Ergonomic, split and other weird keyboards
Posts must be of/about keyboards that have a clear delineation between the left and right halves of the keyboard, column stagger, or both. This includes one-handed (one half doesn't exist, what clearer delineation is that!?)
i.e. no regular non-split¹ row-stagger and no non-split¹ ortholinear²
¹ split meaning a separation of the halves, whether fixed in place or entirely separate, both are fine.
² ortholinear meaning keys layed out in a grid
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Very nice boards. I don't think I will ever go to such a low key count.
My main keeb is a Corne with a couple of keys rarely used. So I'm going to give 38 keys a try with a Totem. I think I can deal with 4 keys less but there is also the increased pinky stagger, splay, smaller Choc footprint, flatter keycap profile. Let's see...
The TOTEM was my first experience with ergomechs and I've been loving it, such a compact little board but doesn't sacrifice too many keys for functionality.
I've also quite liked the increased pinky stagger and splay, but that stuff comes down to personal preference/resting hand shape. The tiny Seeed Xiao controllers are nice too, almost wish I had a spare one to tinker with but I set up my board with a dongle instead of true Bluetooth to save some battery and make it more portable, so the extra microcontroller got put to use. I think I've gotten over 2 months of regular use on a single charge with the dongle setup, so I'd say it was worth it.
Please link the control diagram so I can understand this next level minimalism.
Here's a visual representation :)
Are you a stenographer, perchance?
Not at all, stenography is much more involved. I really only do input by the letter (plus a combo for "sch" which is frequent enough in German that sc being a same-finger bigram in my layout would annoy me.)
A lot of combos, basically.
There is an example of config in the keyboard's repo. https://github.com/kilipan/teenspirit