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Another baby step towards building a Dactyl keyboard.

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I bought a Pro Micro, and it's gonna become a macro keyboard that sits in front of my trackball mouse.

So I'm thinking that the thumb key will be a modifier for the finger keys, but we'll see what happens. I'd like to play around with designing an angled box for it.

  • 1 × Arduino Pro Micro
  • 5 × key switches Kailh box navy
  • 5 × 1N4148 diodes I'm afraid of ghosts
  • 12345 × wires
  • 1 × QMK firmware

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Simon Merrett wrote 05/12/2020 at 14:25 • point

Have you considered chording to make it do even more with the same number of keys? Chording is something alien to me but it strikes me as the charlieplexing of the input world.

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Simon Merrett wrote 05/12/2020 at 14:27 • point

Oh, and here's the QMK way into that world. Who knew? https://paulfioravanti.com/blog/2019/04/28/chording-qwerty-with-qmk-combos/

I love the shrinking of letter keys into two rows. Totally justifies ortholinear!

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kristina panos wrote 05/12/2020 at 16:41 • point

That thing is bad ass!

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kristina panos wrote 05/12/2020 at 16:43 • point

I hadn't, but that's an interesting thought. I already have the macro foot stool, so I'm not sure how much more macro capability I need and can reasonably remember.

I picked up an old steno machine a few months ago that I want to modernize or do something with, but I haven't even cleaned it yet.

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Simon Merrett wrote 05/12/2020 at 22:39 • point

I just clicked through to the maker of the board - these are cool: https://www.gboards.ca/products

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