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by zamalek 710 days ago
I'm currently designing a board from actual traces of my finger movements on paper (I was mildly amused when I found that they are not symmetrical, like all human features) in combination with these: https://fkcaps.com/keycaps/hex. It's also my first attempt at using a MCU directly (kinda, MDB50Q).

Probably not possible to make a product from my anthropometrics, but I could try average out a few hands.

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The human is not perfectly symmetrical by a vertical line - same as our faces!

Do you have the project somewhere online to share - git, blog, reddit, etc.? I would like to have a follow up on your progress!

Thanks for the interest, it's on the back burner at the moment because I'm currently rage-coding a text editor :). Here's the repo regardless https://codeberg.org/jcdickinson/hexkbd
Was wondering what "rage coding" means. After seeing your codeberg profile picture I have an idea now... :D
If you have a large enough touchscreen, I’d also recommend https://pashutk.com/ergopad/

(Note: this breaks down a bit once you move to concave key wells)

This tool is awesome for design! Thanks for sharing it!