banime40 VS miryoku

Excellent taste. My keymap is my own homebrew layout that's suitable for casual use and programming, which I have humbly given the name of TypeBeastXDPlus Home Edition. The one in the top left is one of my first projects: the gasket mounted banime40

The switches are held with a middle plate that is sized to the mx switches and fits it in. You can see that here https://github.com/ChrisChrisLoLo/banime40/tree/master/case/stl . Click on the plate

The creator of the board has much better pictures than I do here: https://github.com/ChrisChrisLoLo/banime40

Wanted a 4x10 keyboard and stumbled upon the Banime40(https://github.com/ChrisChrisLoLo/banime40) made by u/sporewoh. I am used to having a keyboard that is basically just keys, switches and a PCB so I skipped 3D printing the case and this is the result.

the 40% is a banime40 an open sourced board https://github.com/ChrisChrisLoLo/banime40 . The creator had spare parts and i managed to snag components and a printed case from him. huge shoutouts to u/sporewoh , who has created a ton of designs, like his latest modular magnetic macropad was trending here.

I have a banime40 with this USB-C Pro Micro from keeb.io. I'm using QMK Toolbox 0.2.2. It connects, flashes, then disconnects

It’s free and open source here! https://github.com/ChrisChrisLoLo/banime40. I’m not planning to sell them as kits yet, though I may be able to in the foreseeable future. All updates with be open sourced though

I understand I would need to program it using KMK, but I just wanted to make sure I can use the Pi Pico as a replacement for the Pro Micro in the banime40, the board I want to order.

gotta download the entire repo in my experience, on the main page https://github.com/ChrisChrisLoLo/banime40 click the green code button and download zip

3D printed one I made! There's some details in my repository if you're interested

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.