inspired by Maria's last post, I thought I ought to show off my custom keyboard I made with my girlfriend! It's a fucked up layout that I like. It's technically open source but I really wouldn't recommend it as I've never bothered to actually get the screen working 🥴
Here's a closer-up of the custom xenia keycaps I got made
And here's a close-up of the silkscreened comic sans text
17 Comments
lena@gregtech.eu · 28 pts · 7h
Wow this layout is fucked up. Good job!
Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 6h
looks pretty orderly to me.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 4h
But why are the pipe and slash keys on the bottom row :(
Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 3h
eh, let them have fun. seems pretty reasonable to me. not everything needs to bog-standard qwerty whatever everyone's used to.
erinmeow@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 6h
qwerty layout iss
riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 7h
woaggh
gay🥺
what do the portal keys do?
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 7h
They switch layers, which lets my type more symbols, emoji, print screen etc. oh, I guess I should also say that the rotary encoders do volume up/down and track forward and back and when pressed in they play/pause. They were intended to both have separate functions when pressed in but I did an oopsie in the pcb so they do the same thing. I could fix it with a razor and some wire but I haven't been bothered to in the last year or two
Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 6h
woah so cool :o
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 5h
Thanks, I hate it!
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 3h
I guess you're not the dumb gay that it was designed for
jodanlime@midwest.social · 5 pts · 6h
It's pretty close to a OLKB Preonic other than the arrow keys.
erinmeow@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 6h
YUUUUUUM I NEEEEEEEED NEEEEEEEED NEEED awawwaawwaawwa never tried fancy layout however sometimes wants :3 awawawawaw diy keyboards fuuuunnnnnnn, also i need thissss xeniaaa keycapsss
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2h
Here's the xenia design I used: https://xenia.efi.pages.gay/#story-1060874032997836179. And here's the company I got the keycaps from: https://fkcaps.com/
hamsamrich@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 6h
Great work. Those key caps are beautiful. If it was working, what would you display on the screen?
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 4h
Ok you inspired me I'm going to take pictures of my keyboard now, but it needs a cleaning first standby.
EmberKitty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3h
i love ortho keyboards, if only i had more than -39 USD :p
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org · 1 pts · 3h
Somebody remind me to Ost a picture of mine after the weekend (I am not at home right now)