Let's talk about keyboards…
- smokku
Once the DEV-boards are in production, I need to start thinking about moving
to the next milestone of designing and building the full computer.
First item on the TODO-list is the keyboard.
For a long time, I’ve been looking for a pre-made oridinary keyboard with the layout
I wanted, to keep the cost of the machine down.
I even found out a workable one, but in pretty low quality and not available in bulk.
After some research on building custom keyboard, I’ve decided it is not that hard
and I should just build my own design. What could go wrong…
This is the X65 keyboard layout I’ve envisioned:
I’m sure you can see the inspiration and the look and form factor I am going for.
Top two rows are packed and ortholinear, specifically so you could rearrange keys
to one of these wild layouts envisioned by Android Arts:
I am also exploring options for customizing layout of ISO/ANSI Enter key:
and for additional keys instead LEDs, if someone wishes to…
