I built a keyboard for the Taipo layout - eviltoast

https://github.com/dlip/chouchou

Chouchou (Japanese for butterfly) is a minimalist unibody keyboard designed to be used with the Taipo layout.

It uses a cheap RP2040-Zero MCU and requires no diodes since the 20 edge pinouts it provides is the exact number of keys Taipo requires. It was created with Ergogen and KiCad.

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    1 year ago

    Cool thanks. Can you still rest your fingers on the board with 25 grams, without accidentally actuating? Or do you need to hover your fingers above the board? (and if so would 35g solve that?)

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      1 year ago

      With the 25g I can only rest about half the weight of my fingers on the keys without triggering something, but with the 35g I can rest the full weight comfortably. If I’m practicing a lot then I do notice my fingers get sore after a couple of hours on the 35g, but for normal use it’s probably fine.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks, that’s really helpful! I think 35g is probably good for my usage then. I’m not typing long paragraphs of text all day long.