Hi, I hope it’s okay to ask for recommendations on this sub, if not please just delete my post, or lock it down.

So back to the topic, I came here to ask if anyone could recommend me keyboard. I’m a software dev working 100% from home, therefore the keyboard I’m looking for is mainly used for work related stuff. Outside of work I’ll also mainly do browsing, some office stuff and a bit of leisure coding. Gaming is (sadly) nothing I’m doing anymore beside maybe the single day once a year were I’m playing a few hours of factorio or something alike.

Currently I’m mainly using a Logitech MX Keys since my girlfriend got stressed by the sound of my beloved Corsair K70 with blue clicky switches. Since she’s not working from home anymore I’m able to go back to a mechanical keyboard. I would like to switch to one of those fancy split keyboard things since their ergonomics actually seems to be way better then the one of a classical keyboard. I’d also like it to be wireless since I reorganized my desk and actually managed to get a nice cable free desk. Thing is, when I was looking around I found some wireless ergonomic keyboards but most of them were no real split keyboards and almost all of them had rubber domes and no mechanical switches. The mechanical ones I found were all cabled bound and for some reason also incredibly expansive. E.g. I’d really liked the Moonlander thing but it’s already at close to 400 euros, I also liked the ultimate hacking keyboard even more, since one is able to attach a small trackball to it but it’s also cable bound and incl. vat and shipping to Germany it’s above 600 euros…

So to sum it up, I’d be really thankful if anyone of you has some suggestion for a nice mechanical wireless split keyboard.

Thanks

  • kukkurovaca
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    1 year ago

    Most ergo split boards are DIY builds. They’re cheap, but they require you to do a fair bit of soldering. (Usually including diodes and controllers.)

    Many ergo boards are built around the pro micro pinout, and this means that they can generally be made into wireless builds using nice!nano controllers, batteries, and ZMK firmware.

    Theoretically any pro micro based board can be made wireless like this, but the experience will be a bit better if the PCB supports battery on/off switches. This is especially true if you ever need to transport the board, because ZMK has no way to turn the board off electronically or put it into a soft lockout mode.

    I really like the Kyria, personally, but ergo board layout preferences are very personal. You can compare layouts here: https://compare.splitkb.com/

    • ture@rational-racoon.deOP
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      1 year ago

      Actually I didn’t consider soldering it myself since I just assumed all those kit things aren’t wireless. It has been a few years since I soldered something but I’m confident I would be able to get a keyboard done. Would actually be really nice to have a self soldered keyboard, the IKEA effect is usually strong on me. Anyway, thank you so much for the link, I bookmarked it and will check it out in the morning and see if there is some layout appealing to me.