Great job. I’m so happy the Cheapino is getting popular, amazing to have such a low cost to try out and get access to ergonomic keyboards. Now that I’ve got used to mine I can justify upgrading to a Charybdis nano knowing I’ll use it and 34-35 keys is usable.
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It’s for efficiency and ergonomics. Your fingers never need to move further than one key away. Your pinkies will thank you for not having to use all those keys.
It is definitely a transition. I swapped from a tkl down to a Cheapino as well. My suggestion is to continue to use the tkl at work to maintain productivity, but swap in throughout the day to do some monkey type etc. Then use it in your personal life until you build up some comfort. Took me like a week to start using it at work (I also swapped to Colmak-dh kind I’d recommend that to setup a different set of muscle memory) and I kept my old keyboard close hahaha. After a few weeks I could never go back. Moving my fingers to arrow keys functions numbers backspace etc just feels way to far away and slow. Maybe making your own layout for symbols etc will help? You can set it up to be closer to a regular keyboard https://youtu.be/yiwUjLaebuw?si=pWlr8h7JtgrERTzV
Might be also easier for you to swap to something like the ZSA Voyager where you would have more keys at first. Good luck!
Nice! Love seeing all the Cheapinos, soft spot in my heart for it. And feels great to see people get ergonomic options for cheap
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They use cheaper parts from when I was pricing things out.
Where would I find these smartphone holders
Because they are really cheap to build. Mine was about $50 USD total. Really nice way to get into ergonomic keyboards.
Let me know if you run into any more issues. Also make post we all want to see new builds :)
Yeah it was my first time with QMK as well. You can try emailing the creator they are really nice.
You need to you need to use git to clone his branch of QMK then follow GMKs instructions to make the build enviroment. Once you have that setup run the make command. Then to flash the firmware you hold down the boot button while plugging in the keyboard. Just drag the uf2 file into the microcontrollers drive that shows up.
Yep. I used a Chromebook pixel in college with Linux on it. Worked pretty well
Charybdis nano would be the one to go for then. 35 Keys and a trackball. https://github.com/Bastardkb/Charybdis
Or the Flow if you like that style more and would prefer a more hand wired pi pico style build https://github.com/jsallan/flow