Matt MaguireMar 22, 2025

I recently bought a #ZSA #voyager #MechKeyboard with Choc Pro Red switches. See the link below for a brief review of those switches, plus some further tweaks I made to my #Graphite #altkeyboardlayout for gaming.

https://www.teachmaths.org/20250322-zsa_pro_reds/

ZSA Voyager with Pro Red Switches

I have been so impressed with my ZSA Voyager keyboard that I decided to buy a second one that I could leave set up at work. That meant I needed to think about what configuration to order. Switches On my previous Voyager, I ordered it with the Choc Red 50g linear switches, which felt very smooth, but possibly a little on the heavy side for me. So, I decided to try swapping them out with some Ambient Twilight 35g silent linear switches. I love those switches with their light touch and soft padding at the bottom of their travel.

Matt's Musings
Matt MaguireDec 29, 2024

I've taken the next step on my #AltKeyboardLayout #SplitKeyboard journey where I move from the #Gallium layout to the #Graphite layout. While there is not a huge difference between these two keyboard layouts, the Gallium layout has some punctuation tweaks that might make it easier to type the \( \LaTeX \) code in my lesson handouts.

It was not without some challenges to implement #graphite on my #ZSA #Voyager keyboard though -- I captured some of my journey in this blog article:

https://www.teachmaths.org/20241229_graphite-keyboard-layout/

#ErgoMechKeyboards #Corne #QMK #Vial

Graphite Keyboard Layout

I’ve been using the Gallium keyboard layout for a couple of months now, and I’m pretty happy with it for typing letters. However, I’ve been curious whether I could do any better in terms of punctuation. This has led me to investigate the Graphite layout to see what I might be missing out on.

Matt's Musings
Matt MaguireOct 2, 2024

I've started exploring a modern #AltKeyboardLayout called #Gallium, very similar to the #Graphite layout. It is reported to have a nice flow to it, will see how it compares to the #ISRT (#Colemak based) layout that's I've been using up until now. #MechKeyboard #ErgoKeyboard

https://www.teachmaths.org/index.php/2024/10/02/gallium-keyboard-layout/

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