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Initial feedback from Eldest on their first #MechanicalKeyboard (my Slump52):

The keys are too hard to press (35g red pros for the letters, and 50g red switches for the rest - just what I had on hand), easily fixed $$$ but for now it almost forces them into one finger typing.

The 5 key jams on the 2 key, more sanding of the keycaps required (had this with the A and F keys too).

And from my point of view, as an #ErgoMechKeyboard, the top pinky/ring keys would take some getting used to!

Photo of my Slump52 keyboard design in white with 'Red' (50g red centre, black base) and 'Red Pro' (35g white centre, red base) linear Kailh choc v1 switches (and no keycaps).

It started out smoothly, then got a bit tricky (can you see the two bodge wires on the back?), but my fourth #MechanicalKeyboard PCB design is assembled and working - suspect eldest will not want to wait till Christmas to try it out - will it pass as an #ErgoMechKeyboard? 🎄⌨️

A shame the Chosfox CFX keycap set didn’t include 1u Escape, shift, backspace, tab, nor anything like a cross or asterisk for the multiplication key on my layout 🤷

Photo of 52-key Slump52 computer keyboard in white (transparent top case showing white PCB and pink Raspberry Pi Pico controller) with black on cream CFX keycaps (top), with mostly empty keycap set tray (bottom) with just 16 unused keys).

Underside of Slump52 keyboard PCB (in white with Nasca Hummingbird line art in black), with all 52 Kailh hotswap sockets soldered on, and the Raspberry Pi Pico controller (in pink), with two short ~6mm bridging wires added to deal with a broken controller connection & and a broken trace from tearing a hotswap socket.

#ErgoMechKeyboard design mistakes this far:

1. Cursors too close to thumb keys (realised with #3DPrinting test plate).

2. Castellation pads are only on the top of the PCB, and I want the #RaspberryPi Pico controller mounted underneath (facing up) for my case design. Looks like surface mounting with pins again 😬

3. USB port too tight (in this resin print at least), cable fits but needs a bit more margin for tolerance.

4. Possibly the key spacing is just a fraction too tight (but could just have been the keycaps - only had to sand U/J)

White #MechanicalKeyboard PCB with pink Raspberry Pi Pico controller laid on top face down, offset to show the cutout allowing it to be surface mounted with the components in the plane of the main PCB. Solder pads are missing (only on the other side - whoops).

Pink Raspberry Pi Pico face down on PCB with cutout, held in place by header pins with yellow in header block below.

My first designed from scratch #MechanicalKeyboard has arrived from JLCPLC - fingers crossed it actually works once soldered up - but they did a good job with #3DPrinting the resin case (just need to sand the bottom a little), and it looks like it will all go together as planned - and in time for Christmas 🎄

Still unsure if it will count as an #ErgoMechKeyboard but that was the idea behind the curve aside the looks 🤞

See https://astrobeano.blogspot.com/2025/12/fourth-keyboard-slump52-with-numpad.html

Photo of a set of bubble wrapped 52-key keyboard PCBs (in white), under the keyboard bottom case in black resin placed at an angle, with the combined switch plate/top case on top in transparent resin. This will expose my Nazca Lines inspired Hummingbird silkscreen line art on the PCB

Success! https://codeberg.org/adamhsparks/keymap/src/branch/main/crkbd/keymaps/adamhsparks

For those that may be curious. Kaihl Sunsets, MBK Legends Glow R2 caps that I had on hand. The Board and case were ordered from AstroErgo, https://astroergo.com/

#ErgoMechKeyboard #MechanicalKeyboard #SplitKeyboard #CRKBD #Corne

An image of a split "ergomech" keyboard. The left and right halves are separated by an Apple Trackpad and joined by a thin black cable with gold fittings on the ends. The keyboards are white with a black layer under white keycaps. The keys are colourfully lit using a Catppuccin palette, https://catppuccin.com/palette/#:~:text=catppuccin/palette.-,Latte,-Color. The keyboard and trackpad sit on a grey wool desk mat.

Finished polishing {read.abares} this AM, now I can play with the keymap for my Corne. #RStats #ErgoMechKeyboard #Corne #CRKBD

https://adamhsparks.github.io/read.abares/index.html

I am inordinately proud of myself – wanted a textured pattern to silkscreen on the top plate of my next keyboard iteration

#mechanicalkeyboard #ergomechkeyboard

a preview of the top switch plate for a non-split ergonomic mechanical keyboard - the layout is 6×3+3 with a half number row - the preview shows a white PCB with a black silkscreen pattern based off the classic Commodore BASIC "maze" one-liner

How deep is this rabbit hole?

Corne v4 with Kailh Choc V1 Sunset Switches, MBK Legend Glow R2 caps.

#ErgoMechKeyboard #ErgoMech #MechanicalKeyboard #Corne #CorneV4

A photo of a split keyboard on a grey desk mat. The keyboard has white keys and there is a white trackpad between the halves.

My second #ErgoMechKeyboard was also featured on this Keyboard news blog https://kbd.news/Gamma-Omega-Hesse-2762.html - as was my first https://kbd.news/Gamma-Omega-TC36k-2690.html and the prior #GraphTheory diode-less #MechanicalKeyboard designs like https://kbd.news/JESK56-2322.html and https://kbd.news/reJESK-2485.html

I am slowly getting better at soldering, 4 out of 7 successful #MechanicalKeyboard PCBs now - all three of my diode-free #GraphTheory wired keyboard PCB designs have worked (eventually) ⌨️🎊

1️⃣ #RaspberryPiPico #RP2040 ‘Gamma Omega TC36K’ (USB only) http://astrobeano.blogspot.com/2025/08/my-first-self-built-computer-keyboard.html

2️⃣ #ProMicro #nRF52840 BLE ‘Gamma Omega Hesse’ https://astrobeano.blogspot.com/2025/10/hesse-diode-free-bluetooth-keyboard.html

3️⃣ #SeeedStudio #Xiao #SplitKeyboard BLE split Forager ‘Acid’ http://astrobeano.blogspot.com/2025/10/partial-heawood-forager-keyboard.html

#ErgoMechKeyboard #ErgonomicKeyboard

Underside of the left hand’s half of the ‘Forager Acid’ split keyboard, with a transparent bottom case letting you see the blue PCB, LiPo battery (bottom middle), hot swap switch sockets, and Seeed Xiao controller (top right).

