deskthority

Hi guys,

As the founder of the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard, I have a clarification to make: The UHK supports tenting, negative tilting, and positive tilting. Please see https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/blo ... y-complete

Cheers!

I opened a similar thread the other day and folks referenced this one. It's certainly relevant so I hope it's of your interest.

Thanks for the replies, guys!

https://deskthority.net/wiki/Return_key is a great resource which I wasn't aware about, and the other thread phrased the questions that I'm interested in so much better than I did.

Unfortunately, I'm still puzzled about the L-shaped Enter key. It seems to offer no ...

Hi guys,

Do any of you know who designed the ISO keyboard layout, when, what were the design objectives, and such?

I'm pretty interested about the history of the ISO layout but cannot find any information on it.

Thanks in advance!
- Laci

t!ng: Thanks for the nice words!

TuxKey: Sorry about the keycap issue! Unfortunately, even if the UHK was 15U wide (instead of 14.5U) our layout still wouldn't be fully standard because of the split, convex space keys.

Cheers!

Hi guys, and sorry for the late reply!

Apparently, this page has been originally created by Nikolai who helped us in our crowdfunding efforts. He didn't consult with us (Andras or me) before creating this page based on our crowdfunding page. I definitely wouldn't have endorsed this, I'm sorry about ...

Thank you very much for your support, JBert! I have yet to document those repos for others to easily hack on them.

firstly I like how they didn't implement the narrow ISO enter. To call the resulting layout ISO seems strange though. To be fair, they call it half-ISO at times.

Calling it half-ISO would make sense but it might not make sense for most users. After all, the picture shows the layout. Let us think ...

Hi guys,

First up, thanks for starting this thread and sorry for the late reply.

We do listen to community feedback but cannot please everybody.

It was a deliberate decision to make the UHK half unit smaller and put the 6 key on the left half to make it more symmetrical. Sorry that it results in ...

matt3o wrote: we actually already covered the UK, what I would really appreciate is a kicad step by step tutorial

I better do a video tutorial on KiCad eventually

The first part is a typical "dynamic" website architecture. Express.js is used to expose information in a REST api.

Not sure whythis is being used in a keyboard but most likely to expose keyboard configurations as an API. Why it is using web languages to connect with keyboard components is beyond ...

so this is your own personal project? Is the prototype (visually) going to stay the way it is now? It's a very specific design with that middle connector!

I'm the lead developer but I'm not doing this alone. Luckily we have a small team . Yes, the prototype will stay the same visually. If you ...

Nice keyboard layout!
But the Host side is very strange for me. I think I don't want to send all my keystrokes over HTTP to a local daemon which itself communicate with the keyboard itself. This sounds incredible slow. I want my kernel to handle my keystrokes (fast) and my keyboard to handle all ...

Is the software needed for using the keyboard, or just for configuring it? I understoood that it's only configuration software. I think it's nice to use node for that.

Otherwise, sure, why not, let's see what price you can offer this for. Seperated halves is definitely the way to go for an ...

Everything below the "device" line looks sane to me.

I don't understand why (or particularly like that) there must be so much client side state in the form of what is effectively a daemon running in some slow interpreted language. Whatever it offers can likely be handled with software running on ...

Can't say I understand a lick of what the diagram's about. But looks like a 3D printed split ergo with custom PCB and MX switches… and 3D printed caps?

I removed the diagram in the meantime because it's not so important and made people falsely assume things. Yes, it's a 3D printed split ergo ...

Hi guys,

Lately, I've written an article titled From the Ground Up: How I Built the Developer's Dream Keyboard which was featured on the Toptal blog and had a great reception. It's about building the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard step by step, starting with an Arduino. I thought that some of you may ...

My hats off to @Findecanor for the exhaustive explanation and historical tidbits! Given the standard staggered layout from an ergonomical perspective I totally agree with @andrewjoy.

When I designed the layout of the https://UltimateHackingKeyboard.com I didn't think about this issue very deeply to ...

Hi guys,

I've just realized that Americans (and probably most countries) press the "6" key with their right hand, but back in high school in Hungary I was taught to press it with my left hand.

Google image search "touch typing" which yields right-handed images

Google image search "gépírás ...

Down with the epic and self indulgent names! If you want to be honest, you could call it the "Criticized by Deskthority Keyboard", though it's a bit vague because it applies to every keyboard currently produced by any manufacturer worldwide. "Almost There Split Keyboard" or "Nobody's Perfect ...

3 RGB LEDs at the top could be a lot more compact, and look better, while still transferring plenty of info to the user.
But with the display, I dearly hope we'll be seeing actual function in the display, such as a wpm calculator.

This is definitely a possibility that sounds interesting and we ...

For example, Roccat mice let the system know, when you switch profiles or cpi in hardware. A native system notification doesn't interrupt the workflow as much as looking down at the device. Of course, a specific driver is required.

Native system notifications can be fine but they'd drive the user ...

3 RGB LEDs at the top could be a lot more compact, and look better, while still transferring plenty of info to the user.
But with the display, I dearly hope we'll be seeing actual function in the display, such as a wpm calculator.

This is definitely a possibility that sounds interesting and we ...

The display is particularly useful if the user defines multiple application-specific keymaps and Agent automatically sends messages to the keyboard when those applications get switched. It's pretty important to know which is the actual keymap or else it's easy to get confused. This is the main ...

@cookie: I was also considering an RGB LED a long while ago but given our broad feature set it's just not expressive enough, so a more capable display is needed. We could reduce the size of the display in future versions, though.

Many of you expressed your concerns regarding the durability of the ...

@Grond: I think magnets shouldn't be emphasized that much. After all, it's not the main feature.

@DerpyDash_xAD: Neo keyboard sounds a bit vague and overly general to me. I'm also pretty sure that most people associate Neo with the main character of the Matrix movie.

Ndrew has been brainstoring ...

Daniel Beardsmore wrote: Gemini would be my vote, too. "Modulink" ?? lol

Ndrew, my partner in crime has also came up with a slight twist:

Modlink Keyboard

Wondering whether it makes any difference to you.

I've asked the Geekhack folks, too, and they came up with...

[drumroll]...

Modulink Keyboard

How you like it, folks?

Let's call it AssKicker Ultra Pro Mega and call it a day. :)

Jokes aside, we're serious about your input and all things considered we're willing to change the name. Everyone is welcome to come up with new names. We'd like to find a viable alternative that doesn't resemble any other board and sounds ...

I'm honestly getting interested about what's so wrong with the name. Do people think that it's an imitation of HHKB? Is that it? (For your information 7 years ago when I came up with the name I had no idea that HHKB existed.)