Yes! The keyboard itself speaks Dvorak, Colemak, Workman and a variant of Maltron in addition to QWERTY. Were still figuring out what well be able to do for key caps.

Assuming we end up with the layered acrylic construction, youll be able to just pop out our screws and use your own longer screws. That ought to be safer than redrilling and sinking your own screws.

Two PCBs, PCB interconnects, two separate housings, the mechanical design of keeping the two pieces connected when they should be connected...and yeah. At some point, I need to talk to the Workman and Colemak communities about the ideal mappings. For now, I'm running with: https://github.com/obra/KeyboardioFirmware/blob/master/layouts/workman and https://github.com/obra/KeyboardioFirmware/blob/master/layouts/colemak

Heya Ted, (Did you leave me voicemail earlier in the day?) Your project immediately reminded me of Eric Raymonds blog post from June 27, 2013: Keyboards are Not a Detail http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4975??? Looks like youre solving a lot of ESRs complaints except one; it would be nice to use the buckling spring switch. But the patents have expired, so that is an option for the future once sales take off. In fact, for a small fee, Unicomp would be more than willing to manufacture this for you. Unicomp is very reasonable to work with. Talk to Jim. Looks like youve already done the hard parts that would be expensive to have Unicomp do; since those are done, the remaining work would be very cheap since youve done the heavy lifting. Ive actually go a line into Unicomp on a related matter. Ill certainly raise the possibility with them. Well also need to make sure its not..as loud as most Buckling Spring boards ;) Jesse, will your keyboard have N-key rollover? Or, it being USB and all, at least 5-key rollover/chording? Out of the box, itll be 6KRO (6+modifiers), however if you feel like hacking around with the driver, you should be able to make NKRO happen (on ~everything except OS X) Any chance of having a split version, so I can place the two halves on my chair/desk and screw them down to the wood, but then screw it back to the one-piece base for use on the road? I miss my Kinesis; at this point I think your design beats the ErgoMagic by fair, except for lack of a splitting feature. And even the ErgoMagic doesnt have the screw-holes so I can screw it down to my custom wood-work/metal-work. Id like a keyboard that can blend seamlessly with my cyberpunk office furniture. Id really like to, but it probably wont be the first keyboard we make. Too much technical risk means that we might not ship a great keyboard. Care to do a trade? You make me a keyboard, I make you a captains chair with electro-luminescent lighting AKA Tron style? Thanks for the offer - Im not quite in a place where a new chair makes sense, but Ill definitely keep it in mind. Thanks! -Jesse

@Johnwest72 Wed have to be crazy to not be trying to ship it with a proper pointing device. Were working on it, but dont have anything to announce just yet. For now, Im pretty happy with the mouse emulator I hacked up. (The ASDF keys move the cursor. The WER keys are your three mouse buttons)

Pinky typing and middle-row reaching are the bane of my typing. My ideal keyboard would rely on partial chording to drastically reduce the number of keys (something like http://i.imgur.com/fhOHko8.gif). Thats vaguely reminiscent of Engelbarts chrording keyboard from the 1968 demo and the Bat by Infogrip

Interesting story of the shift key. Do you have a reference to it and the touch typing paper? Unfortunately, its buried in a list of 300 papers Ive been working through :/ Pinky typing and middle-row reaching are the bane of my typing. My ideal keyboard would rely on partial chording to drastically reduce the number of keys (something like http://i.imgur.com/fhOHko8.gif).

The return-space-escape-backspace configuration is very elegant. Generally the whole layout looks quite natural. Thanks! A ton of comments I could make come down to OS background and personal taste. While I love having arrows available to both hands Id personally want IJKL arrow keys, for example, which better match what Im used to. Whatever I make will be fully reprogrammable, so that wont be an issue. But more subtly Id be concerned about chording to access the arrow keys because I tend to do a lot of multi-chorded arrow strokes already (control-shift-right-right-right) and adding another modifier strikes me as a lot of buttons to juggle at once. Yep. With the current design, that works becuase its easy to put one finger on blueshift+shift. One could also create a set of keys that are control-shift arrows Im working on refining the layout of the thumb keys, too. Why not move Tab down to the G? Wouldnt that be an easier location to reach? In the latest redesign, I actually moved tab and return to thumb keys. Do you find that you still use shift on the opposite hand as what youre shifting, as you need to for a more typical keyboard? I do, mostly at least.

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@Dan - Yeah, I dont know what to recommend to you. Personally, Im a big fan of the brown stemmed cherry switches. Best, Jesse

What city are you near, Dan? There may be a retailer or something you could try. I dont feel like clicking a single switch is a great way to get a sense of what typing on something feels like. What keyboards have you enjoyed typing on?

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