Not observant myself, but best wishes to those of the faith. My first ever hand-wired keyboard was a Planck with an extra column.
Can’t do these. For me, it’s 100% or nothing. I need my numpad and spacing around the arrow keys.
I made a lot of my own boards, and the three I use the most are:
- One that’s basically a “Tenkeyless”, but I keep an external numpad nearby.
- One that has a numpad but everything’s kind of compressed and I use “Fn+number” to get the F keys. That one has a speck of UV resin on down-arrow so I can find it without looking.
- One that is still a bit compact in layout, but has 117 keys, including a big red industrial pushbutton and a volume knob.
As fond as I am of this little guy, I just don’t use it very often.
Would it be possible to have pictures of the boards you mentioned as well? You got me curious !
“TKL like”. This one actually has a couple of siblings because it was not much more expensive to order extra aluminum plates.
Wow, some people will just not hear about living without their ISO enter, huh? 😉
Even though I didn’t quite fall in love with the general idea of ortho, I’m still pretty pleased with myself. Bigger enter, proper arrow keys, and no missing punctuation. Good compromise for a bit of extra pinky movement, and no reason you couldn’t just map it out as a as normal Planck with a trio of media keys or macros.
That is even 1 key less than I have. ^^ 39%?
There are people who daily the real thing, with 47 or 48 keys. I couldn’t do it, even with this one visually preserving more of the “standard” layout. Turned out I liked building boards more than learning to use them.
I daily one with 42 keys and I almost never use 2 of them.
I’m guessing… Corne?
Something I cooked up, it’s a regular horizontal staggered board but other than that very similar to the Corne indeed.
Were key-board ergonomics not invented until the 90’s or something? A perfect grid for the key’s is a nightmare to actually type on or use. This was figured out during the type-writer heyday.
I’ve bought the elvish keycaps myself and I find your Planck so damn elegant. Where did you buy it?
Thanks! My keycaps there are just Matcha clones from Ali Express, and I made the board myself from my 3D printer and a board of maple hard-wood that I had around.
I wired the switches to the Rasperry Pi Pico by hand. It is a little bit tall for a Planck, maybe 35mm with full-height keycaps, and to be honest I found I just prefer more keys and a regular column stagger, but I am fairly pleased at how the extra three keys make the layout easier for an “ortho noob”.
