tshort
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7 years ago Im interested to hear how it works out.
Closed bruceme closed 7 years ago
tshort
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7 years ago Im interested to hear how it works out.
bruceme
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7 years ago Me too will do
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bruceme
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7 years ago It's done printing and has shipped today. $28 from Treatstock 3D Printing Network. What a deal! I've built an ergodox. I loved the robust the keymapping, but it had too many silly keys and I want my Kinensis curve back. I was very impressed by the Dactyl, but it was complicated to make and still had too many keys. I really love what you've done, it's a big evolution. Nice work!
One more thing I like that you did was the magnet wire and daisy-chaining the diode leads, I had the exact same idea looking at the original Dactyle. I will shamelessly steal that. I buy Pro-Micro's by the 10's and have many handy, so this is a slam dunk project.
Need to make a key mapper generator like Ergodox. I may help if I find the time (I'm overwhelmed with project)
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Me too will do
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bruceme
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7 years ago Just got it. Overall, it looks bit "Maker" but good enough, I'll try acetone softening it. The fit it poor, I will likely have to carve the key holes larger. But hey, it's kewl and I can't wait to get the real browns and get this going.
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Bruce Meacham meabru@gmail.com wrote:
It's done printing and has shipped today. $28 from Treatstock 3D Printing Network. What a deal! I've built an ergodox. I loved the robust the keymapping, but it had too many silly keys and I want my Kinensis curve back. I was very impressed by the Dactyl, but it was complicated to make and still had too many keys. I really love what you've done, it's a big evolution. Nice work!
One more thing I like that you did was the magnet wire and daisy-chaining the diode leads, I had the exact same idea looking at the original Dactyle. I will shamelessly steal that. I buy Pro-Micro's by the 10's and have many handy, so this is a slam dunk project.
Need to make a key mapper generator like Ergodox. I may help if I find the time (I'm overwhelmed with project)
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Bruce Meacham meabru@gmail.com wrote:
Me too will do
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tshort
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7 years ago Too bad on the fit. Of the four halves I've printed, the fit of the keys was quite good. I only had to expand about four key holes. The design by adereth worked great. I used PLA. I assume yours were ABS since you mentioned acetone.
On the wiring, you'll need a hot soldering iron on the magnet wire. On mine I did that way, I don't think my iron was hot enough, so I ended up with several bad connections that I had to reheat. I struggled with the diode legs. It's tough to keep them still. If I try that again, I might try soldering the diodes together first. That way, I could use tape or something to hold them while soldering.
bruceme
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7 years ago I had the same problem with the iron not being hot enough to strip the insulation on a couple wires. No biggy, but yeah.
Ill make pull requests for;
The best news though... I wrote this email on my dactyle manuform and while I'm still stumbling and bumbling on stuff like caps keys and symbols, it's gone well overall.
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Too bad on the fit. Of the four halves I've printed, the fit of the keys was quite good. I only had to expand about four key holes. The design by adereth worked great. I used PLA. I assume yours were ABS since you mentioned acetone.
On the wiring, you'll need a hot soldering iron on the magnet wire. On mine I did that way, I don't think my iron was hot enough, so I ended up with several bad connections that I had to reheat. I struggled with the diode legs. It's tough to keep them still. If I try that again, I might try soldering the diodes together first. That way, I could use tape or something to hold them while soldering.
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bruceme
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7 years ago Also... right hand swaps the column older... ie it's left to right both hands
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Bruce Meacham meabru@gmail.com wrote:
I had the same problem with the iron not being hot enough to strip the insulation on a couple wires. No biggy, but yeah.
Ill make pull requests for;
- wiring diagram, neads something to say how it works, like 4x5 skips the first pin on the rows.
- alternative coder and kenesis friendly keyboard layout
The best news though... I wrote this email on my dactyle manuform and while I'm still stumbling and bumbling on stuff like caps keys and symbols, it's gone well overall.
- Bruce
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Too bad on the fit. Of the four halves I've printed, the fit of the keys was quite good. I only had to expand about four key holes. The design by adereth worked great. I used PLA. I assume yours were ABS since you mentioned acetone.
On the wiring, you'll need a hot soldering iron on the magnet wire. On mine I did that way, I don't think my iron was hot enough, so I ended up with several bad connections that I had to reheat. I struggled with the diode legs. It's tough to keep them still. If I try that again, I might try soldering the diodes together first. That way, I could use tape or something to hold them while soldering.
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bruceme
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7 years ago I'm using this keyboard a lot... I've never adapted to a radical keyboard as fast as this one. It's very solid. I needed to get it a bit closer to a Kinesis for me (it's what I know) but I like how it works in general. really well done
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Bruce Meacham meabru@gmail.com wrote:
Also... right hand swaps the column older... ie it's left to right both hands
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Bruce Meacham meabru@gmail.com wrote:
I had the same problem with the iron not being hot enough to strip the insulation on a couple wires. No biggy, but yeah.
Ill make pull requests for;
- wiring diagram, neads something to say how it works, like 4x5 skips the first pin on the rows.
- alternative coder and kenesis friendly keyboard layout
The best news though... I wrote this email on my dactyle manuform and while I'm still stumbling and bumbling on stuff like caps keys and symbols, it's gone well overall.
- Bruce
On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Tom Short notifications@github.com wrote:
Too bad on the fit. Of the four halves I've printed, the fit of the keys was quite good. I only had to expand about four key holes. The design by adereth worked great. I used PLA. I assume yours were ABS since you mentioned acetone.
On the wiring, you'll need a hot soldering iron on the magnet wire. On mine I did that way, I don't think my iron was hot enough, so I ended up with several bad connections that I had to reheat. I struggled with the diode legs. It's tough to keep them still. If I try that again, I might try soldering the diodes together first. That way, I could use tape or something to hold them while soldering.
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tshort
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7 years ago Thanks for the update, and thanks for the PR's. I'll take a look.
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I'm using this keyboard a lot... I've never adapted to a radical keyboard as fast as this one. It's very solid. I needed to get it a bit closer to a Kinesis for me (it's what I know) but I like how it works in general. really well done
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Bruce Meacham meabru@gmail.com wrote:
Also... right hand swaps the column older... ie it's left to right both hands
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Bruce Meacham meabru@gmail.com wrote:
I had the same problem with the iron not being hot enough to strip the insulation on a couple wires. No biggy, but yeah.
Ill make pull requests for;
- wiring diagram, neads something to say how it works, like 4x5 skips the first pin on the rows.
- alternative coder and kenesis friendly keyboard layout
The best news though... I wrote this email on my dactyle manuform and while I'm still stumbling and bumbling on stuff like caps keys and symbols, it's gone well overall.
- Bruce
On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Tom Short notifications@github.com wrote:
Too bad on the fit. Of the four halves I've printed, the fit of the keys was quite good. I only had to expand about four key holes. The design by adereth worked great. I used PLA. I assume yours were ABS since you mentioned acetone.
On the wiring, you'll need a hot soldering iron on the magnet wire. On mine I did that way, I don't think my iron was hot enough, so I ended up with several bad connections that I had to reheat. I struggled with the diode legs. It's tough to keep them still. If I try that again, I might try soldering the diodes together first. That way, I could use tape or something to hold them while soldering.
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I uploaded your 4x5 STLs to Thingiverse and baught a print. It is open license with the same artwork license you used here. If you want a link to it on your readme, merge this pull request.