My Journey From Mechanical to Ergonomic Keyboards | New ErgoMech Open Sourced (Kaly42) + Video!
https://lemmy.world/post/3042104
My Journey From Mechanical to Ergonomic Keyboards | New ErgoMech Open Sourced (Kaly42) + Video! - Lemmy.world
Hello everyone! I recently open sourced the Kaly42, a cheap split Ergonomic
Mechanical Keyboard and, to celebrate the occasion, have decided to tell the
story of how I went from a standard mechanical keyboard to the CSTC40 and
eventually to designing and building a new keyboard! The files are available
here [https://github.com/Dwctor/Kaly] and the video here!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhxM8o__9Xo] If any of that interests you,
please check them out, it would mean a lot to me!
New EMK joins the Family! Meet Kaly the Caliper!
https://lemmy.world/post/1589095
New EMK joins the Family! Meet Kaly the Caliper! - Lemmy.world
Hi EMK community! I have been lurking the old Reddit and this new instance for
quite a while, and after some time with the CSTC40 (plank-like) I decided that I
wanted my own ErgoMechKeyboard. However, I had 0 experience in making one and
initially planned on a Cantor [https://github.com/diepala/cantor] (affordable,
easy to build, already supported). However, the more I thought of it, the more I
disliked some design decisions of the Cantor [https://github.com/diepala/cantor]
[still a great board! Just don’t think it would be for me], like I couldn’t find
any Ergogen file for it, I strongly was against a thumb cluster where I could
only type the two inner thumb keys (the ones you fold your thumb in to type) (a
problem with almost all 3x6+3 I have seen, as they are waaay to tucked in for
me) and I wanted it to have a small mascot, like the Ferris Sweep had! From
that, I decided that I would build my own, from scratch in Ergogen through to
KiCad and learning to solder. It was a wild ride with more than 2 months of work
and waiting, but here it is! The core ideas that I tried to follow when making
this keyboard was for it to be affordable, cute and have all of the keys be
reachable. It uses a blackpill and choc v1 switches (my one uses 20g chocs), a
trrs conector and type c connectivity. Currently I set my one up with vial and
10 layers and it has worked well so far (started typing on it 2 hours ago or so
and got to 80wpm). And the good news: I will be open-sourcing ALL of it for
anyone to build, modify, improve and have fun with it together with a few videos
on how I made it (the full process from the keyboard idea to the finished
product) and how anyone can get started doing the same! But, these are plans for
the future, when I have a bit more time in my hands, so please be patient and it
will be here! And here are a few more pictures for those that read through all
of it: Keyboard Close HL0mR9I.th.jpg
[https://iili.io/HL0mR9I.th.jpg]https://freeimage.host/i/HL0mR9I Kaly Close
HL0mu8N.th.jpg [https://iili.io/HL0mu8N.th.jpg]https://freeimage.host/i/HL0mu8N
Kaly in plants HL0mIFR.th.jpg
[https://iili.io/HL0mIFR.th.jpg]https://freeimage.host/i/HL0mIFR Kaly and
Caliper HL0m7wX.th.jpg
[https://iili.io/HL0m7wX.th.jpg]https://freeimage.host/i/HL0m7wX With cable
HL0mYtn.th.jpg [https://iili.io/HL0mYtn.th.jpg]https://freeimage.host/i/HL0mYtn
Exposed Switches HL0mTap.th.jpg
[https://iili.io/HL0mTap.th.jpg]https://freeimage.host/i/HL0mTap
