i love that this community is basically a bunch of people trying to create stuff and help each other. I have yet to run into drama or anything. not even entitled people. just diyer trying to build something specific to them

Man this build was crazy nice! Props to you

I love that you designed and printed your own keycaps! I did the same thing for my Dactyl Manuform

Your video production quality has always been amazing but this was incredible. Keep up the impressive work, my friend!

You are amazing Jan! Thank you so much for making it all open source.

I really have been getting into custom keyboards lately. It is interesting to see your mind set here keeping basically a standard setup and keeping all the keys people take out. I am almost done wiring up my manuform and I also have a ferris sweep keyboard about done and it's always fun to see all of these ideas of how people want their setups to be. I really love customizing something I use every day to what I want it to be, really love that aspect! You should make something you use every day exactly what you want and not have to adapt to what is available. This is one major reason I love 3D printing. You can make anything as long as you got the idea and time to spend. Great video!

I love the track pointer for the index finger idea!

Wow, this is stunning! That cup/rake looks so comfortable, and a trackpoint is absolutely the missing piece of every ergo keyboard.

Amazing project. Well done!

Since learning that handwiring exists, this opens up so many possibilities for me as a new hobbyist. Thank you for sharing!

Vielen Dank für das tolle Video! Ich habe so Lust die Tastatur nachzubauen!

You are a great person! kudos on all of your efforts

Amazing job! Congratulations. I subscribed. Please keep doing this DIY split keyboards videos. I love to split keyboards.

This design is beautiful. I would love to see 'smaller+wireless' version one day. Love your works!

Great design updates. Sorely needed.

Wow, bravo. This is amazing

I'm incredibly nervous about trying to make this or something similar, going to have to commission the printing and I worry it's a lot of work for something that might not help but I've got a hand injury that's messed me up a lot and I hope something like this will lighten the load. This video was amazing though and I appreciate the effort you put in!

Amazing as always

Beautifully done! I have always wanted to try out the Dactyl Manuform, but I had the same complaints about the jagged design. I would love to see you make one of these without the function row.

Love cool videos like this. Innovation always comes from the ppl. Free the patents!! Can’t wait until the ultimate input device is created.

Wonderful work! I will build mine one day.

Awesome work

I seriously can't wait for your new smaller build! Would you consider making room for some knobs aswell? Amazing job!

zmk now supports ps/2 input, baby! you can now wire the trackpoint directly to the microcontroller or even go full wireless with mouse input.

Great work!

Thank you and best regards.

Amazing. I’m looking forward to building a wireless IF-Corne with lubbed Gateron Reds w/ symbol pastel keycaps + trackpoint in the future. I’ve seen builds with 4 months battery life

Qmk firmware and the GUI editor seems to have mousekeys mouse input modes as well. I'm just learning about them but they seem feature complete for acceleration, speed and left and right click. Awesome project thanks for sharing.

Awesome stuff 🙂

You probably should've used polygonal modelling software to make smooth shape. It's really hard to make a flowing shapes in CAD software. And while sharing source files is good thing. The thing with such freeform keyboard is the button curvature and placement are heavily affected by one's hand size. So if you don't an addition of you hand size information would be just great.

Hello! Excellent video! I thought I was alone in my fusion keyboard modelling struggles in switching from the usual extrude, chamfer, fillet workflow, and into form modelling. The thing that helped me bring the vertices to exact locations is to have sketch points already in place (derived from a ready premade plate) and then using the pull command to snap form vertices into position.

legend, i need this to play wow

Yes, I want more like these! I'd love to hack a trackpoint to something like GergoPlex… which would be tricky

the trackpoint is something I would like to add to my Moonlander keyboard. Everything else is really brilliant with the Moonlander for my purposes

The video is great, the keyboard is great, and the tracepoint is why I am here~~~~~~ I need this!

I was looking for a dactly board yesterday, that had f keys, but could not find any. I was also wondering how nice it would be if it also had a mouse nib. This video must be sent to me by the universe. Great video, great keyboard, thanks.

Very nice video

Awesome! The Dactyl is the pinnacle in all ergonomic keyboards that I have been able to find. The one remaining issue to be solved, even for ergonomic keyboards, is that you still have to move your hand between the keyboard and the mouse. Your solution and Quentin's solution with the integrated trackball solve that last remaining problem. I wonder what more can be improved. I also wonder how much improvement the concave shape has over a small flat keyboard, such as in Ben Vallack's recent video “The REAL Ergonomic Keyboard Endgame!”.

