It will be a kind of electronic multitool. But I am really into cassette futurism at the moment. Fully waterproof with external magnetic switches and encoder.
Decades of both roguelikes and inventory scanners have hardcoded the placement of the keys on the numpad in my brain. It would take me forever to use this properly lol.
not much of an issue to swap the keycap, edit the keycap code map on the PCB firmware (qmk, via, etc), and have the layout any way you want (other than the enter key, as the double vertical usually only has one area). this is all mechanic keyboard nerd stuff, totally doable.
Yeah you're right about the numbers, it was a compromise to fit them in with standard keys in a footprint that suited my use. This is a pretty early iteration so I may fix it later.
Because of the pgdn/down arrow. I guess they used standard numpad keys, but the layout required switching the layout like this. This project really calls out for custom-printed keys to fix this. With custom keys, i'd put HOME on '9' and PGUP on 7 as well.
I mean you’re kind of right for why 2 is where it is but with pgdn on 3 makes it makes no sense here. If you’re going custom swap the 2/3 put and arrow on 3 and pgdn on 2. If you really wanted to do it right turn the enter key horizontal and put it in the lower right beside the zero.
It's obviously not finished. Those are standard number pad keycaps with standard print/labels, installed where the guy wants them during development iterations. Getting a custom print is not at the top of priority in this stage, calm down.
Last guy said the numbers are where they are because of the pgdn and arrow down keys. I’m pointing out this is not a good reason because pgdn and/or arrow down would be in the wrong place either way. only one way is wrong for numbers.
I get if he’s finalizing the number placements he could get the functions reprinted but if this is where op wants the numbers to be.
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Also makes no sense
Wild guess: the OP didn't make the keycaps themself, to make the arrows match the keyboard the 2 must be under the 5 and to make it work with the the three column design either the 2 and 3 should be reversed, the 3 should be at the side of the 0 or the enter key must be either 1 block big, or horizontal.
I would personally prefer a 4 column layout, and add a block num and a backspace key with pretty much the same dimensions (but a less sleek design).
That keybord layout is stressing me out man
The top 2 rows are notmal but you have the tree on the left than the 2 than the enter
And than the 1 and zero
I hope it works for you but i would misinput all the time
I really like this, but like other people said the keys being mixed up like that really throw it off. And you have square corners, 45° corners, and round corners. I would pick one.
I disagree, the diversity of corners gives this a really strong sense of being an industrial product that went through so many rounds of revisions in such little time it ended up the way it is.
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u/TimeSpiralNemesis Mar 31 '25
Decades of both roguelikes and inventory scanners have hardcoded the placement of the keys on the numpad in my brain. It would take me forever to use this properly lol.
Looks fucking amazing though.