keyboard
This note is part of my Zettelkasten.
I like mechanical keyboards. I’m thinking of getting a new one
- currently: Ducky One, standard German layout, Cherry MX Brown
- currently: ZSA
Moonlander
- very flexible
- comes with carrying case
- very customizable
- heard a lot of good things
- tried the one from a friend, seemed good
- if I’d want to buy new, I’d have to import it from the US
- looking for a used one instead
- or self-assemble one, e.g. based on an Ergodox variant
- FalbaTech have nice wooden cases
- ships from EU (Poland)
- https://splitkb.com (ships from Netherlands)
- might be a fun project
- but do I want more projects?
- less flexible than the Moonlander
Keycaps
Amount and Profile
- original: OEM profile
- all row 3 for printed caps
- row 0-4 for blank caps
- note that the direction the rows are counted from differs between profiles (because of course)
- I use the OEM profile count: R4 on top, R1 on bottom
- main keyboard has
6454 keys (10 keys are unused and capped off)- 14 * row 4 (function / number keys)
- 14 * row 3 (top letter row)
- 14 * row 2 (home row)
- 12 * row 1 (bottom letter row)
100 * row 0 (also row 1 on most profiles)
- with an ANSI
alpha set, we still miss: 2*R1, 3*R2, 2*R3, 2*R4
- an additional mod + numpad set (only if no homing bump on the numpad) or a normal full ANSI set will cover those except for the R0 keys
- if R0 = R1, then all R1 might be covered depending on the set, but there might still be a few missing
- 8 special keys
- 6 vertical 1.5u keys (horizontal should work too)
- 2 red wedge-shaped keys (2u keys should work too)
- maybe some fancy artisan keycaps for those