Finally, a keyboard I can connect my garden hose to!

Some more details:

• Choc switches (crystal reds)
• PBT keycaps from aliexpress
• Handwired (PCB possible, maybe...)
• Seeeduino XIAO SAMD21
• Built-in 15-degree tent angle
• Steel plate at bottom for weight and sound dampening, hopefully
• 4-pin microphone connectors to connect the halves
• 30-key layout inspired by Hummingbird

Excellent work! I’ve wanted to implement this feature in a future keyboard as well. The angle of pinky columns on Dactyl keyboards have always felt a bit weird to me since the row curvature achieves the exact opposite of this.

Actually, some of the later Maltron keyboards have angled columns like this.

yay, two pinky gang!

Personally I prefer still having 3 keys on the inner index column as I find it easier to hit inner column keys if they are part of one of the rows (and I only use the homerow pinky + don't like chords, so having 3 inner column keys per half is preferable to me).

Naming wise, you could always go for silly portmanteaus like "scoolp" (scoop + sculpted) or "scoob / scooboard" (scoop + keeb / keyboard) ;)

Awesome! The only other keyboard I've seen this on is the Ergowarp. I couldn't quite manage to tweak it properly, and I have so many nice-to-have requirements floating around in my head that I can't progress with a design. Well done!

The way the pinky row meets your pinky in the final picture is really satisfying. Its hard to tell using just the last picture, but I think your typing position has your fingers a bit more extended than mine and your typing, while still largely with the tips of your fingers, I'm even closer to the direct tips than you are with more finger curl while typing.

If I do the same smiley-face exercise, I only get the smiley-face if I don't bend my knuckles very far. As I curl my fingers in more towards either my knuckles or center of my hand, the smiley face disappears and even eventually inverts (though that inversion happens far past what would be comfortable for typing). The amount of curl I have for my normal typing is pretty neutral and doesn't really make the smiley face.

Great project. It is really nice to see other 30 key boards. I daily drive a Rommana today and would really like to try one of these. Are you planning to make this project open source?

It's an interesting design. I wonder if that could work with high profile MX switches and keycaps.

In Dactyls, the reason keys often face inward is as to keep key tops is close to each other as possible. Facing outward would obviously have the opposite effect, but with low profile keys it is less noticeable.

Now, there is one case you really want the keys closer, it is between 2 columns belonging to the same finger.

I'm not sure that I'd like a convex shape, but I love to see it. Nice work.

Really interesting! I'm not sure I'm willing to drop below 34, but this design makes me want to consider it.