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I'm keeping a gallery (just for a quick overview) of ergonomic keyboards. It might be useful for others interested in this thread. There's a lot of options, from something you can order from a large retailer, to a kit to solder yourself, to just plans to download.

https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/




You mention "Ergodox" instead of "Ergodox EZ". Ergodox is an open-source design that anyone can make. Ergodox EZ is an implementation of the design by one particular company.


I decided not to mention each Ergodox design -- as far as I know, Ergodox / Ergodox EZ is pretty much the same thing. I don't also list, for example, Falba.Tech's wooden versions of several of the keyboards.

I should probably remove the ErgoDone and Ergodox Infinity for consistency.


Thanks for the gallery! I'm surprised there aren't more integrated pointing devices (like TrackPoints).


There's been some tries in that area, using basically the blackberry trackball.

https://i.redd.it/ddu76x8mwg221.jpg


I wanted to build a custom keyboard with a track point but couldn’t find any suppliers. Does anybody know of any?


There's the Tex Yoda and other Tex keyboards -- I suppose if nothing else there's buying one of those keyboards and repurposing the TrackPoint and its PCB if necessary?


Yeah the only way I've seen to do it is to rip one out of an existing keyboard sadly.


I was surprised not to see the Tron ones, but then I assumed nobody is making them.

Such a shame.




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