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tompi / cheapino

An affordable split 36 keys keyboard
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ability to use 1.5 u keycaps on thumb cluster for all keys #20

Closed lardofpatato closed 2 months ago

lardofpatato commented 5 months ago

Increasing spacing on the thumb cluster downwards by about 3 to 4 mm to allow 1.5u keys will significantly enhance the reachability and comfort of keyboards for medium and smaller hands. The closest key to the main keyboard is too close to put a 1.5u key on the board, lowering the stretching needed to reach the keys. Also, using DSA keycaps or other sculpted keycaps makes it less likely for the thumb to sit on the rim and dig in over log typing sections.

I need to curl my hand 70-ish degrees to reach all the essential centres, or my thumbs barely reach the edge of 1u keys on the thumb cluster. It makes my wrist hurt after a medium to long tying session due to stretching.

tompi commented 5 months ago

Hi! So you mean "lowering" the entire thumb cluster, right?

Im not 100% sure I know what you mean when you say you need to curl 70ish degrees, could you post a picture?

tompi commented 2 months ago

Closing because of no activity.