fissure VS fusion

Ah it's tented automatically at ~21deg

I haven't actually posted to Reddit for a while (other than comments that is), and I thought I should. I've been daily driving these 2 boards for a bit, the Fissure v3.2 and the Fusion. Both boards are fully BLE, and of course following my tradition on using the embedded steno engine.

There have been a lot more progress in the last years, but when I started like 3 years ago, I basically looked through r/MK for 3 months or so, and imagined how the layouts would work (yes you can just print them out but), picked a balanced point between simplicity and extensibility, and designed my board. After that it's just constant iterations on both the hardware and the key map levels.

I don't see many high stagger 36 keys, so self plug time. brow/jklp counts, though that's a hand wire

Not strictly 3x6, but the Fissure v3 does everything else.

my preferred boards are smaller—I’ve got a Kyria that I like quite a bit and am currently dailying a Fissure—but the ergodox was the board that got me started on that route, and I actually just rehomed my ergodox ez to a friend wanting to try out a split board for work :D

Repo with outdated pics: https://github.com/crides/fissure

I'm also very skeptical, especially about the thickness. 22 mm for both halves, that's 11 mm per half. Know what else is 11 mm? Kailh choc v1 switches, top of the stem to bottom of the contacts. Not including keycaps and a bottom case. So either they're not using chocs, or they're clipping them. Either way, what is the hot swappability for? Not like you can get a variety of choc minis or the scissor switches, or expect end users to cut up their switches. The smallest keyboard I know is this: https://github.com/crides/fusion using choc minis for a 23 mm thickness when collapsed.

Yes they do... https://github.com/crides/fusion/

Horizontal spacing reduction is not worth, as long as it corresponds to your resting position it's fine (vertical for thumb); vertical spacing reduction is worth if you have skinny fingers like me, and especially helps to reduce the overall keyboard size. Been using a 13.5mm vertically spaced board for half a year, the stretch to reach keys is definitely nicer (especially for pinky), with little difference in speed

The best travel design I've seen lately is this one but it isn't truly split. Although being split might be a slight disadvantage for a travel board since you can't comfortably use it in your lap.

Depending on how small and custom you wanna go, but I put this in my pocket basically everyday

I haven't actually posted to Reddit for a while (other than comments that is), and I thought I should. I've been daily driving these 2 boards for a bit, the Fissure v3.2 and the Fusion. Both boards are fully BLE, and of course following my tradition on using the embedded steno engine.