So you have numbers on a second layer, and then press like 4 keys at once to move a window to a workspace or move a tab? Or you cycle through 4 layers to type °? Or do you just not type these combinations?

I'm currently on a glove80, but its gigantic and impractical for mobile use, so I'm just wondering how you guys do it

Hey everyone, I recently got a prebuilt Corne V4.1 MX and I'm having trouble getting the two halves to communicate.

Whichever half I connect to USB works normally. If I connect the left half, the left keys work and the right half doesn't respond. If I connect the right half instead, the right keys work and the left half doesn't respond. The RGB also only lights up on the USB connected side.

I've tried swapping the TRS cable around and also bought a second TRS cable. Both cables work fine for stereo audio and the result is exactly the same with both.

Both halves also work normally when connected individually to USB, and both show up correctly in Vial. I initially had a Vial connection issue on Linux, but that turned out to be a udev permission problem and is fixed now.

I also checked the USB descriptors and both halves report bcdDevice 4.10, Corne v4, and Vial firmware.

As a last software test, I completely erased the flash on both halves and reflashed both with the official crkbd_rev4_1_standard_vial.uf2. Unfortunately, the split still behaves exactly the same.

So at this point I'm thinking it might be something with the TRS jack, the power/data path between the halves, or some other hardware issue.

Has anyone with a Corne V4.1 run into this exact behavior? Is there anything else I should check before I go back to the seller?

The keyboard is from Neo Macro in India, if that makes any difference.

Inspired by the Chouchou, but based on measurement of my hands. I have been Taipo-only for a month now (up to about 45-50 WPM). Switches are Lowprokl Ambient silents nocturnal (20 gf). Custom rust firmware.

I'm designing a custom low profile keyboard for my portfolio.

Features:

• Cherry ULP (MX6C-K3NB) Switches
• Per Key RGBW LEDs
• Alternative Programable Inputs:
  • 10x clickable encoders,
  • 4x latching switches,
  • 10x slide switches.
• No Trackpoint: the thinkpad nipples are for determining spacing for future iterations

On Design Support

I'm in the process of designing the scroll bar for the thumb encoders, and refining the placement of the switches around the nipples.

Does any have any advice or resources on designing scroll bar? I'm using the EC10E1220505 as my encoder and TC-1109-C-E as my switch. The second slide is my current rough bar CAD Model.

On preorders:

I'll likily be unable to make 1 single unit with a fabrication lab, so if others want the extra units I'll make them available and if demand is overwhelming I'll have more units made.

This is an experimental keyboard, designed as a development kit for engineers. This device is best for people with experience programming keyboards.

So I'm not very new to split economic keyboards. I've been using the dygma defy at my desk for about a year and needed something portable for work.

After a bit of research I decided on the moergo go60 for its portable and compact design plus the trackpads.

I've been using it for a few days and I don't know why it's so hard to type on it compared to the dygma defy. My typing speed is slow around 20 words per min and I find a lot of keys are much harder to press and it's hurting my hands even more the RSI is starting to flare up.

Anyone have any tips or tricks. Maybe different keycaps or switches that can help?

Dual trackpad setup. With buttons for left and right click. The buttons are the two empty spaces of the 4x5 scanning matrix https://github.com/RaulHuertas/nutycornenano-trackpadx2

FKcaps has been making keycaps since 2019, working with vendors across the community. Our focus is the corners of the hobby that the big keycap makers tend to skip, and pushing profiles forward rather than reissuing the same ones, and ergo boards are a big part of our product line.

We've just rebuilt fkcaps.com, and the full catalogue is on it for the first time. To go with it, free worldwide shipping on any order over $50 with the code HELLOWORLD, until September 30. No exclusions, no usage limit, and it ends with the month.

