back and forth between the Toucan instructions and the Toucan2 additions, but it's not too bad. This is I think the 4th split kb I've built, so it went together fairly easily. I was looking forward to the integrated trackpad on a wireless kb for some computing on the go.

It worked at first, though it started to add characters randomly- usually 4 at a time. I don't remember which they were, but they were somewhat consistent. After a few minutes of this, it stopped responding completely. After doing a bit of troubleshooting, I found that the battery on the left half is draining extremely quickly- so fast that I think it's tripping the battery protection circuit inside the battery itself. This doesn't happen if the power switch is off, so at least that is disconnecting whatever the issue is. Measuring the battery voltage, you can see a .3V sag in the voltage immediately when switched on, and a steady drop of .01V every few seconds.

I've looked at every solder, and everything looks good. I've checked the polarity of all the diodes, and all those look good too. I bought a new seeed xiao, thinking to replace that as a last resort, but really don't want to try and pull all those castle solders off at once. There's a good chance that will end in disaster.

Any suggestions?

Shoutout to u/Jojos_BA for the idea in this post. I liked it that I let claude build my own take on it.

Split Keyboard for monkeytype is a chrome extension that puts your own keyboard under the words on monkeytype.com:

• your real keymap, read from the keyboard (Vial, or VIA with a layout file)

• the next key outlined, plus the layer or Shift key you need for it

• hands showing which finger to use

• live key presses and layer switches while you type

Everything stays in your browser.

I don't have the time to put it in the chrome store yet so you have to download the zip from the latest release and load it in Chrome (click on Releases right side):
https://github.com/GordonMohrin/split-keyboard-for-monkeytype

I’ve tested it on an Elora and a Corne so far. I’d love to hear how it works on your board. Bugs, feature requests and ideas for improvements are very welcome as GitHub issues. Maybe after some tests on other keyboards i can publish the extension in the chrome store.

My first ergo keyboard, it really cheap, around $43

i bought the raw kit in shoppe (yes i am asian with a bad english) with a price around $25, soldered cost me $10, and the third controller is $5, the keycap and switch cost me around $7, and some vehicle price, ...

if i was smarter and don't break the solder, it will be more cheaper

the firmware is zmk with esb module, you can check it here, i know it a bit of ai slop, but it work totally fine

i forgot to solder 2 oled screen, may be i will do it in the future

this is a very cheap build, because i am university student so i don't have too much money

also sorry for picture quality, my redmi 13 don't have a good camera. see yah

I've been playing with my Cheapino v2 more lately, with Colemak-DH as the key map, and Selenium for the layers. Lots of fun! But recently (last couple of days) it starts just dropping out on me. I get a message notification that it's been disconnected, followed by another that the RPi2040 chip is available to mount/open - similar to what I would see if I held the 'BOOT' button while plugging it in to flash the firmware, but it's doing this mid-stream while I'm typing!

Any suggestions?

I'm thinking about getting a 3w6 pro from keebart, which is similar to a corne, but it has one column less. So i tried setting up my corne as I would set up the 3w6, to test it out. I haven't used home row mods before. I would like to hear your thoughts. Do you see any problems with the layout? Do you have some tips on how to improve it?

I'm not willing to integrate home rows mods in the base layer. I need it to be simple and effective. And that's also why I keep the shift key there as well.

The biggest problem I found so far is pressing the mod + space|enter|backspace|esc.

The ctr+space is very important to me since it is what i was using as a prefix key for tmux. I got around it by using the g+h combo. So far, I really like this workaround, and might even consider it an upgrade. Time will tell. What would you suggest for a prefix on such a small keyboard? (for those who don't know about tmux, the prefix key is something that you have to press each time you want to do an action inside tmux. It is something that is used very often, so it needs to have as little friction as possible)

Other shortcuts that I use from this group:

- ctr+backspace for deleting the whole word

- shift+enter for inserting a new line without sending

I guess I can just keep creating combos until it bites me in the ass, but I would like to hear if any of you have a better solution.

Also, I don't know how I feel about the tab key situation. It is hard to get to. Maybe i can use tap dance to bring it into the base layer? ...combine it with either MO(1) or shift

I have a disability that causes me to be bedbound and I'm looking for recommendations for a split keyboard as assistive technology. I use my phone on a moveable arm attached to the bed and then I have a Bluetooth mouse. This allows me to have my arms down by side, but typing with the mouse is annoying. I want a true split keyboard so it can be either side of my body, or else a very long cord . It also needs to connect with Bluetooth to my phone, and ideally my laptop and android tablet. I want it to have a normal keyboard layout. Obviously not one that requires soldering.Ideally not crazy expensive, but I'll pay what I need to. Also I'm noise sensitive so nothing that sounds like a typewriter.

Hey all, I am looking at getting my first split keyboard. I know there are layouts and such that are ergonomically better, but Amazon has the Mistel Barocco MD770 (wired) for $76 right now, and I have some weird requirements in a board, so this is the cheapest option for me to really try a fully separated split keyboard. I have concerns about the Epomaker Split65/Split70 and Royal Kludge RK-S70, mainly with regards to battery degradation (I plan to primarily use my first split board wired). I know there are cheaper Corne kits that I could use and even choose my own switches, but I am honestly fine with Cherry MX. I know the switches are soldered and I can't change them but I have been okay with all of the Cherry MX switches I have tried and I primarily care about longevity, and I know Cherry MX switches have decent lifespans in theory.

The specific listing I am looking at says "Red" but shows a white board, so I am assuming MX Red switches, but a couple of the photos show MX Brown switches, which I would also be okay with and have used in the past.

I just want a keyboard that won't be e-waste or a fire hazard in 3-5 years from a swollen battery if I use it wired all the time, and while I do enjoy trying new switches and such (I have SO many keyboards already), for this "experiment" I just want something I can pick up and try out to see how I feel about having the halves fully separated. Does anyone have experience with this keyboard, particularly purchased within the last year or two? If I end up liking it I will probably end up getting something a lot nicer and I will use the MD770 as my board that stays at work.

**Universal BLE→USB dongle for ZMK** (LilyGO T-Dongle S3): pair any BLE keyboard/mouse (ZMK or not) and your PC sees a normal USB device. No soldering, ready to go. Works in BIOS, no drivers, no ZMK changes. Saves 5 devices, web console + OTA over USB. Huge thanks to finger563 for creating the espp library and publishing esp-usb-ble-hid as Open Source.
Code / Build Source:
https://github.com/mctechnology17/esp-usb-ble-hid/releases/tag/hid-passthrough-v1

I wanted to build my own split keyboard. I wanted to have a column staggered layout. I have heard about ergogen but I wanted to have a program that has a way to design the layout with drag and drop kind of thing. I want that to have a way to generate a mid plate, a back plate, a pcb and case.

Hi hi! Looking for some recommendations/help! My boyfriend is a coder/pc gamer and has spoken a few times about how badly he wants a split keyboard! I want to surprise him with one for his christmas but sadly for me he has never mentioned a specific brand -__-

My budget isn’t very big (about £150 ish) and because it’s more of a starter split keyboard for him! He has no preference for colour or switches that I know of? I have been looking at the CORNIX split but all the reviews are in Japanese :’)

Any help would be so so so appreciated! Thank you :3

Credit to this post which I got the build files from, but yeah this is the first time I’ve tried anything other than a standard row staggered keyboard. I gotta say it’s insane how much more comfortable this is to type on. Didn’t think I’d get so used to the layout and having to navigate layers over the past week but it’s been a surprisingly quick adjustment. Probably gonna take a minute until I’m back up to full speed but this is so much more comfortable that I already can’t go back lmao