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BOARDWALK

  • Personal mechanical keyboard journal

Layout

Mechanical Layout

Mitosis

  • columnar stagger (ortholinear)
  • split keyboard layout provides tremendous benefit to typing posture
  • three rows per finger (favorable switch proximity for all fingers)
  • ergonomic thumb cluster (inward reach is easier than outward reach)
Resources

Functional Layout

Qwerty (current layout)

  • Being the de facto functional layout of most operating systems/keyboards makes it hard to move away from

Norman (debating whether to fully pursue)

  • Close similarity to QWERTY layout allows for fast and easy learning
  • Least used letters focused on inner two columns so that index finger is not strained
  • cons: similarity to QWERTY means you lose QWERTY muscle memory

Switches

Capacitive

HappyHackingKeyBoard Pro2 (Topre)

Mechanical

Burnt Orange BOX - purchased April 2018

Zealio v2 67g (assumed R1) - purchased December 2018

  • introduced to zeal switches by friend
  • Nathan Kim (TaehaTypes) review convinced me to try them out
  • current favorite mechanical switch (of the 60+ variants I have tested so far)
  • incredibly tactile, and smooth, has a clean bump in both press and release.
  • a bit loud to type at home at night
  • spring/leaf sound is not the most pleasant to hear

Zealio v2 67g (assumed R2+) - purchased March 2019

  • bought another set from zealpc only to find out the switches are different from my original set (confirmed through email)
  • bump on release is lighter than original Zealio v2 67g (I prefer the original, more prominent bump more)
  • is still incredibly tactile, and is smoother than original v2 set (as a trade off to the lighter release tactility)
  • a bit loud to type at home at night
  • spring/leaf sound has improved vs original v2 (again, as a trade off to the lighter release tactility)

Zilent v2 67g (assumed R2+) - purchased March 2019

  • silent version of Zealio switches
  • purchased for night/home typing purposes
  • impressively similar feeling to Zealio switches

Key Caps

Profile

Anything but DSA

  • I need the profile to create a concave shape since my keyboards are flat

Material

PBT

blank OEM profile keycaps - colors: Black, Dark Grey

ABS

GMK Metropolis

Journey

HHKB Pro2 (topre, 60% layout, little hand movement to reach all keys)

  • great compatibility with Vim binding

Attempt to have identical set up at work and home

  • HHKB-BT vs HHKB Hasu mod research
  • into rabbit hole of mechanical keyboard world

First Mitosis keyboard with BOX Burnt Orange switches

  • very satisfied with mechanical layout
  • QMK firmware is very convenient
  • Wanted hot swappable set up for my Mitosis keyboard

Second Mitosis Keyboard with hot swapability

  • first personal build (still outsourced soldering to Flashquark)
  • used gold holtites for hot swap functionality
  • using holtites is more reliable than Kailh hot swap sockets in my personal experience
  • plate no longer soldered to pcb, which allows for utilizing any plate material

Third Mitosis Keyboard (replica build of second Mitosis)

  • in progress
  • planning on making a detailed build log
  • planning to use metallic plates

Projects

  • Hot Swappable Mitosis
  • Different material plates for Mitosis
  • AES128 for Mitosis wireless communication