I was thinking of having separate halves (like the Utron) and placing the trackball in the middle. It could be too centered though.

I think it would make more sense to have the trackball fixed to one of the two halves, if you have halves. The problem is that if you offer a split layout, some people might want them split more than others, meaning the distance to the trackball (in the middle) would grow and might eventually end up unreachable without moving your hands.

Of course this is all another story if you only design the keyboard for yourself.

Good point, but I was mostly concerned with having the mousing arm in a comfortable position. Mine tend to be very close to the keyboard, but I can't try to have the mouse in the dead centre. If you have a totally split keyboard you could place a trackball to the left edge of the right keyboard.

Just a stupid question:

These industrial cases:


Are they currently available from Unicomp?

They were. I believe they are entirely sold out now.

sixty wrote:I wonder how Chuck managed to lose all the bottoms for those tops. Weird coincidence. I bet in a few years if they last that long) he will tell everyone he has only bottoms left.

The tops are sold out.

As for the RGB set on a Customizer - the shifts and Ctrls will fit, but the Alts on the Customizer are a smaller size to make way for the Windows keys.