I really like your version! A long time ago I saw a picture of a modified Kinesis Advantage that had the trackpoint between the keycaps, since that time I expected to see something similar but in Dactyl Manuform (Or original Dactyl) until I see yours and it looks too cool. I have a question do you think the trackpoint is the most comfortable for the one who wants to have many keys without sacrificing the mouse or ergonomy? I have seen Dactyl with trackball (Finger and thumb operated versions) some people say that is much more accurate but I almost always see that there is something to sacrifice, Trackball is less keys (On Thumb) or less ergonomics (off the board), Trackpoint requires drilling holes in keycaps, and there are sets that are expensive, especially if they are made of PBT. Thanks for showing your work, I find you amazing! By the way, there is a thumb cluster created by Carbonfet that is identical to yours but with 6 keys, you might like it. Greetings from Venezuela.

I love it. I have just printed one case and failed, but my failed print made me realise that the layout doesn’t entirely suit me. You mention that you’re working on a smaller version, How far along are you? 😊

Wow, this is impressive. My 3d printer broke, so I can't 3d print it (yet). Btw, I love your audio quality!

1:02 I'm watching this one year after finishing my Dactyl-Manuform 5x6 and even though its smaller, i often need to press 3 keys to get a specific symbol or action that i want

Really nice, I kept waiting to find out how you got it so smooth. 18 hours of sanding. Lol that's a lot. I was able to get a really nice look on a PETG white manuform by doing light sanding (30 min tops) and then a lot of primer and then a layer of paint. If you google the 'mango keyboard', I made that one without much sanding. But obviously you'll still see some roughness and print lines up close.

Awesome work, Jan! Just started a test print of your wDactyl Right hand case! Should be complete tomorrow evening! Pardon my noobie knowledge: What keyswitches fit into this build? This is my first keyboard build and plan to order parts soon. Cheers

What about two trackpoints? Right one controls cursor, left one controls scrolling (vertical and horizontal) Also trackpoints can be clickable, emulating mouse buttons.

Awesome, can't wait to print it and start soldering :D By the way where did you get a trackpoint from? From my perspective the old lenovo x230 and earlier are good HW and the new ones suck in terms of mechanical quality. Thanks and have a great day!

I wish there was a keyboard that is just like Logitech Ergo 860 but with a trackpad built in in the middle. - cable and wireless option. - That would be a banger! You seem like a guy who could build and patent that.

If you are doing it parametrically, why don't you use a Sphere or something to "wrap" the keys around programmatically, then stencil it in as a negative and smoosh as required. It doesn't let you do the staggered columning like you have here where the middle finger is deeper than the others but it would allow you to get a prototype done easier. I sorta thought of it like pushing a balloon with the keys glued to it into a soft mold and gaining that shape. Just an idea since I've watched a total of 2:55 of the video so far

Hey thnx for always making interesting contents. I was wondering if there is any chance for you to make a full tutorial guide on your 60% keyboard build? Cuz I really wanna build something similar to that but I lack a bit of knowledge and understanding behind the wiring, how you use the pro micro controller and the qmk firmware in general. Would be nice if you could share some insights. Cheers for the great vids!

Looking to make a similar design , hated the sharp edges. Might be easier using Zbrush and your boolean method to shape the form. Yours looks nice though ,will use PLA to test print and them maybe rubber coat who knows. Very nice job thought.

I haven’t used Fusion 360 yet but I have used lots of other CAD softwares. Are you familiar with the term NURB? It’s parametric modeling. Something like Rhino 3D might help you get those consistent thicknesses over curved surfaces.

The trackpoint mod is genius. I miss the trackpoint on my desktop.

Hi Jan, really like the design! Im wondering is it possible to use different mx type of keycaps and what profile since i am not going with the track point? Thanks!

I'm currently designing a split 65% layout and I'd love to hear a bit more detail on how you actually got the trackpoint functioning as a standalone device.

really like the track point . if can be wireless will be great

hi, great video. Not really a question related to the main subject. What Think pad or keyboard did you get that track point from? I've wanted to add a track point to my board but the modules I have have the sensor and controller fixed together. It looks like the one you used has the sensor on a long flex which I think is exactly what I'm looking for!