UWOP, so here it is with default RGB as it arrived after I assembled it, from above along with a daylight photo of the caps and one showing the thickness compared to an Apple Magic Keyboard.

#SplitKeyboard #Sofle #ErgoMech #ErgoMechKeyboard

A photo of a colourfully lit split keyboard with a white computer trackpad between the halves. Yellow key switches are visible at the top of the photo.

A photo of a split keyboard with a white computer trackpad between the halves. Yellow key switches are visible at the top of the photo. The board is on a grey desk mat.

After much flailing and gnashing of teeth, I now almost have my second Sofle 2.0 set up the way I like it. I bought one from Ergomech Store, https://ergomech.store/shop/sofle-hybrid-sandwich-style-423, so I didn't have to carry one to/from work daily. But I (accidentally) selected MX style rather than Choc switch sockets (that I wanted). So, I'm waiting on a Corne to arrive that will use the Choc sunsets and caps that I had for this board.

#splitkeyboard #ErgomechKeyboard #SofleV2 #Sofle #SofleKeyboard

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And then there were two: This post was typed on my phone using my first self built Bluetooth #ErgoMechKeyboard, running on battery power with #ZMK firmware: the Gamma Omega Hesse. Like my other #MechanicalKeyboard designs this has a diode-free PCB using #GraphTheory. https://github.com/unspecworks/gamma-omega/tree/main/hesse

Small 36-key mechanical keyboard in a black resin 3D printed case with Chosfox CFX square keycaps in black (home row and thumb keys), orange (top and bottom on left), and robin blue (top and bottom on right). The middle thumbs have a 1.25u keycap, as do the S&L keys (could do this at D&K instead), which fit because these are slightly smaller than the Kailh Choc keycaps this case was designed for. The index and pinky home keys have a homing bumb.

Two small black keyboards, on the left with a USB cable the wired only Gamma Omega TC36K (with purple MKB keycaps), and on the right showing a reset button and USB port on the top edge, the wireless Gamma Omega Hesse (with blue, black, and orange CFX keycaps).

I have just completed my new #ergomechkeyboard , a Tern-ble. The snap-on case is a little tight, and was bowing the sides upwards, but screwing everything down to a board solved that issue.
Now I get to learn a new layout. I am giving myself the goal of learning the Hands Down vibranium variant.
https://github.com/munkca/zmk-config-HD-Tern_ble
#ZMK #HandsDownVibranium

I've got to say, Boardsource.xyz has done right by me.

I have my beloved lily58 back up and running thanks to a replacement pcb/micro-controller. Many thanks to all who gave me troubleshooting pointers. I think it was a defective micro-controller all along.

My digits are confused but happy to be back to column staggered!

#ErgonomicKeyboards #MechanicalkKeyboard #ergomechkeyboard #mechanical_keyboards #splitkeyboard #lily58

Ergonomic split keyboard with beige, blue and gray keycaps. Model type is called a lily58.

now typing on the most recent iteration of my keyboard, “cinereus mem”

https://codeberg.org/cerement/cinereus-mem

#mechanicalkeyboard #ergomechkeyboard

photo of a barebones monoblock split ergo-mechanical keyboard - currently it is just a single PCB, through-hole diodes, Wuque Arowana switches, Yuzu custom keycaps, and an Elite-C microcontroller

All I have is this tiny bedside table that already has a monitor on it, and mice are hard to use on the bed. Sooo, I switched to a @ploopy@mastodon.social Adept #trackball and a FalbaTech Atreus62 FT (Colemak-DHm layout) keyboard.

#opensource #mechanicalkeyboard #ergomechkeyboard

A tiny bedside table holding a monitor, a colorful 3d printed trackball, and a CNCed bamboo keyboard. It looks like a really tight fit, everything is really crammed on there. A normal mouse or keyboard, let alone both, would clearly not work in this space.

Well, now that my lily58 ergo mech board is down I'm falling back to my spare. It's an Epomaker TH 66 and its fine for a standard board.

I got to say though going from column staggered back to row staggered is not a happy place for me.

#ergomechkeyboards #ergomechkeyboard #mechanicalkeyboard #mechanicalkeyboards

66 key mechanical keyboard in gray case with beige and light gray keys, yellow special keys and a red rotary knob.

I'm crushed. The left half of my lily58 ergo mech keyboard started flaking out yesterday. Once plugged in it types 5tgb and then those keys go dead. I'm thinking a short.

It's a boardsource.xyz buy, not quite a year old. I'm going to reach out but any troubleshooting would be appreciated.

#mechanicalkeyboard #ergomechkeyboards #ergomechkeyboard #SplitMechanicalKeyboard

Two halves of a grey split ergonomic mechanical keyboard. Left half is bare, a naked plate. Right halve has keys in beige, gray and blue.

i'm learning to use qmk home row mods and holy shit it's soooo comfortable. except for the minor issue of locking my PC all the time because apparently i "roll" the A+L combination in words like "actually"

#ergomechkeyboard #ergomechkeyboards

#ErgoMechKeyboard

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