How wouldyou rate the trackpad? Have you used other trackpads or trackballs in the past?

This is beautiful nice work

Specs? Would love to see a closeup of those panels too. Is that wrist rest some sort of trackpad?

Why does this look like a knobless zoom65, down to the weight design on the bottom. Not that that’s a bad thing.

Very nice and well done on the engraving

As a left-handed graphic designer and gamer, any keyboard without a numpad is literally useless to me.

I do too much number entry at work.
Trying to enter all those numbers on the number row is a literal waste of time, and would make me want to smash the keyboard.
At home, I hold the mouse in my left hand while gaming, so the numpad/arrow/nav cluster are where I do button entry.

From an aesthetic standpoint, I really love my Wind X.
I was equally fond of the HHKB-style 60% I had, coupled with a hand-built macropad that mimics the right side of a traditional 100% board.

Those two boards, viewed together, made up an F-keyless 100%, which worked beautifully for me, until my brain decided it could do even better.
That was the spark that resulted in my current work board.

Unfortunately for me, after using my current work board, even the Wind X annoys me now, if I try to use it for graphics.
I tried to do some work in Illustrator over the weekend, to design a replacement for it, and it frustrated me to the point I didn't make any headway at all, on that project.

How's that for a chicken vs. egg dilemma?

I'll take a guess. He's been the voice of reason in here and this doesn't sit very well with some people.

Tomo and Sonnet are great. I know Magnus175 is also in the works, you should check it out.

It's def reverse. I love this hobby but I'm a dumbo for lol sounds that are made up

What is that deskmat? Looks sick

can i borrow that pls?

Wearing socks on carpet is usually what builds up the biggest charge for me, but you can get static electricity build up from pretty much every daily activity. Then it's just touching something or arcing with something that is conductive.

Your vid popped up in my feed and I had to watch it. Beautiful work!

After reading some comments and your replies my thoughts are:

• 75% does have nearly the same functionality as a TKL, but aesthetically I think the TKL format is more balanced and visually appealing. 75s do offer that functionality in the size of about a 65.
• For the majority of people, for everyday workloads, I think F keys are largely vestigial. For the oft chance you need it a Fn+number is easy enough.
• I feel like there has been a lot of 75s coming out lately. About a year and a half ago 75s were the hot shiz, 65s made their comeback, and now we're back on the 75s.

I had an ID80 and gave it to a friend. My current keyboard rotation is a Mode65 and a StackedTKL. I have a Brutal60 but I stopped using it. People always talk about the arrow keys with 65%+ but for me I miss having a couple nav keys the most. The arrows are nice too.

I think my ideal layout is a F-rowless TKL. But those made are usually relatively expensive and limited :(

That's my point. You either need layers.... or lose the number row. I use the F row a lot, which is why I like 75s. I also just like them aesthetically, particularly exploded 75s.

I'd rather have a 75 and a separate numpad for the rare occasions I would use it. I have a wireless one that sits in a drawer until its services are called upon.

How I didn’t know 60s were the most popular glad I’m starting off making those! Ima keep venturing up in size tho forsure with my wooden boards

2013 here, still going strong

Hell, even $100

The only parts of my keyboard that require layers are the numpad and F-keys.
I could eliminate the layers on the F-keys, by converting the number row to dedicated F-keys, but I don't use them frequently enough to warrant that.

All my layout requires, to activate the numpad, is either bumping the center Fn key with my right thumb, to lock in the numpad completely, or pressing down with my left thumb, where it sits, to activate the numpad momentarily.
Both of those actions are considerably more efficient than moving your hand to a dedicated numpad, or trying to enter the numbers with the number row.

By contrast, a standard 75% has no proper numpad, whether layered or not.
The only way to fix that is to do a full rework, like I've done with my 60%.
Applying that same type of layout to a 75% would result in nothing but a bunch of wasted real estate though.

I guess we'll see when you post something explaining all this.

It’s a little wood macropad I designed and made a wood case as well as a custom hand engraved encoder knob for!

Based on the Rotr macropad by polarity works out of some walnut wood

The travel from top to bottom of the switch is <0.5mm and because of the design it will end up ~0.3mm for a key press. The prototype will be a sandwich with handwiring but I hope to make a working PCB afterwards once I dial down my design. Since this switch does not mount like any mechanical keyboard switch, I'll be going with a two part plate design to hold them down which can be replaced by a PCB eventually even if socket mounted.

edit : and thanks I appreciate it. I understand that the community is quite unsure and skeptical about this, but trust me, I really think it's going to bring something new to keebs.

Also true haha

I could incorporate easily a cherry stem fortunately.

I hope to have time to design and render a prototype this weekend to show you guys, since I don't have a solidworks license anymore I'm converting my skills to Fusion360, so far so good, mostly a matter of finding where things are.

I honestly think it belongs here as it fits the bill of a mechanical keyboard as much as any diy kit except keycaps. I think there would be appeal to users who want to reduce movement because of possible carpal tunnel or injuries or even just want to prevent anything. With the amount of travel, I think it would also appeal to gamers wanted the fastest possible reaction time with their keyboard hand.

It's vastly different in terms in construction, but at it's core it's the same. I'm focusing on first and foremost having the "as basic as possible" model prototyped first, then aiming for improvements through revisions.

I really really think this will bring something new to the keeb realm. You'll just have to wait and see for the first render.

I am curious about what implementation you'll come up with for keycapless design, but from my end it sounds like you're using terms interchangeably without understanding them. AFAIK, travel is related to switches but you're talking about it in the same breath as case design, so the overall idea comes across as somewhat confusing.

Good luck with the project though!