I just finished this fun little keeb which I based off the Hummingbird, but I made it hot swappable, dropped the pinkies down more, made the thumbs more reachy, and spaced it for Chosfox CFX keycaps (tighter than standard Choc spacing).

It has a top plate and sound-dampening silicone gasket, as well as foam on the backside of the PCB.

Everything is open sourced on my github

tern top

tern quarter view

tern bottom

  • Hazel@keeb.lolM
    4·
    1 year ago

    Super clean! I’ve had Egret bookmarked for a bit as inspiration, and tern is now being bookmarked as well. Keep up the great work!

    • crankin@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thanks Hazel! The feeling is mutual, I’ve had your badwings boards bookmarked myself for a while now.

  • ryncewynd@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I guess this relies heavily on home row mods?

    So far I’ve never had a clean typing experience with home row mods 😢

    I love them, I just keep getting accidental triggers no matter what configuration I use. And eventually I have to disable them.

    Would love to have them work perfectly but maybe that’s just not possible due to just… That’s how it is

    • jhelvy@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve had similar experiences and have had much more luck with combo mods. This article describes the idea and it works well. I use a slight variation in that all of my combos are one shot so you’re not having to make weird finger contortions to reach things, just hit the combo and then the letter. https://jasoncarloscox.com/blog/combo-mods/

  • jhelvy@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is beautiful. Exactly the layout that I’ve been wanting too - 23332 for the fingers and 2 thumbs. I think this is the ideal balance between too few and too many keys while remaining super comfy.

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    Looks great! Is there a builder YouTube channel that shows the design / execution of something like this? If no, maybe you’ve got an opportunity knocking!