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I could see them being useful for keyboard designs with very few keys, like https://olkb.com/collections/planck https://olkb.com/collections/planck. If you hav
by thomastjeffery 6y ago
I could see them being useful for keyboard designs with very few keys, like https://olkb.com/collections/planck https://olkb.com/collections/planck.
If you have deeply-nested layers, having some way to identify what state your keyboard is in can be helpful. Having screens instead of LEDs is definitely an expensive luxury, though.
- jrockway 6y agoTrue. Personally I have 3 LEDs on my keyboard that I use to show the current layer (in binary). I then carefully numbered my layers so that I use 0, 1, 2, and 4 in preference to others ;)
- _nhynes 6y agoThat’s an interesting idea, actually. A keyboard that could visually identify state might be useful for education: say a typing or Vim tutor. It’d be kind of nifty if a key started flashing so that you could identify its location (for learning a layout), or had a little icon suggesting “insert” or whatever command it triggers. T’would be an expensive teaching tool, though.
- masklinn 6y agoArt.lebedev had full-size keyboards, as well as smaller pads with 3, 6 or 15 keys.