9 days ago, I finally got sick of typing on my laptop keyboard, so I came up with a free solution to let me use my Dactyl Lynx on the laptop.

It's not pretty, but it functions, and lets me type on my laptop with marginally less pain, even though I'm still using it on my lap. I look forward to moving back into a more permanent house so I can use a real desk again.

I made everything easy to remove - the corners are small pieces of cardboard taped on that just hook onto the corners of the laptop, and the keyboard is just held in place with little "boots" of tape that are attached to the cardboard - you can see one in the middle of the photo. This means I can still take the keyboard off the laptop and use it on a table without any issue.

A few days after doing that hack, the already cracked right half of my keyboard fell off the laptop, and broke even more. It's still technically usable, but I'm now missing the key in the lower-right corner, and I will probably have to glue this back together soon, until I'm able to set up my 3D printer again.

I realized that these cracks are only happening on the right hand side of my keyboard, and I think I figured out why: while the left side was printed in some very nice Overture matte PLA, the right side was printed in some cheap standard black PLA which was already more brittle even before printing. (this filament ended up cracking in the bowden tube a couple of times during the time I had it loaded in the printer) This just goes to demonstrate that material quality really does matter, especially for something like an input device that will be subjected to a decent amount of stress. Next time I'll get the Overture matte black PLA again, since it's affordable but also not anywhere near as brittle.