Just a small correction, ZMK supports mouse keys already. I hope you get better soon and thanks for the content.

You cant play with it or work, since there are no mouse and arrows with shortcuts and numpad.

8:24 "still use normal rows keyboards for gaming or hotkey focused workflows" ... which keyboard can be comfortable for programming, browsing, working in graphic software? splits with less 50 keys not good for that?

every time a try to solder my own, everything else melts except the solder wire. lol dont understand how you did it

7:00 this happened to me when switching from KOY to NOTED

Ledgend.

Ok I'm revisiting this video over and over again, you sold me I'm getting the damn thing...

You typing is so annoying to watch.

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Look up CharaCorder Keyboard

Awesome video. I’m just wondering how well you can use the Svalboard for gaming in FPS games? I really want to try this out as the Azeron Cyborg II looks good but I don’t like to have to use a joystick for my thumb. The Svalboard has a way better setup for your thumb as you can easily hit all 5 keys.

Do you know roughly how much the whole thing cost you? I want to build my own keyboard too because the one I need isn’t available to buy.

You look like emperor Palpatine in that chair lol get well soon! ❤

I got the problem with right half sweep, am i setting pin wrong? whlch ls just sam as the left half, GP, Drive label, Helios

Very cool project, but the self-print option’s price feels discouraging. I understand higher costs if it were preassembled, shipped, or otherwise fully handled. However, when I’m already 3D printing all the parts, ordering a PCB, gathering materials, and assembling everything myself-essentially doing the bulk of the work outside of the initial design -it’s frustrating to still pay more than a high-quality metal keyboard just to access the schematics. I completely respect the idea of supporting designers and making a profit on your work. The downside is that this pricing can put the project out of reach for many people who would truly benefit from it. It’s unfortunate, because there’s so much potential here. Marking up the price simply because competing alternatives are also expensive feels a bit like pharmaceutical companies overcharging for medicine, knowing there’s limited competition. That sort of pricing strategy ends up hurting the people who need the product most.

Thank you so much for this i made a little 3x3 rp2040 macropad and thanks to this firmware i got it up and running in 5 minutes im 13 and im proud of myself i made the whole thing in a day

gosh as someone with really arthritic hands and wrists, and a reliance on keyboards for work, I will definitely be saving up for one of these. dreaming of the day i can throw my crappy and mostly ineffective wrist rest away

Hello Jan, I have tried to use POG, without success. I do not know why this is not working, but I expected it to work as it is. I'm using a Mac as well. Is there any way to help you to make it work? I'm also programmer.

Can you play shooter games?

the build part was great and really easy to follow, but the coding part is really hard to understand. im traying to make one for myself but i just keep getting errors and im having trouble getting solutions

This is awesome ! Thanks

As cool as it looks, is this really that ergonomic? Looks rigid just having your fingers seating fixed in that position. Won't some movement help with the health of the joints too?

The clips at the makes it look like you are reaching with an index finger. Like you don't have enough height for it to be at the correct resting place.

How can i add an 0.96" oled dispaly in this setup??

Will the trackball fall out if you use a vertical mount instead of horizontal?

Man, thiking on ditching my kinesis for these now

I'm not having any trouble understanding you. Still, I hope you'll feel better soon.

13:23 I was using one large 1080p monitor anyway, so I'm trying to replace it with Viture Pro XR "AR" glasses. They're pretty good so far for a lot of reasons. Yes, the corners are a little blurry for me, but a lot of tasks are working out great. There is a way to enable tracking so it stays pinned like a real monitor, but I haven't yet because you need Gnome, not KDE, for it. It's fine to wear these all day long, it's no fun to wear a VR headset all day long. I can also see my hands and stuff in them.

the price is really dishonest and saying this cant get cheaper is at leats naive, that self print kit would cost as most 50$ with PCBA and all the components

The demonstration at the end reminded me of operating my Steam Deck as a tablet in Desktop Mode. Its virtual keyboard is more limited on special characters, but otherwise the ergonomics of using it are great after enabling Trigger Clicks. Operating the rest of the system is ever so slightly more awkward than a standard M+KB setup, but by far the best I tried for a controller like grip. That is not even covering FlickStick in first person games, which feels plain better than standard M+KB input but is slightly less accurate. Though large swipes on the horizontal axis are more accurate again, due to the direct nature of the FlickStick mapping.

This is the first time I've seen a Patreon scroll with just a single patron and it was abolutely hilarious. "All the thanks in the world to my only *real* fan, Chris"

how to set layout for shift+2 for @ key on POG software

it looks like an azeron but with track balls instead of joysticks

How are you controlling your desktop with the Svalboard while you are in VR with the Quest 3? Are you running a long wire from your computer to the Svalboard? I think the Quest 3 only allows Bluetooth input devices.

I recently got a trackball-equipped keyboard with a corne-layout. I totally get the need for an integrated pointing device! For me, it's the holy grail of ergonomic keyboards. Unfortunately, mine arrived damaged and I don't have the ability to 3D print one. Hopefully more accessible options will be available in the future. Svalboard is amazing, but the price keeps me from getting one for now.

I have zero programming experience-had never built a custom keyboard before. Using pog, I was able to build my first firmware, start to finish, in about an hour. I’m confident that I could do it again in about 15 minutes. Great work!

Valeu!

I understand. Im assembling mine for similar reasons. I can send you some of the things that worked for ne

this make soldering look easier

I had convinced myself that i didnt need one of these. Thanks for nothing and making me realize that i really do need one. Now i need to convince my wife that i need to spend in another keyboard

yeah, kinda bummer when all I do is play...can you play with that ?

While the price is a bit steep, and not something that someone with issues but not a deep pocket is able to get all that easily. It does look incredibly interesting. And I'm also quite interested in seeing this being used for gaming

I really like this! I would also really like someone to compare a characorder 2 or master forge to this style of switches.

nice video, the Svalboard with the trackball seems interesting. I actually quiet like your chair. What model is that one?

You cut the part of the sentence at 1:40

thank you, get well soon and have a nice day.

2 meters from a 43" monitor is way too far away.

Fun bit of trivia is that the datahand keyboard was used as the control input on the spaceship in the movie Contact.

Every keyboard should have a trackpoint. They are awesome.

Interesting video, thanks for making it! Let me share some background: I've started using Colemak in 2007, and switched to a Kinesis Advantage 1 in 2008, and have gone through many ergo keyboards since, the sculpted ones being my favorite. Have been using a Charybdis for almost a year now, and it's my current favorite, followed by the Kinesis non-Pro 360, and Glove80 in the third place. Flat ergo boards, such as the ErgoDox, are fine too, just not quite as comfortable. I'm lucky to be healthy so haven't had the need to do something as drastic as a Datahand or Svalboard, but it's good to know there are even more options should the need arise. I was wondering, how comfortable are the sideways "key presses"? I always imagined them as being somewhat uncomfortable, but you mentioned nothing of the sort. So it seems they're the least used directions anyway, after straight down, and "regular" up and down. You mentioned two extra rows, so maybe the number row and F-key row, plus the diagonal keys from a regular upper and lower row on the index and pinky side, which also need to live somewhere.