tractyl-manuform-keyboard VS compactyl

This keyboard is an attempt to make a best-of-both-worlds combination between the modular (and support-saving) design of dereknheiley's compactyl manuform (with adjustable wrist rest mounts) and the trackball-enabled design of the noahprince22's tracktyl manuform, forking the firmware from Schievel1's dactyl_manuform_r_track.

https://github.com/noahprince22/tractyl-manuform-keyboard There are links for everything here, but if you plan to make it wireless I think there are other sensors which consume less battery power

The tractyl manuform from noahprince22 outputs a model with a test hand with the finger length input from base to knuckle to knuckle to tip. I've found it gives a pretty decent first impression of the alignment of the dactyl in your hand. To get it just you do need some iterations with a test model

https://github.com/noahprince22/tractyl-manuform-keyboard this one does, its quite different from a lot of other manuforms, so it might be worth just using the code that generates the slots for the daily sockets and adding to a variant you like

Tractyl Manuform

So, I followed this guide to build my next keyboard. The only difference between mine and this one is that I added an encoder to the right side, and I used 2 Elite-c instead of 2 Pro Micro.

I wrote a build guide for mine here https://github.com/noahprince22/tractyl-manuform-keyboard. Basically just some ball bearings. It's less frictiony than the Logitech trackball I tested in best buy.

As they said, not by dometyl, rather Derek's separate plate Compactyl.

This keyboard is an attempt to make a best-of-both-worlds combination between the modular (and support-saving) design of dereknheiley's compactyl manuform (with adjustable wrist rest mounts) and the trackball-enabled design of the noahprince22's tracktyl manuform, forking the firmware from Schievel1's dactyl_manuform_r_track.

A couple of minor changes i might make for 5.1, but STLs available at https://github.com/dereknheiley/compactyl if you'd like to build it asap.

The spacing depends a lot of the configuration, for example some iterations of Derek's compactyl made for SA caps have had very close edge to edge key spacing. Also centre to centre key spacing on key wells is easy to get tighter than Choc spacing, so even if you've configured with a little more gap for whatever your keycaps are compared to mbk, a press between them is going to be less off-centre than it would be for chocs (which also perform worse with off centre presses than mx).

The v4 STLs should be in the repo, that's what's pictured above. I rarely go back and change old STLs unless there's a glaring issue. https://github.com/dereknheiley/compactyl/tree/master/things/compactyl-v4.0-5x6-hotswap

I've modified dereks compactyl to remove the last row and get a regular 3x5, but I'm assuming you'll want to have the DM thumb cluster with 5 buttons rather than the compactyl one with 3, right?

Dereks compactyl repo also provides an adjustable way to position crystalhands palm rest.

additionally there are several on github, mine is like https://github.com/dereknheiley/dactyl-manuform-tight but there are at least three others i can’t find from my phone