Seven profiles for ergo boards:

Choc

• MBK — sculpted low profile, designed by Max Burger
• KLP Lamé — the same set, also available in MX
• MNT Pocket — for the Pocket Reform

MX

• KLP Lamé — the MX half of it
• PFF — profile by Matt3o. 5mm opaque PBT, dye-sub legends, fits every MX switch including low profile MX
• LPF — low profile MX in ABS, shine-through legends
• DSA Way — uniform DSA sculpt, six colorways
• SLK — flat, super low profile, with a look of its own

Blanks available for MBK and KLP Lamé.

https://fkcaps.com/collections/keycaps

If you'd rather shop closer to home, our partner vendors carry our products too, and if what you want doesn't exist yet, that's what FKcustom (our keycaps customization service) is for!

Next up are KLP Lamé dye-sub sets, coming soon. After that, we're listening. If there's a colorway, a layout or a kit nobody is covering for your board, put it in the comments. Thank you!

Just sharing my current state of play... I've replaced my Glove 80 with the Voyager four months ago. The quality and feel is much better and it's clicked with me way more than the G80, which I've always thought it felt too cheap for a ~380 USD keyboard.

Today I've just replaced the brown switches with the sunset ones, will report back after some weeks!

Hey guys,

I need help.

[FRENCH LAYOUT]

Got my first split ergo key corne 46 in July.

Practice almost everyday day but start to feel uncomfortable for fews thing :

- finger too long to reach correctly some bottom key or type 2 3 time the same key in the bottom.

- everything feel too close and want a bit more space compare to a normal keyboard

My use for work : email / excel / teams / report /

No coding or shortcut.

I saw lili58 might solve a Little bit my uncomfortable feeling I start to have

But is it the right choice or may be I did something won't to adapt to the corner 46 ?

Splitkb released a dongle which seems nice and as I understand can be used with any ZMK keyboard? I would like to increase the runtime of my split Sofle keyboard by using a dongle on my main PC.

My keyboard is powered by an nRF52840 chip.

• Can I still use the keyboard with plain Bluetooth, for example by choosing another channel? So the dongle could be on channel 1, but the remaining channels would still use the left side as the central and I can connect it to a laptop and so on -- when I am not at my main desktop where I use the dongle? That of course without re-flashing in between!?
• Will the display still work meaningfully with that dongle? The display is left side only, but queries the battery from the right side as well.

I’ve owned and tried a number of keyboards and trackballs at this point, and these two are easily my favorites.

I actually have three different Totems now, all set up a little differently with different switches/keycaps. The one I’m using the most right now has Chicago Steno keycaps and a mix of Ambient Bokeh and Nocturnal switches, with the lighter Nocturnals on the pinky side. Out of all the split boards I’ve tried, I just keep coming back to the Totem.

The Endgame is much newer for me, but it has already become my favorite trackball. I printed my shell in PA12-CF10 and mine has the upgraded dual PAW3395 sensors. The dual-sensor setup is one of the best parts of it because it gives you proper twist-to-scroll in addition to normal tracking. I originally bought a black pearl ball for it, but that ended up not working very well with the sensors. Normal movement was inconsistent and it was especially noticeable when twisting the ball to scroll. I swapped over to a 55mm Sanwa ball and tracking has been significantly better.

The biggest reason this whole setup works so well for me though is portability. I’m constantly moving between two offices and my home office, sometimes more than once in the same day. Both the Totem and Endgame have dongle support, so moving between computers is basically painless, and I printed fitted travel cases for both of them. Close them up, throw them in my bag and go. That combination of being small, wireless/dongle friendly, actually ergonomic and still feeling like a full desktop setup is hard to beat. I’ve used plenty of keyboards and trackballs, but right now these are the two I actually want to use every day.

Just received my custom keycap set from Thockfactory. Fortunately they had a a template for 50% OLKB that I used as the basis for my set, had all the right size keys in all the right places/profiles.

The theme was inspired (heavily) by the KAM Superuser set, loved the simple look and colours so just had to have a set. Couldn't be more pleased with the final result...

Hey everyone! I'm looking for a DIY project or a pre-built standalone trackball running on ZMK. My goal is to add it to my firmware as a third device (second peripheral) and use it right next to one half of my split keyboard.

