This is a fork of the Dactyl, a parameterized, split-hand, concave, columnar, ergonomic keyboard.
I wanted to have a Dactyl with Topre switches, I built a couple of working prototypes before that, one was in the form of a PCB with an arduino controller. I then created a small breakout board / controller based off the awesome nice!nano instead so that I could hopefully handwire a Dactyl.
Had the case 3D printed, see below, but does not feel as comfortable as my Kinesis 360 so intending to modify again to get closer to it (see existing forks: Dactyl CC).
Changes:
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Modified switch holes to accept single unit custom Topre PCB as well as hold Realforces switch mechanisms (bought a couple off ebay, they are not that uncommon)
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Modified the layout to be close to a Kinesis advantage with a more ergonomic thumb island (after 3d printing the case, it just didn't work, needs to be redesigned, too large for me)
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Added bottom plate
For reference see: Dactyl-manuform
Copyright © 2015-2017 Matthew Adereth and Tom Short
The source code for generating the models (everything excluding the things/ and resources/ directories is distributed under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3. The generated models and PCB designs are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License Version 3.0.