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Am I still welcome here? Ever since my finger joints started giving out during my translation work I have started to improve my workplace. I have a self built mouseboard to do all clicking with my toes, and plan to improve that thing soon. Future plans include building more plushy button boards as I feel the hard surfaces aren't really helping. Would I find people with similar interests in this community?

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[–] jeroentbt 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds ergo and mech and board to me :) Any chance of a picture, I'm intrigued.

[–] thrawn21 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I second this, I'd love to see pictures and more details.

[–] Svengarlic 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] annoyed_onion 1 points 1 year ago

Fourth. I have a kinesis advantage 2, which I know you can get foot pedals for so I'd like to see what you've done.

[–] crashex 6 points 1 year ago

First ever pics inserted into Lemmy, hope that works. Behold, the redneck mouseboard. Has a height adapter to work from sofa or desk, because the only ergo that really works well for me is changing my position often. The keys on my board are made to be super light, because the only version I found at the time had really heavy keys and it was awful. I slaughtered a cheap mouse and 3D-printed the thingies that hold the mouse-buttons and scroll wheel in place. Scroll wheel has stopped working unfortunately (tiny plastic wheel shaft broke). But the keys work great. I have assigned the middle one to do certain things in my translation workflow, but would like more keys. Which in my current very limited understanding means "add more mice". But there might be more elegant ways, maybe you good people could help.

[–] dashjackson 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I replaced the controller in an infinity transcription pedal with an rp2040, but I'm still hacking at the config in circuit python. Someday I'd like to connect my keyboard, trackball and pedal to an hid remapper and just have oodles of chords and macros.

[–] Necromnomicon 1 points 1 year ago

One of us. One of us. One of us.

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

I would live a footboard that I could use for Missouri keys and layer switching for a qmk like keyboard if possible. I guess the footboard would have to plug in to the keyboard somehow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is a cool idea