Model: OLKB Planck
Switches: Cherry MX Blue
I love it, exactly what I want to build
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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It can be difficult to transition to. But, I went hard mode (I decided to learn touch typing rather than the blind four fingered hunt and peck I'd been doing for years), so I switched from standard qwerty to ortholinear Dvorak, so your mileage may vary.
Wow, when I first opened the image it was squished to 50% width, each key looked like a piano key. That was a real wtf moment.
Beautiful looking keyboard
Thank you! I like it
Serious question: How do you type on flat profile without having your hands hurt? I could never get use to flat keys and spherical work the best.
I don't know how to answer you exactly. My hands don't hurt. Maybe it's because of the combo of the ortholinear keyboard and the Dvorak layout causing me to move my fingers minimally.
That could be it. Also mechanical keys probably play a role. I had a laptop with flat keys and within a week of use I had to start lugging my keyboard around with me.
Yeah, I had a MacBook once with really flat keys and no travel when you pressed a key. After an hour of using it I felt like I had been typing on concrete.
Not OP, but I also use flat keycaps, so I thought I'd chime in. I'm not really sure why your hands would hurt with flat keycaps, but one of the reasons I chose to use flats were to allow for easier chording with Plover.
This looks so inconvenient. Glad you like it, but this is 'awful taste, great execution" for me.
I'll make it even worse for you... It's setup for Dvorak.
Well that’s just sensible unlike the rest
Possibly the only good thing about this lol
Looks nice! I daily drove something like this for a couple of years, then transitioned to a split ortholinear layout, so a bit different but pretty much the same thing.
I want to move on to a split ortholinear too
Yeah, having the split is super nice, personally I use a BFO-9000 PCB with 3D printed keycaps and case.
That's great! What firmware is that running?
It uses QMK with a custom layout.
QMK is great! I love how customizable it is! It's great to be able to code in your own functionally that the keyboard was never intended to have
Hot swappable? I'm wondering if the sockets are what make the keys sit slightly off square and even, couldn't be the key caps could it?
All the keys being so square and uniform leads you to notice places where it's not exactly perfect. It is annoying.
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Has a 3d printed feel from the photo. Did you make the whole thing, case, pcb, keycaps?
No, the keyboard is a kit you can get on Mass Drop. The keycaps were novelty caps from Pimp My Keyboard.
Like the look. I really want to give ortho a try one day. On some level, it is what keyboards should have been all along. The current shifted design was just due to technical limitations, where you needed to shift the keys to make sure old type writers could work. This day and age, it's just a historical holdover.