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Redmaus wrote: Looks sick. Haven't ever tried gateron blacks before. A little too small for me though

Almost every staggered 40% layout removes a key from the home row, leaving anyone who wants to use Dvorak or Colemak in a bit of a pickle. Too small for me too

From what I have seen in pictures it looks to be plate mounted, but I don't know anything else about the keyboard. You should most certainly be able to mod it though, as long as you are up for a little soldering and disassembly. I'm curious as to why you want light switches on the alphas and heavy ...

It's been a factory default for a long time on the Mac, and for external keyboards in iOS. Can't say I follow Windows. Though I assumed 7 and up should have it.

Of course, swapping system keyboard layouts on machines beyond your own is a daunting task in itself. Last time I used Windows without ...

Yeah, I'd advise against Dvorak. Colemak hit the sweet spot (popular enough to be built in to most OSes these days) and is different in the ways it needs to be, given the hardware and uses we have today.

But QWERTY has stuck about in ubiquity for long enough that I fear it'll last for as long as ...

I use Dvorak with a standard ANSI keyboard.

If you get a chance, you should see how a matrix keyboard feels. It's not as big a shift as you might expect, and it makes some things much easier. It also gets rid of nearly all space-wasting 2U keys.

I'm willing to bet you have the keyboard centered ...

I use Dvorak with a standard ANSI keyboard. I switched from QWERTY because up until then I was a hunt and peck typer, and I could not break that habbit with QWERTY. I learned to touch type on Dvorak and am much happier now. Seeing as I couldn't touch type on QWERTY prior to the switch, and wanted to ...

You may consider a merged colemak/dvorak kit, as it may be more likely to tip that way as you get dvorak users too. Just a thought.

It seems to be OK. The common way to connect VCC and GND to the schematic, or at least the way I do it is this:

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But it should be OK the way you did it, too.

I suggest that you post the project files again when you have imported the netlist into the PCB and placed the components ...

Muirium wrote: It's hooked up to the Teensy's onboard LED. You can't use it unless you hack that off.

Thanks for the information. Will remember to avoid.

I have started work an a custom keyboard (or rather gamepad, really) for myself. I don't know much about what I'm doing, but hopefully Google, the internet, and my willingness to learn will allow me to end up with a working keyboard some day. I have come here simply because there seem to be lots of ...