20 seconds in and I'm already super impressed by this project!

Very impressed with your strength/weakness awareness and your problem solving approach to the challenges you encountered. You’re definitely capable of working with QMK/ZMK, and think you would make some very interesting keyboard it you did. Looking forward to the eventual version 3.

That's awesome. definitely respect to the "There's already existing solutions for this" for the less critical parts to what you wanted to accomplish. Super cool project!

This is freaking fantastic, from the idea, to the execution, to the video production. Great job! Super inspired to give a custom keyboard a try again!

Wow I have to say that I genuinely envy your ability to recognise your strengths and weaknesses! You built something so cool with off-the-shelf parts and made use of your existing knowledge to make this. That's true hacking right there, Kudos and great project!

I like that you that show your thinking process as well as your failures, we can learn so much from that. I will follow you now and see what cool things you make!

Absolutely love this! Great project!

love the colors, and so functional! awesome project

Nice project! If you want a smaller receiver with single usb, i think wireless signal of the mouse is capturable with 2.4ghz tranceiver modules through arduino. Or you can connect an old PS/2 mouse to arduino.

This is actually kind of cool. Plan 9 and the Acme editor has a thing called chording which makes heavy use of both the mouse and keyboard for operations in a true graphical TUI. So I wonder how well something like this can handle simultaneous two and three mouse button inputs?

I love seeing your process Taliyah!! 💗💗

Really cool project! Though I wouldn't want my keyboard to not be stable on the desk when I type, and I would probably opt for a simple joystick, trackball or touchpad. Doesn't mean this isn't awesome though, great job!

Awesome video👍🏽

Good job, I also started a 3d printed split keyboard/mouse combo but i used a touchpad in the middle. keep up the good work 👍 One thing that might make it a bit nicer is to put the two devices behind a (hidden) hub so you only have one cable to the laptop. i got mine cheap off aliexpress as a pcb

What a great learning experience! Well done.

Great video. You should try to make your keyboard column staggered

I'm constantly amazing by some peoples creativity. Good work!

You should look into keyboards like corne, ortholinear split with layers.

Interesting project! what do you have against the column-staggered layout?

I started a split keyboard with integrated mouse build some years ago. Never finished it, but I thought this might be the future lol

Great work! 🙌

Thanks for sharing your project! This was unconventional in some regards at least for me as somebody used to split mechanical keyboards. But I really like your way of hacking and DIYing your way to make your idea work. Really great work!

Well done! So innovated, keep up the good work :)

Clever way to solve the mouse! As for the issue with connections breaking, I HIGHLY recommend silicone wire of a thin gauge. It flexes like string! Not too expensive either, maybe $12 for a bunch of tools on Amazon.

Really fantastic overview and cool concept! I'm a total beginner and this is so well explained. Would a wrist rest help with the height of the keyboard? One of those memory foam cloud ones would pair well with your keyboard.

Impressive! Well done!:)

this is epic, I really love it!

Hi. Thank you for this unique cute keyboard+mouse and I will make one from my old broken laptop keyboard. A idea for soldering the resistors and wires is to make a loop to make a big connection with the switch. Also I planned to convert I2C old mouse touchpad to USB and the keyboard on same controller.

This project makes me *feel things* Might want to start a project over the next semester... My grades are gonna take a hit from this...

I'm so glad UKposts recommended this to me!

This was amazing. You're awesome

Great Video! Subbed!

Why did you use resistors instead of diodes in a matrix? You wouldn't have to do any analog voltage reading with diodes, which makes the whole process much simpler.

The end result looks pretty good. You should have gone with a standard key matrix and diodes instead of the resistor setup though, that allows for any combination or even all keys to be pressed at the same time.

great job

Everything about this is very cool, but I have to give credit to your colorway design as well. :)

Awesome video. Please make audio louder next time ;)

Love the project, can I ask why you didn’t utilize Bluetooth enabled controllers like the Nice!Nano and utilized ZMK firmware? Seems like that would have made this project a lot easier. I love all the steps you took to solve each problem on your own though!

this is very cool!