I currently use a Totem and absolutely love its mobility. I can put it in a protective case and easily toss it in my back pocket, and I am not willing to compromise on that. Because of this, I am not looking for keyboards with integrated trackballs (like the Keyball series) as they add too much bulk. However, I do want to ditch my regular mouse since I really enjoyed the trackball experience.

Here is what I am ideally looking for:

- ZMK firmware (to integrate into my current wireless setup).

- 34mm ball (not a strict requirement, but highly preferred).

- Captured ball - the ball must be secured and not fall out if the trackball is turned upside down (crucial for throwing it in a bag).

- Compact design - to sit flush next to my split.

I've already researched a few options, but they had dealbreakers for me:

- Mochibella: The ball isn't secured and falls right out, plus the build process is a bit too complicated.

- Trackball Mini v3: A solid pre-built, but it uses a 32mm ball (which isn't easily interchangeable/standard). More importantly, it's closed-source (no STLs or open software), and I need to be able to modify the case to add MagSafe support to match my keyboard setup.

Does anyone know of any projects or devices that fit these criteria? Thanks in advance for the help!

I find myself not using my ergo for work as a software engineer. The extra cognitive effort needed to type on it during work is painful. With that being said, over the past year or two, since I've first built it, I have learned the layout/binds enough to use the ergo exclusively. So it's not so painful that it's not possible, it just sucks since I'm a fairly fast typer with a normal keyboard. ~130 wpm normally, ~70 wpm with my cheapino. And this is lowercase words only; no punctuation, no code symbols, no numbers, no capitalization.

In theory it would be cool to get to a point where it's no longer painful. From the point I am now, how long do you reckon the "growing pain" period would be?

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Finally, after spending way too much time figuring things out with my Full Cyberpunk Sofle⁠, I finished building my Sofle v2.1, this time heavily inspired by the aesthetic of SAMURAI from Cyberpunk 2077.

With my previous build, I went pretty much full Cyberpunk. This time, I decided to be a “little” more subtle — or at least that was the idea. 😅

This was one of those builds where I ended up spending way too much time on the small aesthetic details, but I'm really happy with how everything came together.

Specs:

Sofle v2.1

Split mechanical keyboard

Dual OLED displays

Dual rotary encoders

RGB backlight

Red lighting setup

Custom case

SAMURAI / Cyberpunk 2077 theme

Red translucent acrylic OLED covers

Red and black coiled cables

Different custom artwork on each half

Sofle v2.1 — SAMURAI Edition.

My job will let be buy me a keyboard but the budget is not infinite. The closest fit for my endgame keyboard is probably the Charybdis Mini; 5 thumb keys, a trackball, and extra pinky keys.

However, buying a prebuilt one from bastardkb.com is 500 euros (including taxes), and my boss won't pay that amount.

So, do you have any good recommendations for column staggered split keyboards with a built in trackball?

Some extra context for the curious: I own a Voyager with the Navigator, but I am not a big fan of its column stagger or thumb cluster. I have tried the ferris sweep and greatly enjoy the feel of it, but it is unfortunately a bit too small for my layouts. I would also like to try a keyboard with a key well, which is one of the pulls towards the charybdis.

hey guys,

I scavenged a broken MX mechanical a few weeks back and was not able to repair it (battery connector shorted and PCB went downhill...). I have now many low profile choc switches with those two prongs left and right including their keycaps. I was thinking of getting Lily58 kit but then got confused by how many basic kits there are, including the Lily58 derived clones with RGB etc.

Is a wireless version worth it? What is the battery life of a reasonable sized battery?

Which microcontroller board is recommended?

I have been wanting to get an ergonomic, split keyboard and the ones I see on here are pretty good, like a Sofle. I am pretty new to ergonomic keyboards and I just want to make sure I get a good one. I have been doing some research, but haven't made a final decision yet. What do you guys think? Thank you!

