类型: IC
作者: Schuerie
发布时间: 2020-08-04
09:13:03
更新时间: 2020-08-04 11:53:08
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=107905.0
異体同心 (itaidoushin)
Different Bodies, One Mind
Gallery:
https://imgur.com/a/XI9or52
Hello everyone! This is my first post on Geekhack,
but I’ve been a member of the keyboard community for almost
4 years now.
The DBOM is my dream board. I’ve played
with the thought of making it in some way or form for years
now and finally, here it is.
The Design
Three PCBs, south facing per-key RGB backlight, 5°
typing angle, sandwich mount, QMK firmware and a quite
unique layout.
The main reasons for making this layout
the way it is are entirely practical, in terms of use but
also design. It’s closest to a 75% with a numpad, but of
course not quite the conventional take.
Most
noticeably, the Home/End column, which would usually be on
the right on a 65/75%, sits on the left here, which offers a
couple benefits. Whenever using a mouse, most people will
rest their left hand on the keyboard. Moving keys towards
the left therefore effectively minimizes hand travel
distance. And even if you don’t find yourself using these
keys a lot, they’re of course fully configurable to fit your
needs.
The second benefit of this is symmetry. The left
and right center pieces are almost identical in width, with
the exception of the needed adjustments of a staggered
layout. This also helped the design process, as it allowed
for no more than a single LED driver per PCB (IS31FL3737,
the largest LED driver currently supported by QMK).
There
is a single trade off made for this. The arrow keys are not
arranged in a flipped-T position, but are all sitting next
to each other, in a VIM-style configuration of sorts. One
way to get around this is to remap the right shift as the up
arrow.
Three space bars, a 2.75u, a 1.25u and a 2u
(left to right). The intended use would be to have the 1.25u
set as a function key, which would again help greatly when
operating the keyboard with only the left hand.
The
final deviation from the standard layout is the split
HHKB-style backspace, which I don’t think needs much of an
explanation.
For the time being, this will be the only
layout supported.
Of course the pieces are freely
arrangeable, regular numpad on the right, southpaw style or
even in the middle, all possible. Every PCB will use a
dedicated unified daughterboard.
Going Forward
This is an IC in the early stages. The first revision
of this design is finished, but I have not gone into
prototyping yet. For now I’m looking to buy a couple PCBs to
drive down the individual price and sell off any leftovers,
given they do work as intended of course. This might change
depending on how many people express their interest here. I
can not yet give a conclusive take on how the manufacturing
of the case will be handled. Being a multi part design, I
expect it to not be cheap at all. This is again all coming
down to the community’s interest.
Also, I want this
board to be entirely EU made if it is in any way feasible,
preferably in Austria where I’m from, but I will of course
be trying to sell to anyone willing to buy anywhere.
If
this IC turns out great, I will get in contact with local
manufacturers.
Please fill out the IC form!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1H8kT8InmxzsmNoMvWlw-z_NWIMpbAVglVbyp6zvUph0/
And on a final note: Everything you see here was made
by me using open source software, namely KiCAD, FreeCAD and
Blender, all on Linux
Thank you for your attention and feedback, I highly
appreciate it.