I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by cantSpellSober on Thursday August 18, 2022 @02:31PM (#32513236)

Cool, congrats and thanks for sharing, we need more competition here

1. raised/indented keys will get dirty really fast, an option without would sell me

2. 2-device pairing is great, your competitors have 3 though

3. hot-swap keycaps would be a huge sell

4. nice typography, why isn't the logo in it? take off the logo

5. replace the empty area with home => end

6. 3 modifiers on the left, 3 right please! (not 4-left/2-right)

7. options for other keycap sets later?

8. dial is too tall, removable? swappable? jog dial?

9. love the giant esc key, L-shaped enter

10. esc keycap to replace caps would be awesome

11. show me a pic of the full cable/any more details here

12. what are the feet like? foam? rubber? adjustable height?

13. neat website but moves too much, show me a boring gallery of static images somewhere please

14. add clit mouse

15. sustainable material means something to me and makes me more want to buy, really!

16. don't add LEDs, i'd rather save money

17. lmk when it's ergo (cries in carpal tunnel)

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by DoingIsLearning on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:18PM (#32514369)

> 14. add clit mouse

I've tried a lot of really nice mech keyboards but this is the one thing that makes me go back to my 'ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II'. It's super nice to never have to leave home row and I definitely feel the relief in terms of RSI.

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by smoldesu on Thursday August 18, 2022 @05:28PM (#32515128)

The Tex Shinobi is an excellent upgrade if you've got the cash. I've been using one for a few months now and absolutely adore the typing/tracking experience.

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by DoingIsLearning on Friday August 19, 2022 @04:11AM (#32518576)

Did not know about Tex, that is actually an amazing suggestion for my use-case.

Considering the embarassing amount of money I spent on other mechanical keyboards this is definitely in the affordable category.

What switches are you using? I am always afraid of the noise level with mech switches but I have used silent reds and they were ok for me noise wise.

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by smoldesu on Friday August 19, 2022 @11:53AM (#32522564)

I'm using silent reds on my board, but they're a little rattly. If you like linear switches, I'd probably suggest the regular reds for a uniform, smooth feel. The Bluetooth module is also a nice investment, but certainly not necessary.

Again, stupidly expensive keyboard for what it is. However, I can totally see myself picking up another one as backup in a few years. It really is a layout that feels right.

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by confounded on Thursday August 18, 2022 @06:09PM (#32515477)

After spending more time and money than on fancy keyboards than I'd like to admit, two of these side by side (an informal 'split' keyboard) is by far the easiest on my wrists and shoulder blades.

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by ebastler on Thursday August 18, 2022 @06:07PM (#32515460)

2. This one is basically limited by what a 3 position slider (usb/bt1/bt2) can do, the firmware could do up to 5. We could offer an alternative firmware where the slider can do bt1/bt2/bt3, and USB or Bluetooth is automatically determined by whether it's plugged in or not if that helps.

5. That space is needed for the battery, since the board is too slim to place it elsewhere.

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by fredophile on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:31PM (#32514515)

> 17. lmk when it's ergo (cries in carpal tunnel)

I haven't received it yet but a while ago I backed a split mechanical keyboard on kickstarter that I hope will be good for this. If you want to check it out its the keyboardio model 100.

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by ugh123 on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:55PM (#32514774)

Learned a new term today!

> 14. add clit mouse

https://xkcd.com/243/

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by spartanatreyu on Thursday August 18, 2022 @07:16PM (#32515969)

I've just spent so much time right now thinking about the phrase "clit mouse" that I can't remember the official term any more.

And now I'm afraid of what I might automatically say without thinking the next time it happens to come up in conversation.

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by omnimus on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:35PM (#32514544)

4. the logo is great! 13. website is just fine! nice renders

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by cantSpellSober on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:54PM (#32514764)

The logo looks like a designer from today was sent back in time to do the logo for the Apple II. I can recreate it in about 12 seconds going to https://displaay.net/typeface/tobias/ and setting "Altar I" in Tobias Light; it's not even kerned. KERNED!

Website has...character but at some point I just want big pics of the thing

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by omnimus on Saturday August 20, 2022 @08:23AM (#32531500)

That's not the logo it's just a name of the product. Logo is Electronic Materials Office® which i think is rather nice. The fact you can recreate a logo in 12 seconds after you saw it doesn't lower it's qualities - That's the case for majority of logos. The aesthetics of the product clearly references 70s & 80s electronic product design so i yeah it's on purpose. I am not sure what you mean by it not being kerned. It clearly is kerned both in the type tester and on the product - it's function of the typeface and it does it pretty well.

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by hjkl0 on Friday August 19, 2022 @06:50AM (#32519455)

> 6. 3 modifiers on the left, 3 right please! (not 4-left/2-right)

One of the first things I look at. Not very easy to find…

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by redhale on Thursday August 18, 2022 @10:39PM (#32517131)

HN comments never disappoint

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