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Reply to Trying out a small felt desk-pad. This wood desk is too nice to cover entirely. by JRufer

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dsarma t1_j9cxdp4 wrote

Reply to comment by JimmyTheDoor in 2023 Keyboard Building Guide. by JimmyTheDoor

It’s that I have these big honkin’ hands, and I use excel pretty much all day to get masses of numbers from one place to another. I have my own private office with three monitors set up at my work station. I don’t care about saving space on my desk. I want that comfort that comes from having my keyboard packed with all the keys.

I don’t like using the mouse too much, so tend towards keyboard shortcuts. It’s also helpful that I can go into system settings and map specific keys to shortcuts, so I can press that one Prt Scr button rather than (for example) cmd + shift + 4. I’ve got your guide here easy to find if I ever decide to make any changes.

The keyboard is supposedly not swap, and has Bluetooth and wired modes. We shall see though. Fingers crossed.

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Reply to Noir by Crowstrum

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Reply to My creative workspace. by polysculpture

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JimmyTheDoor OP t1_j9cmb32 wrote

Reply to comment by dsarma in 2023 Keyboard Building Guide. by JimmyTheDoor

I know where you're coming from, at first I wanted a 100% layout since I was so used to it. I ended up changing my mind and went for a 96%(check out my history for pics!) but I'll have to get used to the small 0 key on the numpad, the lack of spacing between the keys and the shortened right shift.

From what I heard keychron keyboards are very good. As long as you selected the hot-swappable version you'll have a great base to build up on. You can get a new set of keycaps to quickly customize the looks without spending more than 20 mins. If you wanna go a little further I suggest trying the tape mod and foam mod, it's very easy to perform, costs less than 10 bucks but you'll need to dissassemble the board. This will give you a small insight on what keyboard building is like and you'll most likely love the new sound of your board.

Thanks for chipping in and I hope you like your new board! :)

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HadouKang t1_j9cdo4z wrote

Reply to comment by TrashWangOakland in This time, it's different by djaiss

Pretty much any keyboard that's compatible with the nice!nano microcontroller (most boards with a pro micro/elite C footprint). Unfortunately, not sure of many conventional premium boards that let you just socket in your own microcontroller, but there's a ton in the ergo space.

Integrating the battery is easy since you just get taller standoffs for the nice!nano and place the battery underneath. Then, there's the nice!view which is an e-ink screen (great for showing battery level).

As for firmware, ZMK is built with wireless first in mind. It plays very nicely with the nice!nano. Here's a list of supported hardware: https://zmk.dev/docs/hardware#pro_micro.

Here's a low profile Corne that I built recently: https://i.imgur.com/euoETk7.jpg. It's fully wireless with both halves even communicating over BLE!

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freewilly666 t1_j9c75rv wrote

Reply to comment by Deductivemonkee in OG60 WKL by Deductivemonkee

Just built my og60 up. Do you feel like the sound of yours on key press is a little metallic? I noticed they keys by the edge of the case, like tab, backspace etc sound a little more metallic when typing.

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