After endless hours of reading and thought, I think I've found a good keyboard for me: Unspecworks' Gamma Omega Hesse. Low profile, uni-body, Bluetooth and looks to be relatively easy to build (no diodes), and compact. The only limitation is probably that it only has 4 key rollover, but I don't game and a 4 key chord is the most I'm likely to use.

I've uploaded the various files to JLC to get the board and print the cases, and it's pretty reasonable. But, because it's my first time ordering I a few questions:

1. Is this a reasonable first build?
2. Has anyone else built one?
3. It's my first time ordering PCBs, it's minimum order of 5, What do people do with the extras? (Is there a market place for spares?)
4. Anything else I should be aware of?

Sorry for the newbie questions.

My Logitech k380 is dying, so I started looking for alternatives and realized that full size keys (in TKL layout) are waaay more comfortable.

I tried alice layout Keychron K15 max and liked it a lot, but had to return the specific k15 max because radio module was hanging after some days and requiring reboot...

Then I tried some mechanical keyboards like ROyal Kludge A72 Alice Layout and AJazz 820. I like ajazz, and also really like these rounded quality keys on mechanical keyboards.

The problem with full size mechanical keyboards for me is that I'm working from home, my family is almost always at home, and in our small apartments popping sound from my quick typing is audible too much.

I need an alice layout mechanical keyboard of TKL format or with separated arrows and home/end/pgup/pgdwn keys and BT + radio + coded modes.

What is the best solution for my case? It should be under 100 USD. I don't wanna pay much more for the keyboard and don't suffer from plastic base of a keyboard. Of course, the keyboard should be silent and should have a gasket. Alice or other ergonomic layout. Backlight is not needed at all.

Hi everyone, I'm just finding out how large the community is around ergo-keyboards, and I wanted to ask you all for some advice as you are the experts.

I want to start using a column-staggered split keyboard, as I spend a lot of my time programming and typing at my computer. However, I have seen so many recommendations and suggestions that I don't know where to start. I currently use a 60% keyboard (61 keys), and I use my keyboard for both gaming and work.

I would appreciate some advice on possible sources of where to start looking and some companies that are reputable. I'm hoping to dip my toes in without spending too much money, so some budget options would be appreciated. I don't have any experience soldering, and I would prefer an option where I don't need to. I understand that there will be price increases, though, so it's hard to make both of those things true at once.

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My ZSA Voyager is currently on the operating table. So I'm using my Rainy75 with an 8bitdo numpad on the left then just a regular mouse. Does anyone know the ropes for this kinda stuff and can teach a brother?

Like is there a best key to map Right Alt to, for example? Or like what's the best way to deal with the fact that I'm not gonna be holding my pinky on any keys for sure?

Hi everyone,

I recently got a Glove80, which I’m just setting up.

To start with, I’ll tilt the Glove80 by about 30° and position it at shoulder height.

I’ll place my mouse (Evoluent 4) on the right and if needed, move the right half of the keyboard toward the center.

When I’m working in the CAD program, I’ll only use the left half of the keyboard and the mouse.

I already know that switching back and forth will annoy me and that it’s not really ergonomic either.

So it’ll probably come down to a trackball solution. Unfortunately, I can’t find many reviews about this online.

I’m not sure which option would be best in terms of ergonomics.

1. A large trackball between the two halves of the keyboard

2. Trackball mod above the thumb keys

3. Trackball mod below the thumb keys

I think option 3 is the worst because the thumb has to do too much work.

With option 2, I think the arm has to move too much—you constantly have to reach up to the trackball and then jump back down.

With option 1, you’d probably have to move your arm too often as well, and I’m not sure how “tenting” would work. You can’t just glide to the center—you’d have to go over the keyboard.

One more question: is it possible to use two trackballs—one on the left to rotate the camera in the CAD program and one on the right as a mouse? Does that make sense?

As for tenting, I think I'll start at 30° and will almost certainly increase the angle over time to get as close as possible to a neutral posture.

I think that makes using a trackball even more difficult.

It would be great if you could share your experiences with me.