deskthority

JP! wrote: ↑

22 Jun 2020, 04:38

Outdoor desks are nice but how about a public typewriter / keyboard bar?


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I finally know how to finance my keyboard adiction: by selling ear plugs!!!

ddrfraser1 wrote: ↑

21 Jun 2020, 18:45

Working on my book


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The stepped ISO Enter (ok, Field Exit) key in a small shrine does not escape notice.

VERY nice pictures.

Those outer steppings on Enter (even if BAE), RShift and RCtrl would have been a boon, if they still existed, on compact layouts (65% and 75%).

Zimyver wrote: ↑

15 Jun 2020, 13:05

Will also need to implement a mode so that the solenoid only activates with the return key.

s/return key/space bar/

Twst wrote: ↑

13 Jun 2020, 20:22

Been tweaking the solenoid sound, and have settled on a little plywood glued inside to fire on.

Lovely. Now the quest for the best wood type begins!

When you are (okay, used to be) a photography buff and you realize you now have more keyboards than camera lenses.

Besides making a cool case/stand for this keyboard... do ALL the PCB traces actually backtrace to a key that is present? How many more switches (assuming they can be procured) could be fitted into chyros' drop-in module? There is certainly enough unused space... but could it be filled in?

JP! wrote: ↑

07 Jun 2020, 02:19

kelvinhall05 wrote: ↑

07 Jun 2020, 01:44

Chyros, maybe try 3D printing a case for it?

Better yet take some inspiration from OldIsNew with this exquisite old-world craftsmanship.

Marvelous.

Couple comments on the video: 1) The layout, alien as it is to modern eyes, is clearly for a "Data Entry" keyboard. There's plenty of later keyboards with the same layout for the alphas (even IBM Unsavers). 2) I would submit that the first "truly widely adopted keyboard standard" isn't the XT layout...

I've had to plead the Fifth on the motivation for my own online handle (what the young whippersnappers call "Internet nickname") so many times that I sometimes wonder if I should just discard it and start being known as "IPleadTheFifth".

zrrion wrote: ↑

02 Jun 2020, 03:02

I've been unironically toying with the idea
an ortho board with only 12u is still pretty workable so 14 should be a piece of cake

I'd answer this, but it would go excessively off-topic. We need a subforum dedicated specifically to layouting (my favourite subject, as it happens to be).

we're trying to whine here, Mister! I can whine too then, unicomp should chop it down to 14u and change the bottom row to 1.25-1-1.25-3.5-3.5-1.25-1-1.25 which is the bottom row of champions. An alpha block that is fourteen units wide? The Roman God Tecladius shall smite you for this aberration. Yo...

Unicomp's current design is the most economical compromise for people who really need 2 windows keys (unsure exactly what you would need 2 for but its there for folks that need it ig) and with a spacebar swap can be switched to 1.5-1-1.5-7-1.5-1-1.5, which is the best 15u bottom row anyway. Any "im...

kmnov2017 wrote: ↑

01 Jun 2020, 18:41

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You can use two blank right shifts as an alternative...

Not concave...

Can you replace the spacebar with a longer one, in order to remove that horrible button on the right that takes the place of the alt gr? What are you talking about? The RALT key (Alt or AltGr) is in the correct position and is of the correct size (1.5u). They had every opportunity to fix the bottom...

That clip! So many keyboards, so many monitors, the entire "banking section", all connected to the computer.


OTOH, I have one laptop and 40+ keyboards, so who am I to complain?


Thanks for sharing, Ellipse.

Can you replace the spacebar with a longer one, in order to remove that horrible button on the right that takes the place of the alt gr? What are you talking about? The RALT key (Alt or AltGr) is in the correct position and is of the correct size (1.5u). That 1.25U RGUI key, however, could well dis...

The dye-subbing seems fine... until you notice the differing vertical alignment in Backspace/Enter/nav cluster. :-/

Now here's the LTT problem: do we want James, the ergonomic freak, to do the review, or Luke, the normal mechanical keyboard guru who's a bit out of touch with the scene? Neither are ideal. I bet Linus would love them though. Neither. James would spew crap, Luke would have no idea, and Linus would ...

sharktastica wrote: ↑

30 May 2020, 22:13

If only I had a kishsaver to fill the gap...
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This reminds me of...

"Big Ass Enter" — the enormous Enter key that the F AT introduced to the world and keeps on living, despite it deserving to die already. Heh, BAE is great, the real problem is that most keyboards tend to pair it with a tiny backspace :) That is indeed the true sin of the BAE: the 1U Backspace. Not ...

sharktastica wrote: ↑

29 May 2020, 20:16

ddrfraser1 wrote: ↑

29 May 2020, 18:22

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2.59kg in 21st Century units!

And 2.59 kg in 19th Century (*) units as well... which is precisely the point.


(*) (late 18th Century, if we get really pedantic)

"Big Ass Enter" — the enormous Enter key that the F AT introduced to the world and keeps on living, despite it deserving to die already.

ddrfraser1 wrote: ↑

25 May 2020, 15:01

Holy shit... that guy has a landline

A functioning one, too.

ddrfraser1 wrote: ↑

20 May 2020, 23:30

Behold!

This was by far the most time consuming 'build' ever. I started resembling this thing at 9 am. It is now 4:30. I encountered a problem at nearly every step of the process.

Wonderful sight.

For me, the real question is "Given this thing is rather large, WHY did they bother to cut off 0.25U from the main alpha block?". There seems to be no good reason for it.

Well... on one hand, deleting the account would mean its assocciated posts would disappear, and that's not good. On the other hand, keeping it around would present an opportunity for spammers. I wonder if we got a gripping hand available, in the form of the forum's software having the ability of per...

So I took a moment to watch the ad on Youtube.

I'll leave this here before abandoning the horse for dead:

note that the asymmetric placement of the key on the exemple you brought up is absolute despiseful though No disagreement here, either! The real problem in that Logitech board (besides the presence of a "Logitech key" in the first place, of course) is that the separations between each block is smal...

consensual-penis wrote: ↑

18 May 2020, 22:24

Has someone or will someone make a visual configurator for these boards?

If QMK support becomes good enough, the people in charge of QMK Configurator will surely waste no time in adding support to the F62/F77 boards.