Blog op doenietzomoeilijk.nl.
That’s almost correct. They have the Halcyon Kyria coming later this year, which will be preassembled.
Apart from that, I doubt any split KB is going to warrant getting CE certified, as far as I know that’s quite an elaborate and costly procedure.
That’s an interesting approach, this might just make a better fit than what I’ve been doing so far!
I’ve never taken apart a Topre board, but looking at this video video, I’d say it was doable. Fiddly, maybe, but then again, so is opening up every switch on an MX board, too. Take your time, be gentle, pay close attention to what you’re doing… You’re probably going to be fine.
For QMK, my go-to hrm-embetterment came from Achordion. Not sure if that helps OP, but it made hrm amazing for me, and it does the sort of timing tweaks that might help here.
Otherwise, the HOLD_ON_OTHER_KEY_PRESS mode might help.
Before opening up or resoldering any switches, I’d short the two pins with something (tweasers or similar) to confirm or rule out the switch itself as the cause.
That looks great! How do you like the melodics?
Just looking at it makes me wonder why you’d consider the thumb placement that strange (although all hands are different and all that). What was off about it for you?
I’m actually still on my first ergo, a Lily58 (my first mechanical was a “regular” 75%). I was a bit on the fence between this and the Corne, and I think I would’ve been fine going with the Corne; I barely used the numrow and currently it’s not even mapped, and I’m experimenting with putting the things I had left on the outer columns on layers or combos.
But regret… no, of course not. It’s been a great learning experience so far!
I’ll certainly build more boards at some point, at least a Corne because, well, gotta build a Corne, but maybe some other things as well. Maybe a Charybdis or a Cygnus or something like that.
Eh, the split part is easy, it’s the lack of row stagger that’s going to trip you up for at least a couple of days.
You do get used to it, though, and after that a “normal” keyboard will feel as weird as it actually is, when you think about it.
Cornish Zen, I think.