#mykeebs

Rehoused my 34 key katana split board. 3d printed case that I didn't sand or nothin so it looks like shit but it works. Got the serial cable set up proper this time and I'm running it on 2 RP2040 zeroes which so far have been more trustworthy than the knockoff pro micros in the last build.

I also have a couple extra parameters to work around:

X C V need to be on the left hand. I do a lot of mousing at my job and I need one hand access to cut copy paste.

I have some viking hand-like symptoms on my left hand - left ring and pinky don't extend all the way, so the top row on those keys are really hard to reach. I'm considering those the lowest priority locations on the board.

I ranked each position on a scale of 1-4, same as Bucao did in the original write-up for workman. my ranks ended up a little different though (very interesting to me that Bucao ranked the index finger top row at 3 (even on a normal keyboard I feel like it's about the same as the bottom row position for me) but I guess everyone has different hands) because of my reach issue, and because I type on katana stagger. this makes the center column top row really fucking bad to get to, and I'm too stubborn to type on a different stagger. everything else just works too good.

I also tend to favor the top row over the bottom due to typing on what is genuinely a stupid as fuck keyboard.

so this is what I came up with:

right hand is almost unchanged from colemak. I took M out of the center column since H has moved (all my homies hate the center column). W and Z in the standard punctuation places because punctuation doesn't deserve base layer keys.

left hand has seen the most work. I stuck with the workman home row, pushed D off the ring finger, took G out of the center column (all my homies hate the center column).

I'm nervous about W-E and W-U bigrams. the latter are pretty rare but the former are pretty common. it's the strongest finger on my dominant hand though so I'm not too worried about it yet. I previously had K in that position and K-E didn't bother me much.

C-K are also not ideal. I can move my middle finger to C and use my index for K when needed - I won't sacrifice speed but it's textbook bad ergonomics. I may adjust this down the line, I already have a couple ideas of how it could work.

haven't decided what to call this one yet.

WS silent linear switches

caps harvested from an epomaker board that I bought for my wife.

this would absolutely be my favorite board if I didn't fuck it up so bad at every step of the build process. wiring and coding this was such a drag and at the end of the day it was just a hardware incompatibility issue I was so pissed. but it works now. I ended up having to hard wire the serial cable between the two halves which I don't love. but I learned a lot and next time I build a split board I'll be able to get it right

absolutely love the form factor on this I think I knocked it out of the park. inspired by the Fourier board by keebio.

WS silent linear have the same silencing mechanism as haimu heartbeats, and a lighter spring, but for some reason even though these are manufactured in the same factory they're way scratchier. probably a material issue.