r/ErgoMechKeyboards

3D printed from JLCPCB using SLS Nylon. I've had a chance to daily this set on my cornix for the past month now and It's been a great experience so far.

Hello everyone,

Last week I created a post to ask for some feedback about my first attempt at a coding-focused layout (MacOS, VS Code w/ VIM emulation, Swish for window management w/ CapsLock as my shortcut for triggering motions) for my Lily58. As I mentioned last time, this is my first foray at split-keyboards so this has been quite the journey.

This layout has been working decently well, thanks to all the feedback I received last time. It's wild how much personal preference plays into how people configure their keyboards, so I tried to incorporate ideas bit by bit that resonated with me.

Today, I'm coming back both for knowledge sharing, and to gather additional feedback. In particular, some sore spots I'm still running into are:

- There is some awkwardness when using my arrow keys after typing symbols. The context switch between both layers feels weird, although it has been getting better with time so it may just be a matter of building muscle memory.

- Caps Word for whatever reason feels VERY awkward to use, even though its a simple keypress. Thinking of maybe using Tap Dance to trigger instead?

And again, any feedback in general is very useful.

Reposted cause I'm dumb and don't know how reddit works despite lurking for like nearly 2 decades.

Bought some plum and twist PCBs awhile back with the intention of designing and building a dactyl. Wanted to dust off my already shotty soldering, and found a lumberjack PCB/kit on ebay for a screamin' deal, figured it'd be a cheap/fun way to brush up. We all know how it goes next...

Eventually decided it might be fun to try and see how decent I could get a case/keycaps using an FDM printer and post-processing. That case did come out really nice, shoutout to bondo, but this datamancer clamshell popped up on ebay for cheap, and its too perfect for the lumberjack to not use, so I swapped it out.

FDM printed some KLP Lamé MX keycaps in ABS, and vapor smoothed them down after they finished. They actually are quite pleasant. Switches were some NOS banana splits from LOOBED, also courtesy of ebay.

I think all told my BOM, including the case, switches, filament, pcb, and some poron foam came out to like $80. Which honestly, isn't bad. Keyboard isn't a daily driver, its my home setup's alternate when I'm not playin games.

Already started my next build, need to replace my lily58 at work, which I've bastardized over the years, so building out a sofle. One day I'll take the time to do the dactyl right lmao.

This is my custom build of the Cantor Pro MX keyboard.

The 3D-printed case is designed by me and is available on Printables, along with the bill of materials.

Huge thanks to 42. Keebs for designing the PCB. You can purchase a kit from their store (when in stock), or order the PCB from a manufacturer using the gerber files from their GitHub.

I went the DIY route and sourced everything on my own. The source files for the firmware provided by 42. Keebs seemed to be outdated, so in the meantime I wrote my own version. It can be found on my GitHub.

Using Outemu Yellow Jade silent switches. Impressed with how quiet they are, and still have a tactile feel.