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Which keyboard size do you prefer?


This poll is only about the PCB size, not about the layout of the sample keyboards!

reserved.

PCB size? The PCB on my Model M 122-Key Terminal Boards is pretty small…

IBM Aircraft Carrier Boards FTW!

Can someone tell me what board has 4x12? It seems kinda small...

5x14 here

Voted 5x13.5 as its the closest thing.

rodtang wrote:Can someone tell me what board has 4x12? It seems kinda small...

RC-1140 wrote:PCB size? The PCB on my Model M 122-Key Terminal Boards is pretty small…

IBM Aircraft Carrier Boards FTW!

I mean the PCB size where the switches would be placed on.

voted 7x20 having an ~130 key in mind. This I would love. Out of existing ones I'ld say 7x18, 104 key like the cherry 1800.

kint wrote:voted 7x20 having an ~130 key in mind. This I would love. Out of existing ones I'ld say 7x18, 104 key like the cherry 1800.

The 7x20 would be my favourite (plus a numpad). How would your layout look like?

2 × (5×7 + 1×4)

Findecanor wrote:2 × (5×7 + 1×4)

Ey you don't have that yet! (plus it's not an option here )

Findecanor wrote:2 × (5×7 + 1×4)

OK, let's see:

A split keyboard with 5 rows and 7 columns, plus a function row with 4 keys?

hm, maybe you do- it is not an ergodox on second thought...


*edit; then again, if you cut two from the main pcb and move that to the 1x4 which you cut as well, it just might be

7bit wrote:

RC-1140 wrote:PCB size? The PCB on my Model M 122-Key Terminal Boards is pretty small…

IBM Aircraft Carrier Boards FTW!

I mean the PCB size where the switches would be placed on.

Don't you think I don't know this? I just might have used the wrong smiley to mark my statement as ironic... Interesting. Normally I am the one who doesn't get it if you use sarcasm or irony...

But nevermind. I would really love to try a Neo on 7bit layout once, but I would love to have it on an IBM 122-Key Terminal board. The bigger and the more keys the keyboard has the better imho. Tipros might have 122 Keys as well, but they're too small. Honestly I don't get why somebody would want to sacrifice his numpad only to have the mouse closer to the keyboard. I don't use my mouse that often anyway.

RC-1140 wrote:

7bit wrote:

RC-1140 wrote:PCB size? The PCB on my Model M 122-Key Terminal Boards is pretty small…

IBM Aircraft Carrier Boards FTW!

I mean the PCB size where the switches would be placed on.

Don't you think I don't know this? I just might have used the wrong smiley to mark my statement as ironic... Interesting. Normally I am the one who doesn't get it if you use sarcasm or irony...

But nevermind. I would really love to try a Neo on 7bit layout once, but I would love to have it on an IBM 122-Key Terminal board. The bigger and the more keys the keyboard has the better imho. Tipros might have 122 Keys as well, but they're too small. Honestly I don't get why somebody would want to sacrifice his numpad only to have the mouse closer to the keyboard. I don't use my mouse that often anyway.

Tipro, small?

Just attach 2 numbads, one left, one right!

Or 8x16 modules to both sides and beat kbdfr by 8 units!

off wrote:

Findecanor wrote:2 × (5×7 + 1×4)

Ey you don't have that yet!

Only as an ugly prototype.

And I post it because it wasn't among the available options.
Other than that, I would not mind a 5 × 18.5. "Tenkeyless", but I almost never use function keys.

Findecanor wrote:

off wrote:

Findecanor wrote:2 × (5×7 + 1×4)

Ey you don't have that yet!

Only as an ugly prototype.

Pics?
Is it a prototype from clay or actually functional?

findecanor wrote:And I post it because it wasn't among the available options.

Touché!

Seems to be HHKB, platemounted, with LEDs is the favourite!

HHKB FTW

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Who provdies me with free samples of different keyboard sizes so that I'm no longer a keyboard size noob and therefore can vote in this poll?

I am coming to like the Pure better than any other layout I have, mostly for use with the MacBook and iPad, but I'll stick with a TKL Filco for the desktop.

Pure = 5x15?
TKL = 7x19? (gotta account for the gaps)

Of course I voted for the 8x40 Tipro

But I think I will shortly convert it into a somewhat smaller 8x32, i.e. the basis unit (staggered 8x16) with a matrix 8x8 on either side. And then I will connect additional Tipros depending on the specific task I have to perform.

Seems 5x15 will be the winner!

I'm tourn between the Noppoo and the Filco TKL, love em both but I think I like the red switches on my Quick fire rapid better then the Noppoo's brown switches.

So what I really need to do is to desolder all the switches from the noppoo and switch them to reds to know which board I like the best.

Anyone wanna trade? =D

This is about PCB sizes, not layout, nor switches!

7x20 Access-IS AKC127 http://www.access-is.com/pdf/AKC127_Pro ... al_MSR.pdf

388 x 165 mm without MSR for a keyboard with 127 programmable keys, that's just slightly larger than a 10-keyless in
a minimalist-case .

kbdfr wrote:8x40->8x8+8x16+8x16+8x8

..he's the TiproMan!

awesome plan.

5x15 (size of a Poker) is the ideal gaming / laptop keyboard for me, if you can squash in an Fn key and a RAlt.

For typing / data entry, the model F layout works great and yet doesn't take up too much space (if you move the cursor keys to an Fn layer, that is).

Peter wrote:7x20 Access-IS... .

nice, thanks for posting.

7bit wrote:...The 7x20 would be my favourite (plus a numpad). How would your layout look like?

I haven't thought about the exact layout yet - and when I just did I realized it would much rather be 7x22, depending on how tight its packed.


I just don't like the unused space between the F row and the numrow, would place shortcuts (red)/Macros (violet) there, and would like to have a single Macro column (blue) on the left. Apart from that its just media keys (green) and some system keys (orange). Pic up/down moved for keybased web surfing. Pretty much the occasional gaming- web/common used function layout, nothing geeky.
If I'ld really have to pack it in 7x20, perhaps something like this:


edit:
Main concern is just to use the space of the case as efficient as possible in regard to the PCB.