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I 3d printed a custom sized keyboard using open source software and hardware designs.
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45765963
The design is based on the excellent Dactyl keyboard, generated with https://ryanis.cool/cosmos/ and it runs the excellent qmk firmware. It is handwired:
and I have also made a palm support using inkscape and openscad
All printed on a reprap prusa i3 derivative.
This helps me use my computer with less pain, so I want to call out all the wonderful projects and people who contribute to them which made it possible.
Total cost? $60 aud, amortised filament ~15 bucks worth maybe? and a lot of my time haha.
AFAIK you shouldn't need wrist rests, dactyl should allow you to rest on table nicely!
(I have a Scylla)
I'm sorry I made my custom keyboard wrong.
I don't think that was meant as criticism, it seemed like they were trying to be helpful.
Awesome keeb, BTW!
Helpful, how? Obviously I am using palm rests because it is more comfortable than not using palm rests. If I have made them to a specific height one might imagine I had a specific reason no?
Helpful by sharing information they believed to be true, that they thought you might not have heard/known. I don't see any malice in their post or any expectation that you change what you're doing.
That's not helpful
Respectful, I disagree. I've learned a lot from people making small comments like that, even when they're unintentionally blunt.
What could I learn from that?
The person has not built a dactyl, they have not used this dactyl which has several customisations, they have not sat at my desk, they don't have my body.
They're just stating something useless from a position of ignorance because.... why? If you don't know what you're talking about just don't say anything. 90% of the misinformation on the internet would disappear overnight if people followed that. As a happy side effect men online might learn some basic manners too.