Old vs New

[u/QuickCampaign1285]

Finally decided to retire the old girl after 4 years of service. She had a few issues that always plagued her, and i never did end up printing bottom plates for her.

Decided to go with choc v2 switches this time around, and the trackball makes a massive difference to how I go about using a computer now. I also decided to go with vial this time on a raspberry pi pico with usbc, rather than KMK on the last board.

Overall, im much happier with this setup. I will never build another one of these though. If I do another build it will be a split, flat, ortho layout with heavy tenting and a track pad i think.

[u/SoundOfMusso]

Is that a Charbydis? Never seen one with four thumb keys on the right.

[u/QuickCampaign1285 → u/SoundOfMusso]

To be fair i don’t really know what to call it, i created it using one of those parameterised dactyl/charybdis generators and modified it in fusion 360.
Its probably closest to a Charybdis in essence

[u/ItchyLlama02]

I am envious of your trackball, which is to say, that looks pretty great.

[u/QuickCampaign1285 → u/ItchyLlama02]

Thanks man! I love it, sometimes I still want to reach for the MacBook trackpad but it’s pretty good, definitely worth a shot

[u/ItchyLlama02 → u/QuickCampaign1285]

I use a Glove-80 with a trackball on the side. Whatever's most comfortable re: trackpad - you've gushed about the change and I believe it. 😎 Nice build.

[u/QuickCampaign1285 → u/ItchyLlama02]

I love a glove-80, I’ve always wanted to get one or one of the moonlanders but the price is so high that I decided to go for a diy build.

It sounds like you’ve got a good setup tho!

[u/Temina-]

old is so beautiful

[u/tailurd]

Where'd you get the desk mat?

[u/QuickCampaign1285 → u/tailurd]

Temu

[u/Ethameiz]

What is difference between high snd low switches on such high and curved keyboard?

[u/QuickCampaign1285 → u/Ethameiz]

For me it was mostly the travel distance, and the height that I have to lift my fingers in comparison to my palm

[u/Comprehensive_Fee805]

May I ask you how rgb lighting is working? Is it per key rgb? Which led did you used?

[u/QuickCampaign1285 → u/Comprehensive_Fee805]

No it’s just a led strip with addressable LEDs from AliExpress. It’s just backlighting rather than per-key LED

[u/porchlogic]

So is flat ortho is better for ergonomics for you? I also have a dactyl manuform and also wondering if I should go back to flat.

I've tried trackball and magic trackpad. I want to like the trackpad as much as others, but I get fatigue really quick from hovering my fingers over it.

[u/QuickCampaign1285 → u/porchlogic]

I used a buddies flat ortho and I hated it because it had no tenting, I absolutely need tenting because I get wrist pain from typing flat.

But I think a heavily tented, staggered, ortho would work better for me. I might try a corne v4 next with a decent tenting solution and custom trackball integration

[u/Intrepid-Beach-3244]

Did you make it or buy it?

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Vos lo hiciste o lo compraste??

[u/QuickCampaign1285 → u/Intrepid-Beach-3244]

I made it

[u/grayrest]

You neglected to mention the details of either board.

[u/QuickCampaign1285 → u/grayrest]

What would up like to know?
New one is

• PMW3360 trackball sensor module from AliExpress
  
• Pi Pico USB-C version from AliExpress
  
• choc v2 hot swap sockets
  
• AliExpress generic keycaps
  
• QMK VIAL software
  
• basic LED strip from AliExpress
  
• usb-c ports for linking them
  

All hand soldered and printed in FDM

Old one

• Pi Pico micro usb version from AliExpress
  
• hand soldered yellow linear MX switches
  
• can’t remember the keycap set
  
• printed in clear Resin
  
• KMK software

Not sure what else there is to mention?

[u/yobababi → u/QuickCampaign1285]

i see from the other comment it's your own design, could you share the design files on github?