obrajesse

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by obrajesse 13y ago
Yes, yes I have. One of my all-time favorite keyboards is my IBM M15: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/obra/8410679346/ If I could get buckling springs as keyswitch units, I'd be using em. I've trie
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by obrajesse 13y ago
What's actually causing the pain could be any number of things, which is why I was shouting about going to see a doctor ;)
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by obrajesse 13y ago
You want to look up 'chording keyboards' - They're one of the few things from Engelbart's 'Mother Of All Demos' that's not now a standard part of computing.
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by obrajesse 13y ago
If your fingertips get numb while typing, STOP TYPING AND GO SEE A DOCTOR. Ideally a doctor who specializes in Sports Medicine. I'm not kidding. This is _not_ something to screw around with. And there are all sorts of reasons why zero-
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by obrajesse 13y ago
Tiny dots of Sugru. (Alternatively, many folks recommend you _not_ relabel your keys when trying to learn a new layout.)
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by obrajesse 13y ago
Heh. I've considered it. "Maybe" There are some other switch technologies I'd want to try first. But fabbing our own switches gets expensive fast.
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by obrajesse 13y ago
Exactly.
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by obrajesse 13y ago
"Just" learning Dvorak isn't necessarily going to help people. For me, the angles I need to keep my wrists at to type on a traditional keyboard are a showstopper, no matter what layout I'm using. I've previously tau
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by obrajesse 13y ago
It was very close to a 60% keyboard. It just wasn't better enough than a 60% keyboard to really be worth my while. I find the split layout to be a lot more comfortable. And I didn't even touch-type when I fell down this rabbit hol
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by obrajesse 13y ago
Hm? There are only two keys that actually sit under the heels of your hands. And the keyboard is designed with a higher top plate than usual so that resting your palms on the butterfly's wings puts your hands in a fairly neutral positi
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by obrajesse 13y ago
Awesome. I'm looking forward to it.
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by obrajesse 13y ago
Not sayin', but you're getting warmer.
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by obrajesse 13y ago
I don't have a number I'm ready to share in public. That's the big thing that's holding up a Kickstarter. Once we've got a manufacturing partner and know what our costs are, I'll be in a better place to give yo
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by obrajesse 13y ago
That is a matter of some debate. Even in the scientific literature. But I do know that when it hurts less for me to type, I can type for longer stretches. And that's way more important to me than typing faster.
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by obrajesse 13y ago
I do too! And we'll get back to it. But I know that if we tried to ship a splittable keyboard as our first product, we'd fuck it up. And I really don't want to fuck this up.
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by obrajesse 13y ago
Yeah. That's where I started last year. (I 3D printed one before the PCBs were done.) - blog.fsck.com/2013/01/pinkies-and-your-brain.html
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by obrajesse 13y ago
There have been a few, but there aren't any in production right now, as far as I know. http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=47590.30 may have some leads.
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by obrajesse 13y ago
It depends. Where do you live? (And yeah, I spent a decade carrying a MS Natural Elite with me all over the planet. I used to order 'em in four-packs.)
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by obrajesse 13y ago
Actually, I _started_ from an ErgoDox. :) ( http://blog.fsck.com/2013/01/pinkies-and-your-brain.html ) The ErgoDox is really the two halves of a Kinesis flattened. Keyboard.IO is a little bit different. There&#x27
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by obrajesse 13y ago
It'll be Cherry switches. Depending on who we end up with for a manufacturing partner, we may be able to offer a wide variety of switch options. If we can only pick one, I'd probably run with Cherry Browns. They feel a lot like th
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by obrajesse 13y ago
Thanks! I'm pretty excited.
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by obrajesse 13y ago
The Datahand is awesome. It does a lot of stuff very, very right. I was never really able to get up to speed on mine. There's actually a hobbyist project to reproduce the Datahand right now over at geekhack.org
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by obrajesse 13y ago
I think the thumb layout is more comfortable and easier to use. Kinesis users I've put in front of my prototypes come up to speed pretty quickly. Non-kinesis users seem to come up to speed a lot faster than they do when confronted with
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by obrajesse 13y ago
Heh. Thankfully, no. I was really hopeful that the Leap Motion was going to be 'the right thing', but I'm pretty sure that anything that requires you to move your wrist to use is going to be a lose. I'm not 100% sure we&
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by obrajesse 13y ago
That's what the Maltron does. I don't find it all that comfortable. I've actually got something better up my sleeve, but I'm still working on sourcing the parts.
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Prototype ergonomic mechanical keyboards(blog.fsck.com)
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by obrajesse 14y ago
"Perl 5" is a programming language. So is "Perl 6". They're sister languages, not competitors. This release will be "Perl 5" version 20. As the guy who was responsible for 5.12 and 5.14, I think this is a horrible idea. It'd lead to incredi
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by obrajesse 14y ago
For keycaps, you can often find mechanical keyboards at goodwill. Failing that, there are many companies that will sell keycap sets to you (Like WASD) For the shells, yes, those will cost a bit of money. Or you could make friends at your lo
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by obrajesse 14y ago
Right. I'd meant to write up the pricing. Keys - $0.80 x 78 Diodes - $2-$3 3D printed shells - $240 from Shapeways. Cheaper from a friend with a makerbot Keycaps - Cheapest when harvested from a board found at goodwill. Otherwise, $35 or so
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by obrajesse 14y ago
Actually, I do. That's part of what has made this design challenging for me. The next thing I build will have a ...somewhat different layout.

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