You can build / pay someone to build a Dactyl manuform with hot swap sockets. It will look very different from the glove80 but the key positions can be similar with some parameter tuning. That being said, I'm unconvinced that any of the concave key wells will be correct for most people's hands and therefore, they should always be customized. My glove 80 feels like where I started with my manuform (the default parameters) while my current manuform feels much more natural.
Any tips for somebody thinking of printing a manuform dactyl?
Kailh choc's actuation point is only 1.3mm, which is really close to Cherry MX Speed's (1.2mm).
Of course the two categories concern very different switches, but isn't this the main trait of speed switches (compared to other MX switches) ?
yup, speeds are just reds that trigger earlier basically ^^
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