Dreamboard
Started by: MalcolmKeMalcolmKe
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dream keyboard
Dreamboard
MalcolmKeMalcolmKe 1157457924|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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.

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Anonymous (82.92.143.x) 1158232371|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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.

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MalcolmKeMalcolmKe 1158665923|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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.

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MalcolmKeMalcolmKe 1165111566|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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

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pieterhpieterh 1167755383|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

MalcolmKe,

Thanks for submitting your very interesting designs.

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Anonymous (212.45.8.x) 1157930963|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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.

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MalcolmKeMalcolmKe 1158062244|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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

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junky_joejunky_joe 1159008291|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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.

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MalcolmKeMalcolmKe 1159091961|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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.

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Anonymous (213.135.140.x) 1159031748|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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!

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MalcolmKeMalcolmKe 1159092617|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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.

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neploxneplox 1159360177|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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

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MalcolmKeMalcolmKe 1159371378|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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

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real_night_elf
Anonymous (87.251.103.x) 1159363533|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

симпатичная клава но нуждается в доработке

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MalcolmKeMalcolmKe 1159371126|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks, can you give some detailed advice?

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ShaiShai 1161001211|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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

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MalcolmKeMalcolmKe 1161051074|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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

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