I just finished this fun little keeb which I based off the Hummingbird, but I made it hot swappable, dropped the pinkies down more, made the thumbs more reachy, and spaced it for Chosfox CFX keycaps (tighter than standard Choc spacing).

It has a top plate and sound-dampening silicone gasket, as well as foam on the backside of the PCB.

Everything is open sourced on my github

tern top

tern quarter view

tern bottom

  • Hazel@keeb.lolM
    4·
    1 year ago

    Super clean! I’ve had Egret bookmarked for a bit as inspiration, and tern is now being bookmarked as well. Keep up the great work!

    • crankin@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thanks Hazel! The feeling is mutual, I’ve had your badwings boards bookmarked myself for a while now.

  • ryncewynd@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I guess this relies heavily on home row mods?

    So far I’ve never had a clean typing experience with home row mods 😢

    I love them, I just keep getting accidental triggers no matter what configuration I use. And eventually I have to disable them.

    Would love to have them work perfectly but maybe that’s just not possible due to just… That’s how it is

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    Looks great! Is there a builder YouTube channel that shows the design / execution of something like this? If no, maybe you’ve got an opportunity knocking!

  • jhelvy@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is beautiful. Exactly the layout that I’ve been wanting too - 23332 for the fingers and 2 thumbs. I think this is the ideal balance between too few and too many keys while remaining super comfy.