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¹ split meaning a separation of the halves, whether fixed in place or entirely separate, both are fine.
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Custom Dactyl-like keyboard designed in Fusion360 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by i9nachi@lemmy.world to c/ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world

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Recently finally got time to assemble my last project - I call it the Basilisk.

It is the first handwired keyboard I assembled, and also the first one I designed.

I designed it in Fusion 360 myself, I have to reference u/balanstik videos, like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scoX8NZv4MI&t=1s as one of my main resources as well as u/LostPistachio's dactyl generator online: https://ryanis.cool/dactyl

It took me way more time than I've imagined to design it, but thankfully there are no deal-breaking adjustments that I would make to improve it. Although I have some ideas of improvements for rev. 2 if I ever decide to make it. ;)

Also, all this soldering, while not great/pretty seems to be working fine couple of days now, so I'm really happy.

Just wanted to show this to the community, and see what you think. :)

Edit: uploaded the design & stl & firmware files here: https://github.com/radlinskii/basilisk

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why is the keyboard giving me the thumbs down? What did I do? :(

[–] i9nachi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No it's not, you got a wrong idea, it's the beak of a basilisk! 😅 see:

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't want to turn to stone either!

[–] i9nachi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

then don't look straight at its homing keys :D