I have made myself a wireless, 30-key keyboard, and have decided to make things more complicated by learning a new layout as well. This was my first time ordering PCBs and sourcing components locally, so am feeling a bit chuffed. I had to bolt everything down to a board, as the case snaps around the PCB, and was tight enough to start bowing the sides up, but this fix works and I’m happy with the aesthetic.
Check out my modified Hands Down Vibranium-f layout.
This looks incredibly comfortable! I always hate how far away the inner upper and lower keys are, even with a 36-key board, and the pinky finger does not feel like it is made to operate 3 keys.
I am still on qwerty on my 42 key board where I’m trying to move to having only 35 (3 left, 2 right thumbs and 5x3), with the intent of getting a Bastardkb Charybdis Nano or Dilemma at some point, to remove the need to move my hand to a mouse.
But this looks very interesting, especially to my index finger! I’ll definitely consider a smaller board before deciding which weird layout I’ll move to after qwerty.