#22

For traveling with my TT, I’ve settled on this little collapsable keyboard that has its own internal battery for operating its backlight (which is amazing to have on a dark plane flight):

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Not the cheapest thing in the world (approx. $43) - but way smaller than any other portables I could find and has a pretty good key feel for its size.

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#23

persevered with keyboardio & back to emacs coding using the unfamiliar layout. This thing has been really very well designed & thought through.

It fits my hand incredibly well & seemingly allows every conceivable pressing/chording hack without noticeable hand strain e.g:

  • ‘double-thumbing’ adjacent thumb keys
  • shifting the whole hand down to chord thumb keys with fingers.
  • excellent use of 'outer-palming-technique in place of pinky-hyper-extension

Firmware updating was a breeze & the code seems pretty clean (at top level anyway!).

The stock bindings were somewhat terrible for my emacs use - ended up spending basically a whole day figuring out a workable layout but with that out of the way I can code again at probably half my previous speed. Switching to & fro a laptop chiclet it’s really noticeable how little this thing strains the hands & the tented/angled layout still feels like it will fix 90% of my bad posture.

So teething problems aside, I’m calling this is the holy grail of ergonomic keyboards! Well worth a shot if you spend one half of your life contorting your hands at a computer & the other half contorting them round a guitar…

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#24

Had an evening of keyboard building. Built a Lets Split with Matias Quiet Clicks, my fav switches. Up next a white Nyquist.

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#25

I’m on ergodox currently, but with my custom mappings and the way I use thumb keys, I could get rid of about 20 keys :slight_smile: I’m thinking of designing my own small split layout and 3d-printing at some point.

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#26

I’d love to see something in between a Lets Split and Ergodox. The bottom row of the LS is a bit hard to reach with thumbs when doing combos, so I’d love to see the thumbkeys of the ergo dox on a 30/40% ortholinear split keyboard.

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#27

This one is small, minimal, mechanical, non-backlit and under $40 USD…I wonder if the wireless will work with Teletype?

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#28

i got this and i love it. it perfectly matches the 128’s led’s, also.

also i successfully used this logitech bluetooth keyboard. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014EUQOGK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_mShUAbHZA2GVC)

it just isn’t anywhere as cool as the first one☝🏼.

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#30

@jonsimon Thank you for sharing. I’m considering this Royal Kludge keyboard, because of the multi-device stuff. Specifically, I would love to be able to use just 1 keyboard and switch back and forth between my Mac (bluetooth) and the Teletype. Have you happened to try this feature of the keyboard out?

Also–I feel like I’ve fallen down a mechanical keyboard rabbit hole. The amount of variation between keyboards (layout/switch type/wire(less) features/led/etc.), combined with the fact that there really isn’t a way to find exactly what you want (without going into the pretty expensive custom/boutique stuff) has caused me to sink a lot of time into this, hah

#31

Did you try it?
Or did anyone?

#32

I can no longer find the 61 key velocifire one I had posted about (the link seems to have been replaced with a kinda clunky looking full-size layout one). I never ended up grabbing that one.

#33

I went for a cheap USB switch so I can use my favored mechanical keyboard, but I like the idea of a multi-device Bluetooth keyboard. I’ll have to think about that. It might switch a little more smoothly, and having the control right there on the keyboard instead of a separate box would be a plus.

#34

Just wondered if anyone tried mac keyboard on TT, either connected by bluetooth or USB directly? Interested to test but I have no mac keyboard on hand…

By the way I discovered another good one on indiegogo tho, looks so decent!

#35

It’s going to take a little getting used to the feel of this one after mechanical keyboards. But I have successfully paired mine with two Unifying receivers, one for my PC and one for the Teletype, and also my phone just because I can. For some reason the options software claims all three are “Windows”, but whatever :slight_smile: I can now switch quickly and smoothly and all is well.

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