hillside VS torn

Only two thumb keys seems like it could be a pain. I don't love trying to figure out the timing delays for tap vs hold. After a long search I settled on the Hillside 46 [1][2] which has 4 thumb keys and a splayed layout. Also choc spacing, as I didn't love the gaps between choc keycaps with mx spacing. Not sure why, as the macbook pro keyboard doesn't seem to give me any problems.

I like the all the case options and mods available to the ZSA keyboards. The biggest problem with building your own I feel is the cost of getting a nice, solid feeling case.

[1] https://github.com/mmccoyd/hillside/tree/main/hillside46

There are a few things that are close: * The Cantor/Piantor: more aggressive stagger and slightly changed thumb cluster. * The Swept Corne: essentially a big sweep. * The Hillside 46/48: This comes in many forms which are very similar to what you are looking for. Essentially an extra aggressive stagger (and perhaps splayed) Corne with a bigger thumb cluster.

I don’t have personal experience no. If you want to compare, here is a image of the key location: https://github.com/mmccoyd/hillside/blob/main/hillside46/doc/image/hill46_keys.png others exist for the other sizes in similar places. You can print this out, making sure you size so that the keys are properly spaced, and then compare that way

hillside

the first thing that pops into my head is something like the Hillside 52/56?

I'd recommend a Hillside. If you're not into the splay, there's the 48 and the 56. https://github.com/mmccoyd/hillside

Hillside ? https://github.com/mmccoyd/hillside

There are other benefits: A PCB design can be shared so that others can fabricate it themselves. (Or modify it if they wish). A PCB design will likely have a schematic, too, which can be studied.

I'd also bet that PCB projects are more likely to inspire better PCB projects. -- Or at least, the domain I've tried my hand at has been PCBs for custom mechanical keyboards.

e.g. I've seen boards inspired by https://github.com/hsgw/plaid such as https://github.com/coseyfannitutti/discipline or https://github.com/rtitmuss/torn and I think there are several popular split keyboard designs which basically descend from https://github.com/MakotoKurauchi/helix

Torn

I'm going to build the Torn ergo split keyboard but I don't need x5 PCBs, switch plates, and base plates. So I'm checking to see if others are interested in splitting the cost of the JLCPCB order. For clarity, I'm not looking to profit from this, just split the cost of the PCBs.

https://github.com/rtitmuss/torn Seems to be all freely available including a build guide

I would like to compare it to Torn

For a true match, the keyboard should be a Torn

Also very much interested in this. I'm thinking about building a split keyboard myself and can't decide on which one to go for. I've considered so far: - redox: The layout looks thought through - sofle: Easy to build, because of the used microcontroller - torn: Is throughhole, huge plus for me since I could order pcb's and solder it myself, also looks good. the only thing I don't like about it, is that I need a number row and am not sure if I'll be able to add it to the schematic

The torn is the closest https://github.com/rtitmuss/torn

I also have an ergodox ez, and want a smaller keyboard for carrying it to the office and on travels. I'll go for Torn (https://github.com/rtitmuss/torn) eventually, it will be available on splitkb.com Regarding tenting, it does have a slot to screw in a tripod like https://splitkb.com/products/manfrotto-pocket-tripod