Schöne Arbeit! Bin auch gerade beim zeichnen in Fusion und verzweifel daran so halb :) Ich würd mir aber auch gern ne Handballenauflage dazu machen - und außerdem gern Wireless gehen. Hat das nen Grund, warum dein wDactyl.f3d lediglich die rechte Seite des Splits enthält? Oder überseh ich irgendwas total einfaches? Aber Danke fürs Bereitstellen :)

Come on... This is too good!

hi i have got a question, I want to buid a dactyl keyboard myself but dont know how the two halfs comunicate with each other and wanted to aks if and whe you will make a smaller version? btw nice video

I'm printing this as a gamepad, the design is just so attractive, that I had to try it. So... Any recommendations for a newb to understand wiring? I've never been really good with the electriconics

This is amazing work. It's a little strange how much effort we're willing to go to for the perfect keyboard, eh? Or maybe not, considering how much of our lives are spent using them. I am looking to do something similar, but I really want to have the ctrl and alt keys. I'm also thinking about a small trackball and some dials. And probably an OLED. My desk is huge so that's not a concern. I might call it "the kitchen sink." I've tried remodeling in Blender from the OpenSCAD Dactyl Manuform file, but the geometry it gives is absolutely horrendous. Everywhere I go, I find extra polygons, swapped normals, duplicated lines... it's very frustrating. Even just cleaning up a single bolt hole on the bottom is a huge mess. It's making me question just how badly I want this. Anyway, keep it up. I look forward to what else you will come up with!

nice

I've seen a few of these. For some reason, nobody: takes their 3d print, sands it smooth, makes a silicone mold, then casts a resin copy. It seems like the logical next step, no? Then you can sell them.

Hi Jan, nice build. The STL is in a surprising (standing upright) position. Is that really how you printed it?

I would love to know where I can get a track point to add to my pcb, but wondering if they have a Bluetooth version as well, as I am using nice!nano

Which printer do you use, and also do you have any pointers on making this hot swappable, I am getting into coding and also looking into 3d printing so any pointers would help. Love the content.

COOOOOOOOOOOLLLL!!!

Great project, I love it. But after building the keyboard I can't figure out how to set it up. Link to your fimware files doesn't work and I'm a noobie in terms of keyboard building. Can you give me a hint?

I don't know where to buy this thing. it looks amazing

i think this would be perfect in 6x7

Great reuse of the trackpoint! Do you know if anyone sells 3rd party trackpoints/trackballs/tiny trackpads? Anything to avoid having to move your hand to the mouse

How do you find the Colemak layout for languages other than English? I had been considering using Dvorak with a button to (clicky) switch to German characters and another to switch to French.

you know exactly the model of the trackpoint, I need it for my corne

very nice. where di d you put the mouse clicks?

I am intrigued by your comment of hovering. IT sounded like you said your shoulders and neck would NOT get into stiff positions if you hover your hands. This sounds counter to my thinking. I also use an ergo mouse and its precisely the fact I can rest my wrist on it that allows the joints in my arm to relax and have freedom. Similarly when I am typing on my laptop keyboard my wrists are firmly planted on the machine and my writs do all the actuating to allow my fingers to reach all the keys away from home. But as soon as I hover my hands over the keyboard I feel my shoulders lock up, and over time my elbows start to feel stiction. Is this not how you experience hovering?

Did you print that Trackpoint extension stem? Or was it part of the Thinkpad USB keyboard?

Is there a way to buy printed shell? I kinda like the shape and I want to replace my Razer Orbweaver but buying 3d printer and learning how to print properly seems like too high price.

finaly a split ortolinear with nipple mouse

Does the shell operation allow you to achieve consistent wall thickness?

Shit... just finished my dactyl manuform, now I need to build another hahahahhaha

nail polish should smooth out FDM surface

Is there also enough space to socket the Pro Micros? Thank you.

Gibts nen Vergleich zum Moonlander?

just some words: where can I buy it

Hey! It's been a year since this video, and I wanted to know are yoy still using this keyboard and how does it feel? Maybe you've made improvements to it

would it work with nicenanos for a wireless version?

how did you connect the trackpoint to the microcontroller?

Hi Jan, are you up for selling yours or making another?

hello sir, where the file STL dactyl on the right ?

Are the keys hot-swappable for this one?

Why do you like the captain america actor

Is this available for sale?

Are you still using it? If not, why change?

I just hate that after many years of keyboards being made, we finally made some that actually fits perfectly to our hands, for over $500!!!!!

you look like a runescape character

Man, why you never ever show on youtube how you actually typing on all his weird things???

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Ok awesome video. But consider changing up some mic settings. I literally hear your saliva smacking for every single word you say and it’s distracting.