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Building a custom keyboard is pretty high on my list of hobbyist projects that I'd like to do someday. However, I guess I must be pretty crazy because if I was

by Quequau 10y ago

Building a custom keyboard is pretty high on my list of hobbyist projects that I'd like to do someday. However, I guess I must be pretty crazy because if I was to go through all the effort of building my own keyboard, I'd want a keyboard with more keys than all these really tiny micro-keyboards that are so popular. I figure that honestly for some of the lesser used keystrokes I wind up having to look up (for emacs and i3 for example) that having a larger keyboard with more specialized keys would be really useful.

tambourine_man 10y ago
The Atreus has “layers” of easy to press key combos, so it can actually be pretty comfortable for i3, vim, emacs, etc usage. I'd wager it's raison d'être is to be used with such tools. My fear is that I'd become almost incapable of typing on a regular keyboard. I'm already profoundly annoyed when I have to use someone else's setup.
- Quequau 10y ago
  I guess my point is that even after using such tools for years I don't find myself remembering many of the heavily overloaded keystroke combos. Of course it doesn't help that I use a Linux box for development and Mac OS for email and document management... so I'm constantly switching between competing keyboard shortcut systems. I've seen companies offering complete custom laser engraved keycap sets, so that got me thinking that building a really big keyboard, like starting with an old school 104 key with full upper row of function keys and the keypad on the right and adding another similarly sized keypad on the left. I got really psyched up for that keyboard from Art. Lebedev Studio that had the oled key caps but they never were able to get the whole setup to work reliably. I think they're still selling the second generation for some obscene price and given my brief exposure to it I'm not fully convinced it's really comfortable to use for lengthy sessions.

by Quequau 10y ago

tambourine_man 10y ago

The Atreus has “layers” of easy to press key combos, so it can actually be pretty comfortable for i3, vim, emacs, etc usage. I'd wager it's raison d'être is to be used with such tools. My fear is that I'd become almost incapable of typing on a regular keyboard. I'm already profoundly annoyed when I have to use someone else's setup.

Quequau 10y ago
I guess my point is that even after using such tools for years I don't find myself remembering many of the heavily overloaded keystroke combos. Of course it doesn't help that I use a Linux box for development and Mac OS for email and document management... so I'm constantly switching between competing keyboard shortcut systems. I've seen companies offering complete custom laser engraved keycap sets, so that got me thinking that building a really big keyboard, like starting with an old school 104 key with full upper row of function keys and the keypad on the right and adding another similarly sized keypad on the left. I got really psyched up for that keyboard from Art. Lebedev Studio that had the oled key caps but they never were able to get the whole setup to work reliably. I think they're still selling the second generation for some obscene price and given my brief exposure to it I'm not fully convinced it's really comfortable to use for lengthy sessions.