Keyboards

• Concepts:

  • Split halves: on keyboars your wrist have to bend in order for the keys to be in position, splitting the keyboard will allow you to have a more natural posture

  • Thumb cluster: your thumbs only press a key, the space bar, which is a waste, better have a other keys like enter, tab, example

  • row stagger: normal keyboards are row staggered, meaning each row is moved a little bit to the right, this comes from old typewriters, that need an arrangement to prevent the percussors to get stuck → Not ergonomic

  • columnar stagger: the same idea, move the columns a little up and down, depending on the finger length, (so the center columns will be higher up)

  • Keyboard firmwares

    • QMK → Open Source community center
    • ZMK → Open source - have bluetooth

  • Layers: change keys meanings depending if a layer modifier is pressed (this key activates a the layer)

  • Layer tap: if quick press the key, the normal key will be output, but if pressed longuer will activate the layer.

  • Hold-Tap: change the meaning of the key depending how much time is hold

  • Mod-Tab: get the home row to do as mod keys (Super / Control / Shift / Alt) and when pressed as a hold they will behave as modifiers

    

  • Combos: press two keys together to output another one, for example Q and W together could output ESC

  • Layouts

    • QWERTY → is old and thought to preventing typing faster
    • DVORAK → thought with a simple idea, most used keys are in the center
    • COLEMAK → same design principle of DVORAK but with more easy to learn
    • Miryoku → layout for minimal keyboards (36 keys) https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku

• my keyboard — corne

  • used the online configuration
  • home rows mode (GACS — Gui Alt Control Shift) id:: 64fe36b0-88c3-4bdb-832e-a2758f2c760c
  • once installed qmk
    • kzk(1).json configuration
    • setup witch keyboard will you use: qmk config user.keyboard=crkbd/rev1
    • create a new keymap qmk new-keymap
    • convert the json into a keymap.c and replace the keymap.c generated qmk json2c x.json > keymap.c
    • compile qmk compile -kb crkbd/rev1 -km kozko2001
    • flash qmk flash -kb crkbd/rev1 -km kozko2001
• All about split keyboards → https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards all models, what type of profiles for keycaps are etc…
• keyboard Dactyl keyboard generator https://ryanis.cool/dactyl/#manuform
• Keycaps keyboard 3dPrint https://github.com/pseudoku/PseudoMakeMeKeyCapProfiles
• keyboard 3dPrint handWired
• Keyboard 3dPrint handWired Cool https://github.com/dschil138/Fulcrum — 20 keys or 40 keys very well explained ![40 key version](https://github.com/dschil138/Fulcrum/raw/main/photos/fulcrum-6x3-walnut-3.w explain how home rows works in great depth
• [Typing Practice](https://www.keybr.cod m/) to practice new keyboard layout
• https://keymapdb.com/ to search different keymaps for keyboards!