Posts tagged: keyboard

This is a wild key cap that uses a lever to convert horizontal key presses to vertically press the switch down. The leveret v2 uses two of these on thumbs, one to press outward, and what appears to be one straight forward which feels like it would have to be a wrist motion, but who am I to judge without having it in person.

This is the coolest scrappy build, no printer or modeling required, no fancy tools, just straight chisel and claw hammer in soft pine. Im here for it, create the thing that you want to create.

This is a pretty sick design, touch screen macropad, trackball, ring, and knobs for days. I just want to play with it and see what I can make it do.

As I’m typing I think I just realized that its modular, each rectangle is it’s own section!

Even after switching to my hm and ht behaviors I am running into some issues where sometimes I am still accidentally hitting mods(&hm) and layers(&ht) while typing and it’s been getting frustrating. My main issue has been on &ht, they are configured the same so I suspect that my pinkies just move a bit slower over the keys than my pointer/middle finger.

I just added quick-tap-ms and require-prior-idle-ms to my &hm and &ht behaviors, and a few intentionally sloppy passes through monkeytype seem to show that its working well. A few days of trying this will tell whether it was a good fix or if I have maybe gone too far the other way.

The end goal here is to be able to roll over keys faster without worrying about hitting other layers or mods.

I’ve been working on something, I’m gong to combine my mechanical engineering skills with my love of great keyboards and start a custom keyboard shop for building custom keyboards for exactly what people need with an emphasis on portability.

This is a wild keyboard test. This is exactly what I want to see from ticklemykeys.com. I want to make ergomechanical boards that you can use and abuse. I want you to not be afraid to take them with you or to eat a nutrigrain bar in the same room (cough 2015 mac). And If something does go out, I want users to be able to repair it themsleves, key caps, switches, batteries, and microcontrollers should be replacible parts they can get at a good cost from the shop if they have paid for a board.

Today I swapped out all of my keys that are used dual purpose for letters and layers to homerow layers. This prevents goofy things happening when rolling, and prefers-tap makes it so that keys that are rolled over get hit as letters instead of as layers. This was one of my biggest hurdles jumping into zmk, lt as a homerow key just does not behave the same as the ht/hm behaviors with tap-preferred set.

This one space killed my whole config and held me back from learning zmk.

The trackball spinner looks sick here. I can imagine using that spinner like a scroll wheel.

This keyboard layout looks weird af the mix of column staggar and row stagger is wild. Not sure if its genius or an abomination.

That solenoid though is absolutely wild though, I kinda want one TBH.

and the clear plate with the diodes laid out on it in a herringbone pattern is a very nice touch.

Pinout for nice!nano boards. Note that P0.15 means gpio port 0 pin 15, they can be referenced in zmk when setting column and row pins.

Full reference to all of the qmk keycode list. Handy reference to refer to all of the keycodes that qmk has.

Fantastic guide to building handwried keyboards. I used this guide to build my first hand-wired macro pad.