cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45765963

The design is based on the excellent Dactyl keyboard, generated with https://ryanis.cool/cosmos/ and it runs the excellent qmk firmware. It is handwired:

and I have also made a palm support using inkscape and openscad

All printed on a reprap prusa i3 derivative.

This helps me use my computer with less pain, so I want to call out all the wonderful projects and people who contribute to them which made it possible.

Total cost? $60 aud, amortised filament ~15 bucks worth maybe? and a lot of my time haha.

  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    I also switched to colemakdh with a series of layers and qmk tricks. My typing is quite slow so far, around 30 wpm, I was never an amazing typist but I haven’t noticed difficulty with standard qwerty layouts.

    It’s not like you get confused between a harp and a guitar, or a spoon and a knife.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      for me, switching to dvorak about 10 years ago has made me absolutely useless at typing qwerty… i get used to it after 5min, but much slower than i used to be and wow is it paiiiiiin (both literally in my wrists, and figuratively in that i feel like im fighting the keyboard for every word)

      … or perhaps you mean the differences in physical layout

      • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I haven’t noticed difficulty. Maybe because the layout is so different, maybe I will with time, or maybe I’m just better than you lucky :p