KLOR is 34 keys split columnar staggered keyboard made by GEIST. I built it with Nice!Nano and without an OLED screen. Been regularly taking it with me to the office.

  • Hannah@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I just worked out that a rotary controller can be mapped onto a mouse scroll wheel, which suddenly makes a lot of sense. I’ve been sitting here thinking “why would I want a volume knob? Why would I want two?” Is there anything else I am missing about rotary controllers?

    • forrcaho@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      My mapping is encoder: scroll wheel ctrl+encoder: horizontal scroll layer shift+encoder: switch desktops

    • Bubbleology@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Hehe, yeah you can map it to different things. I like to use it for ctrl+left and ctrl+right to quickly jump back and forth between words and also ctrl+pg up and ctrl+pg dn to quickly navigate between browser tabs.

    • Bubbleology@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Yep, that’s correct! That’s just one half of it so it’s indeed a 36 key keyboard - sorry for any confusions :)

  • donnachaidh@lemmy.dcmrobertson.com
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    1 year ago

    I have two questions:

    1. How useful do you find the encoder? All the other keyboards I’ve seen with encoders seem badly placed, but is yours close enough to the resting thumb position that you can use it without moving from the home row?
    2. Where did you get the carrying case? I’ve got a corne, but really just leave it at home and use the laptop keyboard when I’m elsewhere because I don’t like just leaving it loose in my bag.
    • Bubbleology@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for your questions:

      1. The encoder is indeed placed in a way that allows my finger to not move away from the home row and use my thumbs to navigate the knob.
      2. I got the custom carrying sleeve from Mechfashion from a small private group buy we did. But not sure if the owner still offers customized keyboard sleeves. The domain and business was moved to deskpads. The sleeve provides enough cushion and protection to give me some peace of mind when throwing it in my bag.
  • Gutless2615@ttrpg.network
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    1 year ago

    Is this… half of the keyboard? Or do you have a mode switch or something so you type the mirrored key? What kind of WPM can you get? It’s super cool, it hasn’t occurred to me that you could have a one handed keyboard