Prebuild Ergo Mechanical Keyboards

Ergo keyboards tend to be a nerdy topic, where you quite soon came to a point where you need to do DYI with soldering. Ergonomics in keyboards ia at least the three angles and ends up in highly subject aspects. I want to give an overview of available (prebuilt) models for newbies into the ergo mechanical keyboard scene. I have no experience with most of them, but I hope this represents the market of 2023.

Bag with round corners

Cutting Pattern for bag with round corners Its quite simple to set up an cutting pattern for a bag as a cubus. You just need (2*(width+height)) x length and for the forehead side each width x height plus stitching allowance. Those sharp corners are not aesthetic at all and will be the first part of your bag to break. Therefore I developed a sheet to calculate a bag cutting pattern where you just input your dimensions of the bag and the (optional 2 different) roundings.

My Keyboard Evolution

TL;DR This is my historically ordered journey into ergonomic keyboards. I try to explain the background of each choice, the advantages and limitations. My main work on computers is coding, and I like terminals/consoles and try avoid using the mouse as much as possible. From IBM model M to Dactyl split ortho keyboard for ergonomics and fun. I am still use QWERTY, but try slowly to move to COLMAK DH with the tarmac transition.

Python dataclasses

Background Although I work quite much with python I really hate the aspect of dynamically typing when using classes. In my opinion you should do on object oriented modelling to define attributes instead of adding attributes during runtime. I would like to have something like perls use strict to at least define the attributes, even if the datatype is missing there. Python 3.7, pep 557 introduced dataclasses to the default library, which enables the developer to do an object oriented modelling with python.

Ergo Keyboards

Recently I digged into ergonomical mechanical split keyboards, which become a time consumption hobby due the corona times. I like thinking of and building ergonomic input devices, especially keyboards, unfortunately its not only a hobby I also need it because of some pains due long working at the machine. Links Mechanical Keyboards https://www.keyboard.university/ Ergo Mech Networks https://geekhack.org https://deskthority.net https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards https://www.reddit.com/r/olkb https://kbd.news https://golem.hu DIY pages https://jhelvy.shinyapps.io/splitkbcompare https://yal-tools.

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Some experience and thoughts about Sofle V1

Two months ago I built a Sofle V1(Zealios 67g, DSA caps) that is my daily driver, but I have to admit that I am not as happy as I think I could or should be… The reasons are the following: This is my first column staggered keyboard, I had a few split afore because I am starting to suffer from RSI. When I switched from the Quefrency keyboard to the Sofle keyboard, I got quite a bit of pain extending from my thumb to my neck, which surprised me quite a bit because I thought it would be more ergonomic.

What is Hugo

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