Got RSI from coding at job circa 2016 and bought this baby for $350. I’m using it as long as possible, but I would love a metal splittyboi

Thumb clusters are life!

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    1 year ago

    there were a couple projects at one point that did flexible replacement PCBs for the Advantage2 that would upgrade the board to QMK (Stapelberg?) – could use it as an excuse to update switches and keycaps?

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      1 year ago

      These are separate things. You can easily replace the SmartSet controller in the KA2 with a KinT controller with QMK. The key wells and thumb clusters are connected to the controller with removable ribbon cables. The swap-out takes maybe 5 minutes.

      Kinesis offered replacement flex PCB and key wells in the past, so that you could replace your switches. They don’t sell them anymore and instead you have to go through an expensive UpgradeKeyboards.com build.

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        1 year ago

        don’t remember anything recently (was under the impression BastardKB had something but I can’t find anything on the website) – and it seems most people working on Dactyl variants usually end up just using the Amoeba PCBs because they’re easier to source …

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        1 year ago

        I’m in the works on a solution with hotswap but I’m not there just yet.

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    1 year ago

    Last year I made the switch from the KA2 to a custom built keyboard (Scylla kit from BastardKB) and I have been really happy with it. Keeps the curve of the hand, has better thumb clusters (IMO), is split, and has full customization through QMK. Plus it was fun to try building my own!

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      1 year ago

      It’s pretty easy to replace the controller in the Advantage2 with a KinT and then you have QMK as well. My three Advantages all have QMK.