Dreamboard

Re: Dreamboard

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:29:43 +0000

MalcolmKe,

Thanks for submitting your very interesting designs.

Re: Dreamboard

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:06:06 +0000

Latest design: http://diyism.com/?action=hardware.keyboard

Re: Dreamboard

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:11:14 +0000

You are right to some degree. But in fact, i designed dreamboard at 2006-3-7 00:07, found DataDesk
Smartboard at 2006-5-1 15:39, found NEC PK-KB015 at 2006-10-14 01:00, look at:
http://post.baidu.com/f?kz=87076705

Re: Dreamboard

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:20:11 +0000

Dreamboard is an hybrid of the NEC PK-KB015 and the DataDesk Smartboard keyboards.

Re: Dreamboard

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:36:18 +0000

Just for backward compatibility.
只是为了向后兼容.

Re: real_night_elf

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:32:06 +0000

Thanks, can you give some detailed advice?

real_night_elf

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:25:33 +0000

симпатичная клава но нуждается в доработке

Re: Dreamboard

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:29:37 +0000

Млин - а че кнопку капс лока-то оставил? Чудо

Re: Dreamboard

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:10:17 +0000

Enter key is already enough big, maybe shift key can be bigger.

The Caps key is at the left side opposite to the insert key at the right side.

Re: Dreamboard

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:59:21 +0000

Put F11 on left just for aligning f1…f10 with 1…0, maybe you can bring out better designs for this purpose?

Generally, we needn't use shift+home and shift+end simultaneity.
You can control the "Arrows" button with your left thumb while the right-shift key pressed by right little finger.

Re: Dreamboard

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:15:48 +0000

These disigns are awful! And I have a few like them at my work - nobody can type on them! Seems like poeple wold press everything instead of Enter and Shift ('cause these buttons are VERY small and not usable at all). And where is Caps??? :) It's really one of the most useful keys on the keyboard!

Re: Dreamboard

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:44:51 +0000

The F11 on the left seems very weird.

Not all the navigation keys are on the same hand. Which would make it very unusuable if you need to hold Shift and move with the arrow keys/PgUp/PgDn/Home/End in orde rto select things.

Re: Dreamboard

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:38:43 +0000

I'm a programmer, so i need a keyboard for long-time working, but most of keyboards including some
ergonomic keyboards are hurting my left hand fingers because of the stupid design on the left side of
the keyboards.

Re: Dreamboard

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:12:51 +0000

For european standard, and especially code-goats like me, this will be ideal for me. Normally I won't code with ten fingers becuase of the special characters I need to use all of the time. If there suitted in the middle of the board that would make the keys more accessable with the use of the pointing finger (huh, is that english?). An extra enhancement would be to have ' " [ ] { } \ / > < on priority places without shift.

Re: Dreamboard

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:57:24 +0000

Maybe we can put "ю","щ","ъ" onto "<,",">,","?/", keep "ж","ё","э" on ""'","~`","|\".

Re: Dreamboard

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:29:23 +0000

That seems to be a nice idea, but you forgot one thing. Remember, there are many different layouts besides U.S. English. Russian typewriter layout, for example, needs more letters and is actually wider than your keyboard design. You put [];',. between left and right halves of the keyboard, and that's fine since they are special character keys. But on the Russian layout there resides letters (ha, hard sign, zhe, e, be, yu), and it will be utterly inconvenient for users to get accustomed to the repositioned letters I listed above. Please consider this.

Dreamboard

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:05:24 +0000

URL(s) to keyboard layout image(s):
dream version: http://diyism.com/!misc/keyboard_dream.gif
mini version: http://diyism.com/!misc/keyboard.gif
standard version: http://diyism.com/hardware/!keyboard/keyboard_multi.gif

Single sentence description:
dream keyboard

Full description:
Ergonomic keyboards are not enough good, so i design these.