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Ergonomic, split and other weird keyboards

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Posts must be of/about keyboards that have a clear delineation between the left and right halves of the keyboard, column stagger, or both. This includes one-handed (one half doesn't exist, what clearer delineation is that!?)

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¹ split meaning a separation of the halves, whether fixed in place or entirely separate, both are fine.
² ortholinear meaning keys layed out in a grid

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Got RSI from coding at job circa 2016 and bought this baby for $350. I'm using it as long as possible, but I would love a metal splittyboi

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (7 children)

there were a couple projects at one point that did flexible replacement PCBs for the Advantage2 that would upgrade the board to QMK (Stapelberg?) – could use it as an excuse to update switches and keycaps?

[–] dreipunkteinsvier 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Do you know of any projects that include the PCBs for the switches? I've only found the controller PCBs so far.

[–] Skree 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm in the works on a solution with hotswap but I'm not there just yet.

[–] dreipunkteinsvier 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interested to see how that works. What I've heard so far from diy dactyl/Skeletyl builds is that the curvature of the flexible PCB makes some glue or similar necessary.

[–] Skree 1 points 2 years ago

Glue to some extent on the advantage 2 because it doesn't have mounting tabs like the 360 and 360 pro line has.

The BastardKB pcbs look to have the same problems the kinesis does

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