dactyl-manuform VS zmk-config

I ask $60 for a set with the necessary cables and RP2040 MCUs. I can ship to australia but it would likely be fairly expensive though. The PCBs are also designed to be used with my own fork of the dactyl, here.

I can't speak for OP but IIRC the Carbonfet repo has a configurable file that lets you select for the alternative thumb cluster layout. I like it a lot more than the default Dactyl Manuform cluster. It's easier to access with your thumb with less stretching.

Yeah I generated them with the help of Carbonfet github repo I can upload my version later. The right hand I used full support. The left I cut it in half and printed it in two pieces and glued it. This was way better and used minimal supports.

It looks like you printed an STL that included nubs, but your switches don't support nubs. Those switches are supposed to be either North or South facing. See the first bullet point under "Features" from this link: https://github.com/carbonfet/dactyl-manuform

I used the 5x7 fork from carbonfet for a while and really liked the thumbcluster of it. I currently use a 3x5+3 layout because I realized that I don't use a lot of the keys after integrating layers into my keymap and now I use a layout based on miryoku.

I don't know if it would fit the case you've assumedly already printed, but my fork with those holders is here.

It seems like your questions was already answered in another thread, but it's my own thumb cluster, the fork itself is here. There are some slight differences between what's on my fork and these boards I have up for sale (mostly just changes to the MCU holder to accommodate the PCBs I use).

This is the link to carbonfet's fork: https://github.com/carbonfet/dactyl-manuform

I want my keyboard to be as comfortable as possible because I got some bad RSI. I figured I would use this fork, because it has special mounts for a pro micro, an option to have the 7th column with 1u keycaps, and it should also work with kailh switches. I can already compile it and open it in openscad

Go with the Carbonfet-Dactly, not the original, as it has a different thumb cluster arrangement. In the original only three to four buttons of the six are easily reachable, which is a bit annoying. Reconfiguring some of the 1.25u keys to be 1u can make it a bit easier to find keycaps.

I‘ve mained various 30 key boards for over a year now. I find it to be the optimal size to have all keys within easy reach, but without too much combo/layer jumping. You can see my config here: https://github.com/jcmkk3/zmk-config

No analyzer can really model these things at this point, but I think that you can feel when things are bad. I don't use colemak, but feel free to look at my config/layout. https://github.com/jcmkk3/zmk-config

I feel like any programmable keyboard should be able to be configured to work well with emacs. I personally like having very few keys so that my hands need to move less when typing/navigating. Because I use powerful firmware (ZMK), I still have access to all of the keys that I need. You can take a look at how I configure my keyboard (along with some of my keyboards) here: https://github.com/jcmkk3/zmk-config