Raffowo

Raffowo, 10 months ago

Just to give some extra inspiration,

The multitouch gestire would be kinda unusable, but for scrolling I suggest to steal the same gestire from the japanese Toshiba laptops. They have a circular trackpad and for scrolling use the Edge of the trackpad with clockwise and counter-clockwise movement.

I know that I made It sound confusing, but if you see a video of that in action Will be Easy af to understand!

Raffowo, 11 months ago

Thank you so much!

I think that atm Is in a good shape but There Is a lot more that can be done!

Raffowo, 11 months ago

Thank you for the feedback!

Tbh, I saw ben vallack’s videos that used ergogen to build some keyboard - but I didn’t put that much effort trying to learn kicad; this Will be my excuse to try that out! At the same time, Joe scotto tempted with his guide to handwiring and it felt like a breeze, but It Is a time consuming process that can lead to a lot of problems if It isn’t used a good soldering iron.

Still thank you for the tip on the grid size and angles! Surely Will Speed up the process

Raffowo, 11 months ago

That can be a bit confusing, as “a” I’m using the “Alt” on the left side (the One rotated by 90°)

On the github Page you can see the layout on the image where I mention the 40 Key layout

Raffowo, 11 months ago

They are all accessibile holding the thumb buttons, they are disposed on Two separate layers.

As I mentioned on the other answer, for the full layout you can consult the github Page!

Raffowo, 10 months ago

Thats an alternative😂

Raffowo, 11 months ago

You have mentioned two keyboards that took your attention the Piantor and the Moonlander.

So let’s breakdown them, and let’s see the major benefits:

• If you have to travel a lot and dont want to spend much to try a new cup of tea, you should go for the piantor; it’s cheap, really easy to build (thanks to the diodeless feature), tentable (see on the community for tentable case) and portable!
• Instead if you don’t need to travel and you are sure that you want to switch go for the moonlander; Despite it’s high price it has a really large community and it’s built to make the average user feel at home. With the number row, tentable, full-size mx switches; it’s a really good option if you dont have to travel that much!
• If you want a middleground of those, I can suggest the Sofle, it is a very popular keyboard too and has a number row;

This is the beauty of this community, everyone has it’s preference and we love to build keebs on those!

Let us know what will you take and your feedbacks!

Raffowo, 11 months ago

Thank you for the question, I tried a more circular low angled thumb cluster (you can see it on the top left plate) and it has its pros and cons:

As you stated the pro is the confort because our thumb movement are circular and not linear;

On the other hand the angled linear solution i found gave me the chance to fit a magnetic disc under the thumb cluster and felt more aesthetically pleasing, also because this keyboard is inspired by the little nine-nano by bsag (that has a linear thumbcluster)!

So i found that in good balance between confort, aestethic and functionality!

Raffowo, 11 months ago

Yeah, they look and sound good af; still i want to try the crinnacle zero