Le #CapitoleDuLibre arrive le weekend qui vient à #Toulouse, et on y sera avec @NuclearSquid et d’autres #Ergonautes autour de deux stands pour parler ergonomie clavier :
– un stand consacré à #Ergol (et #Bepolar, #QwertyLafayette…)
– un stand consacré aux claviers ergonomiques comme le #Model01, l’#Atreus, le #Ferris, le #Keymini… et bien sûr le #Quacken, sur lequel on travaille depuis quelques mois !
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(More or less) final version of my #shellac #DIY mod of the Keyboard.io Model 01 #keyboard.
I’m very pleased how it turned out especially with the Linear A keycaps :blobaww:
It’s shellac so I’ll likely further improve it as time passes, but this is a very good start :blobBongo:
After dozens of brushed on layers of #shellac and a bit of rubbing it in (yes, that is a thing you do with shellac), my #KeyboardIO #Model01 encasing is almost done.
Step 2 of my modification of my Keyboard.io Model 01 #keyboard:
Brushing on several layers of very thinned out #shellac.
At this stage (and after cca. a dozen layers) it is far from the finished colour and shine, but the colour change is already clearly hinted at.
In the picture you can see parts of the main project of the week(s), the keyboard is a side-project, since shellac was already mixed up and it takes 24h to mix.
I'm SURE I could come up with some use for the the little-used keys on my Keyboardio #Model01 keyboard: prog, LED, Any, and butterfly.
Yes, it has a key marked "Any".
This needs some thought and inspiration.
Finally made a family photo.
In order of purchase:
@TrulyErgonomic@twitter.com 207
@drop@twitter.com #ergodox
@keyboardio@twitter.com #model01
@hsgw@twitter.com #Plaid
@fireglow It's the #Keyboardio #Model01: https://shop.keyboard.io/
Though, currently the quiet click model is out of stock, and loud click doesn't have much stock left either. Due to a long list of reasons, no more will be made, and a new variant - the Model 100 - will replace it in the hopefully not too distant future.
It's the best keyboard I ever owned, by the way.
@zhenech Oooh, this looks awesome. Something between that and the Ultimate Writer[1], with a keyboard that's like the Keyboardio #Model01, but with key wells, and you have me sold.
[1]: https://alternativebit.fr/posts/ultimate-writer/
That, or the Atreus cyberdeck: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/8v5sqd/atreus_deck_prototype/
Or perhaps all of them, each for a different purpose.
I can confirm, that the #Keyboardio #Model01 works with #TheC64. At least the keyboard parts. I have not toyed with Joystick or Gamepad stuff yet, but I suppose that's something I should be doing soonish.
Imagine this: #TheC64, with an #Azeron keypad running #Kaleidoscope.
Mmm. Yummy.
Every morning I start a new journal entry on my laptop. If it takes me more than two tries to get the date written correctly, I didn't get enough sleep.
Today is "Funfsy". When I was writing that, I had a creepy feeling that something was fundamentally wrong in the world. It was because my fingers weren't registering the bumps on f, a, and backspace keys on my #Keyboardio #Model01 keyboard in the default resting position of my hand on the keyboard.
I might not need two pots of tea today.
No pictures yet, but I'm typing this on the #Raise, and I like this board. It's not going to replace my #Model01, of course, but for certain tasks - like gaming - it is a better fit.
I like the feel of the keycaps (my board came with PBT ones), the Kailh Speed Coppers feel ok. They do make a loud "thud" noise when I bottom out - I always do -, but thankfully, I have my own room nowadays, so the extra noise is ok.
The most striking thing are the LEDs. They're gorgeous.
Blog post coming soon.
For the record, what I need is interactive SVGs, because I'm not going to build the #Model01 layout from native widgets or the like. Both GTK and QT support interactive SVGs - in a webview, embedding webkit. That defeats the purpose of using native toolkits, if the core of the application will be in a webview anyway.
After a couple of days of practising with the #Model01 keyboard: I like it, but the thumb keys (incl. shift and space) and the palm keys are a little awkward. I keep pressing the palm keys by accident.
Maybe I need to try another position for my hands?
Oh dear $deity, it feels good to type on my #Model01 again.
With the LED Stalker plugin on my #Model01, I can pretend I'm a #Firestarter for a day.
Daughter just found the packaged unlabeled black #Keyboardio #Model01 keycaps under my desk. She's been "pressing" buttons for the past 20 minutes, with no intention of stopping.
Custom sculpted keycaps are the best.
I made a small tool that plots the load average onto the top row of the #Model01's left half, to show how to use the chrysalis libraries for small things, outside of the big ball of mud that is #Chrysalis itself.
Sources at https://github.com/keyboardio/chrysalis-api/tree/master/examples/model01-load
OMG. The unpainted keycaps for the #Keyboardio #Model01 are amazing. I had unpainted caps before, on the prototype, but these... these are a whole new level of awesomeness.
They even *feel* better!
