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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • yay, two pinky gang!

    Personally I prefer still having 3 keys on the inner index column as I find it easier to hit inner column keys if they are part of one of the rows (and I only use the homerow pinky + don’t like chords, so having 3 inner column keys per half is preferable to me).

    Naming wise, you could always go for silly portmanteaus like “scoolp” (scoop + sculpted) or “scoob / scooboard” (scoop + keeb / keyboard) ;)








  • Dipping the fingers in dyed water and laying them on a piece of paper, measuring, printing and checking on the printed sheet.

    It appears to me now that this method does not acknowledge how well your fingers are able to find their home row key while typing, or that the optimal stagger might be different for different tenting angles. Would strongly recommend to 3D print / laser cut the PCB design first and trying it out with actual switches beforehand.

    I will do this for the next iteration before designing the case, and also look at some popular keyboards with a more aggressive stagger for hints. Will definitely reduce the middle finger column stagger as it is way too aggressive right now.

    For some columns I slightly deviated from measurements deliberately, e.g. the inner column should be slightly lower than the index column, but it’s a minor difference.