I'm pretty late to the party but nevertheless I have to say that your project is really impressive and informative. The resistor based signaling might not be bleeding edge, but very ingenious. As for ideas for future improvements, I have to highlight how important liftoff functionality is for both a mouse and a trackpad. Of course in your case it's impossible so I would recommend you to program a macro on the keyboard as a quick mouse disconnect. Therefore you could emulate the "liftoff" by turning the mouse sensor on and off. Another functionality must is to have both sides of your keyboard just as grippy when in keyboard mode. The nicest (from UX side) solution would probably be some sort of large spring loaded button at the top of your mouse keyboard that, when pushed would engage a lever and push down some slippery feet, therefore setting it in mouse mode. Releasing the button should retract the feet and set the keyboard down on some rubbery pads glued to the bottom of the keyboard. This solution is obviously fairly elaborated mechanically wise and it would induce a new plethora of stress inducing forces to your, already fairly brittle, 3D printed frame. Thanks again for the inspiring project, I might even build my own

Time to learn KiCad.

WOW! Thanks for this super-awesome, super-inspiring project! Also, consider using a switch statement instead of a series of ifs to resolve the keypress. It is more efficient - probably more energy efficient as well?

SUPER COOL!!!

neat actually...this could be a better macropad....having mouse and encoder and function switched separate for editing (Video, Photo Blender,...)

Epic keyboard 🚀🚀🚀

This is what I called, Engineering, use things and tools to resolve a problem or a need!

is it good?

How can you do this??? Brother...

learn how to use multiplexers - it will blow your mind!

You can get your own PCB fabricated. That would make the packaging slimmer.

Wow! I smiled during the entire thing. Amazing. Somebody give this woman some money! I want this keyboard! Fantastic!

AWESOME IDEA! Very beautifuly executed and also VERY cute! hahahaha...

An idea I could suggest : moving the right half of the keyboard seems detrimental to ergonomic, so if you could maybe remove the mouse, and add some sort of thinkpad-esque trackpoint, kinda like some gaming oriented gamepad do (see Razer Tartarus for reference, it's not an actual joystick like on a controller and instead an 8 way D-Pad, but you'll get the idea visually) that you could access with your thumb, that would render the keyboard static and less taxing on your right shoulder. Issue is how to implement that into the electronics and physically as well. Also, still in line with ergonomic, maybe tilt each side like so / \. Maybe this could help with the size contraint of the inside. And/or, if you consider including some fort of wrist rest into the keyboard, especially if it ends up being static, you could shove some of the guts in to the wristrest and reduce the overall height That or... since you can get standalone touchpads for use on desktop PC, you could include a touchpad in the wristrest of either side. Think of an 'adesso tru-form pro' but as a split keyboard. OR, keep the integrated mouse idea, but use a trackball mouse instead. Less cute tho

Awesome and informative video! Not gonna lie, I would rather go through the extra effort of designing a PCB and getting it fabricated than having to hand solder all those wires 😅

Nice

Fuck, i jad this exact idea a few months ago. Very cool

awesome

Respect

Why did you use resistance (this is a genuine question) this feels like the most difficult and least functional option you could choose. Also please use switch case statements my eyes were bleeding when I saw those if statements 😂😂😂you can do ranges with switch case statements like this I think switch (resistance){ case 100 … 200: print("a"); case 300 … 400: print("b"); default : break; Still very cool ngl

based project

This is super adorable! I can only imagine what things you will build as you grow up! Keep up the good work!

Where is the code?

now play fps with it

😍

Just to be honest, it's a terrible idea. You can just use QMK/ZMK/etc to do better mouse control with keys, including speed and any possible gesture, without leaving the home key zone. Also, the full benefits of split keyboards require tenting, which isn't compatible with this anachronistic mouse design. On the good side, it was probably a great learning exercise.

Who da heck wants half their f***ing keyboard to be a mouse when you move it. Do you know how much more exhausting that will be on you hand? Because it's hecka clear you don't.

Damn you are a genius in the skin of a child!

just use better software

Subbeedd

40% keyboard pcb would have made your life so much easier