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jsallan / trinidox

A dactyl manuform keyboard with integrated trackball.
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Sources for small adjustements? #1

Open udponly opened 1 year ago

udponly commented 1 year ago

first of all, thanks for sharing. really nice keebs! :-)

any chance you could share the source(s) for the models? did you use clojure or plain f360? Would be interesting to know how you added the trackball holder?

thanks a lot in advance!

jsallan commented 1 year ago

Thanks! the source for this one is the python dactyl generator. I made a bunch of mods and it's quite a mess...I'm guessing you'd like to mod it a bit? What aspects would you like changed? I'm asking because I'm close to releasing a flow-choc40 that's based off the Trinidox. So if the Trinidox in interesting to you, this one might be as well, unless you're after some heavy mods.

udponly commented 1 year ago

the thumb keys are too close to the wrist for my hands - I have longer thumbs than most of my friends ;-)

been using a standard dactyl for years, but the thumbs always were very uncomfortable, also three is enough imho.

My DM is really great to use with custom wrist-rests I printed with soft TPU, are you also using wrist rests I assume?

your trinidox has a nice tenting angle that feels comfortable at first try, but not sure how it is without wrist rests?

Planning on "simply" moving the thumb cluster further up and adding a trackball.

did you oil the bearings at all or just print-iterate until they fit well? :-D

thank you again for your work and the time you take to answer :-)

best regards!

jsallan commented 1 year ago

Ah ok, I understand. As you described your hands, I found myself wondering if actually only the trackball would need to be moved up, but this is where only you know best :-)

I don't use wrist tests, I have the arm rests for my chair right up against the desk so my wrists can dangle right to the keyboard.

The bearings in the trackball are just static, meaning they don't actually move. This is how commercial trackballs work as well.

I have a number of things that I'm working on right now, but I'll try to get the repo published... With a caveat: it's quite messy. Also, I had to do some STL slicing in freecad because I just couldn't get the dactyl generator to do it all. There's a an STL that's outputted for the "walls" of the trackball and has some extra bits that need to be trimmer off. This is then combined with the rest of the keyboard case. It's hacky but works, and I had already spent an embarassing amount of time trying to figure it out in the generator, hehe.