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Ergonomic, split and other weird keyboards

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Yeah, it's a lot, isn't it?

This is the most feature-rich build I've done yet at Wylderbuilds.

It's a... (big breath in)... Full 6x7 Dactyl Manuform printed in translucent blue PLA with full hot-swap support, dual trackballs, dual OLED screens, dual rotary encoders, underglow RGB, running QMK... wheeze... with Vial support... gasp... on Pi Pico controllers!

It's not for jotting down grocery lists.

Well, unless it's the grocery list of the gods.

In other news, our back-to-school sale is still on. Get 10% off all orders of $50 or more with code ERGONOMICS-101. Sale ends on August 31st, so act... Well, that's like over two weeks away, so you've got time.

But feel free to browse!

Full Builds

PLA Case Prints

Resin Case Prints

DIY Build Kit

Cheers!

Andy @ Wylderbuilds

PS. The switches shown are my test switches used during builds. They're not included in the build as it's fully hot swap capable, so customers can use any switches they like. The switches on the left are Kailh Speed Copper and on the right they're Kailh Purple Pros. I didn't have enough of either for the whole, vast keyboard.

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[–] zaidka@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Curious why would I want two trackballs?

[–] cazsiel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

For masturbating ambidextrously

[–] benlubas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Serious answer: one for tracking, one for scrolling or zooming or rotating in blender/cad software.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Because you use each half to run a different computer.

[–] iZRBQEcWVXNdnPtTV@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I like alternating hands to use my trackball

[–] Skree@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Jumping in here to say I've worked with Wylder for quite some time now. He's quick witted and really knows his stuff!

[–] btobolaski@threads.ruin.io 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious if you'd be willing to share the generator and qmk config. I've been wanting to rebuild my Dactyl with screens and a rotary controller + trackball on the right. I'm pretty set on building it myself as I've basically customized all of the parameters to better fit my hands and I'd likely need to print a bunch of cases to tune them for the modifications. That being said, I'd much rather just pay you to build it.

[–] wylderbuilds@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Of course!

I maintain a python-based generator here:

https://github.com/bullwinkle3000/dactyl-keyboard

It can be a PITA to get working to generate STL and STEP files with the cadquery engine. If you have issues, just reach out to me.

And I also have a fork of Vial-QMK here:

https://github.com/bullwinkle3000/vial-qmk

The specific setup for this build is this subdirectory:

https://github.com/bullwinkle3000/vial-qmk/tree/wylderbuilds/keyboards/handwired/wylderbuilds/trackball/6x7_full_dual_track

[–] Alienmonkey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

🔥🔥🔥🥵❤️‍🔥

[–] DARbarian@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy mother of god it's gorgeous. Not sure it gets anymore endgame than that. How much would a piece of art like that cost me?

[–] wylderbuilds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, yeah, it is pricey. With all those bells and whistles, it's around $675 prior to the 10% sale discount..