Ergonomics

After a few weeks of working on the Ergodox, I’ve finally found what I believe is an ideal layout. But that’s for me. You’ll be different. You’ll think of things differently. You’ll have different needs. You’ll hate where my spacebar is, or my curly braces… and that’s exactly what the Ergodox is for. It’s not only ergonomic in the sense that you do not strain your fingers to reach keys around them, but it is also ergonomic in the sense that you can place keys where they make sense. You could literally come up with your own keyboard format–though I certainly wouldn’t suggest it. ...

Back in August, I ordered an Ergodox from MassDrop - Cherry MX Blues, an aluminium top plate, and hardware programmable keyboarding was in my future. It took a long time for it to get here. Plagued by problems in their supplychain, MassDrop finally got all the pieces together around December, and shipped them off to be assembled for those of us who didn’t want to try their hand at sauldering. It finally showed up on my doorstep last week–though I was so excited that I met the UPS guy in my driveway. ...