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[–] overby 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could use a corne and break off the outer column

[–] FearlessSpiff 2 points 1 year ago

Yes that's what I am gonna try now. Thanks. Just don't know what to do with the two extra keys... ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Corne-ish Zen?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

have you considered just building a corne, snapping off the 6th column (as most corne PCBs allow) and only soldering 2 of keys in the thumb cluster?

(it's 34, btw, the sweep has 34 keys)

[–] FearlessSpiff 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. Ordered a Corne. Will break of the outer column. And thanks for the correction. Updated the post

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It all depends on what sort of mashup you want exactly. Keep in mind that some of the official cornes have a break-off 6th column so you can get close to the same key count as a Sweep (36 instead of 34). Here are some that might come close.

[–] FearlessSpiff 1 points 1 year ago

Nice. Thanks

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When you say "stagger", do you mean not-ortholinear? If so, I'm confused as both the Sweep and Corne are ortholinear.

[–] Ar7h 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's a habit among ergo keyboard enthusiasts to refer to columnar staggered keyboards as "ortholinear". Ortholinear became a term for anything that's not row staggered like a traditional keyboard, even though it's not technically correct. Columnar stagger is a more corrrect term for stuff like corne or sweep. I mean I get it. I could switch between an ortho and a collumnar stagger pretty easily, but every time I have to type on a "normal" keyboard I fall flat on my face.

The OP means the similar vertical offsets as it's found on the corne (3/8u for the pinky and 1/8u for the rest, I believe).

[–] FearlessSpiff 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. Correct. I mixed it up again. I mean the vertical offset of course. Thanks for clarifying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If so, I’m confused as both the Sweep and Corne are ortholinear.

no they aren't, they're colstaggered.

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