Mechanical Keyboards

*(Image description: A split keyboard with weird keycaps. Also pictured: big ploopy trackball, pocket knife, he/they and no terfs buttons, crab deskmat) *

Caseless and plateless Kyria with nice!nanos, SA8010 keycaps, and a choc thumb cluster inspired by the Pinky3/Pinky4, tented with splitkb pucks and manfrotto mini tripods.

I find that with the choc thumb cluster, this setup is ergonomically very close to my similar layout keywell board. (TBK Mini)

I painted my Ergodox EZ last weekend to match my lavender Voice Mini.

Build is: Kinetic Labs Salmon tactiles KAM Lil Dragon ergo, novelties, and alphas kits

An older build of mine that doesn't get much use these days.

Epomaker TH80, Akko CS Sakura linear switches (housings and stems lubed with 205g0, springs bag lubed with GPL 105), Everglide Panda V3 stabs (lubed with 205g0), KBDiy GMK 9009 clones from AliExpress. Sounds and feels amazing for what I paid.

Anyone have any thoughts / experience with the Wooting optical switch keyboards? I like the idea of having an optical WASD. When playing games on a keyboard, motion being a binary toggle is more jarring than when using a joystick.

I was worried about compatibility, but it seems like the Wooting can emulate a controller so it just requires the game to support simultaneous keyboard / joystick input.

I built a nullbits nibble and have been using it as my daily driver, but 3 of the keys that should be 1.5U cps I've had to fill out with 1.25U making it a bit gappy. Anyone got a good way of getting hold of 1.5U keycaps. Preferably XDA profile.

I designed this split bluetooth keyboard using Ergogen to perfectly fit my finger size. It has a minor splay of the fingers for comfort, and just uses an FR4 top plate as a case. To keep it as minimal as possible, I soldered the switches directly to the PCB. I've built 2 of them and have used them exclusively for 9 months now. Next time I might design one with a Nice!View display. 😄

Crkbd with akko lavendars and fake gmk dots that have an xda profile. The thing in the middle is a tentaku mechanical calculator

I'm really looking forward to receiving this board! I'm pretty hooked on using trackpoint, and have the earlier Shinobi from TEX, which I really like (with U4Ts and keycaps I carved in to fit around the trackpoint).

The Shura seems like a nice upgrade. I'm really looking forward to the split spacebar! I've started using space as a layer modifier if held, and I really dog using my right thumb for that.

Plus, as an ISO user, I'm glad it supports both ISO and ANSI. Then I can practice ANSI on my daily at some point.

Shura on TEX website

This keyboard is my daily driver. Extremely happy with it. First I had Gateron North Pole switches in it. Now I was able to get the Box Ink V2 Blacks. Didn’t regret it - this is a whole new level.

Bottom: my old Cherry XT Stream, scissor switches Middle: Vortex Pok3r, with Cherry MX blues Top: my current keyboard, Realforce R2 PFU Limited Edition, Topre 45g

I went with the ecoating white and carbon fiber plate.

Gateron Hippos w/ 205g0 | Durock v2 stabs | Drop MT3 Cyber keycaps | Using their bowl mount gaskets | No case foam | No tape mod

Sounds and feels amazing

Hi, I hope it's okay to ask for recommendations on this sub, if not please just delete my post, or lock it down.

So back to the topic, I came here to ask if anyone could recommend me keyboard. I'm a software dev working 100% from home, therefore the keyboard I'm looking for is mainly used for work related stuff. Outside of work I'll also mainly do browsing, some office stuff and a bit of leisure coding. Gaming is (sadly) nothing I'm doing anymore beside maybe the single day once a year were I'm playing a few hours of factorio or something alike.

Currently I'm mainly using a Logitech MX Keys since my girlfriend got stressed by the sound of my beloved Corsair K70 with blue clicky switches. Since she's not working from home anymore I'm able to go back to a mechanical keyboard. I would like to switch to one of those fancy split keyboard things since their ergonomics actually seems to be way better then the one of a classical keyboard. I'd also like it to be wireless since I reorganized my desk and actually managed to get a nice cable free desk. Thing is, when I was looking around I found some wireless ergonomic keyboards but most of them were no real split keyboards and almost all of them had rubber domes and no mechanical switches. The mechanical ones I found were all cabled bound and for some reason also incredibly expansive. E.g. I'd really liked the Moonlander thing but it's already at close to 400 euros, I also liked the ultimate hacking keyboard even more, since one is able to attach a small trackball to it but it's also cable bound and incl. vat and shipping to Germany it's above 600 euros...

So to sum it up, I'd be really thankful if anyone of you has some suggestion for a nice mechanical wireless split keyboard.

Thanks

I hotswap modded the Anne Pro 2 using cheap hollow copper rivets. Excluding time and solder, I spend less than 1 Euro. Good times!

Here are notes, some photos, and a store link to the rivets.

My first post on Lemmy. A sound test of my Think6.5 V2.

Specs:
Think6.5 V2 Valentine 2U
Mauve Linear switches lubed and filmed
Durock V2 stabs, tuned
ePBT Sushi

Specs:

Drop MT3 WOB keycaps

Kailh box crystal navys

Teensy++ 2.0

And custom layout / plate

Also sorry for using imgur, but idk what else to use and you can only post one image here.

There aren't many DIY keyboard parts/shops in my european country (at least I couldn't find one), but I found GMMK keyboard in a local (mostly online tho) shop. Is it a good pick? Will it allow me to freely rebuild it with other parts (even pcb)? How is it with software and features? Does it lack any featuers I may not know I may need (I never have used so small keyboard, my current one is TKL)?