Lotus-Keyboard VS miryoku

The normal version needs SK6812 mini leds, yours look like the mini-e variants. Mini-e has legs and is easier to solder but the pinout is different: https://github.com/TweetyDaBird/Lotus58/issues/10

One option by my design. https://github.com/TweetyDaBird/Lotus58

it's a https://github.com/TweetyDaBird/Lotus58 that I soldered and assembled with DSA keycaps from YMDK and some JWK knockoffs tactile switches

Decided I'd finally had enough of the Nordic ISO layout and figured "why not just jump in the deep end?" and bought parts to make myself a Lotus58 Glow. (https://github.com/TweetyDaBird/Lotus58)

https://github.com/TweetyDaBird/Lotus58 -- start here. apart from the links i've posted in my details comment, i don't have any other. feel free to dm me if you want any help though. :)

Not OP, but I have the repository open because I'm also building one of these. You can find everything at https://github.com/TweetyDaBird/Lotus58.

Is a capacitor required for each rotary encoder that we put? The Lotus58 build guide suggests so, but I haven't seen it mentioned in other places, included the Sofle RGB build guide itself.

It's open source and needs to be built by oneself. You can find everything necessary on tweetys github

u/tweetydabird sells some kits for his lotus58 over at his tindie shop

I've seen https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku but it doesn't appear to be easily modified.

A 75% keyboard still require quite a lot of wrist movement, which is not ideal in your situation. It's better to learn to use layers, you could still have all the function keys and such with a 36 or 34 keys. With with such a small keyboard you don't need to move your wrist while typing. A Corne or even a Ferris Sweep can do the job with a proper keymap, like Miryoku.

If you prefer to have semicolon on Base you'd substitute custom Base, Nav, and Sym layers, swapping semicolon and slash, with https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku/discussions/85.

The Miryoku layout [1] has a dedicated number layer which turns the left half into a number pad. Practical (once you get used to it) and portable.

[1] https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku

It's understandable if some people would prefer a larger layout. I wouldn't argue people should be using smaller keyboards.

It's "I don't mind moving my hand to hit the key" vs "I don't mind holding down some Fn key to hit the key". (Or with F1-F12 on Macbooks, you need to both hold down a Fn key and move your hand).

For an example of "36 keys ... how", I think the popular miryoku layout is fascinating. https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku/tree/master/docs/re... -- Often, mnemonics for particular keys aren't all that complicated.

Except for those who use Miryoku, which is not optimized for software development, probably every single person here will have its own custom keymap.

The keyboard on the other desk is a wireless Corne low profile kit I built up a while back using a couple nice!nano controllers and their low power display too. For general typing I don't have much of a problem going back and forth between the two, but the Corne is only 34 keys and I use a complex layout called Miryoku to get access to most symbols and functions I have by default on my 360.