Extremely cool!
Another commenter mentioned[0] that often ergonomic keyboards aren't columnar, but staggered. What if for the pin layout, instead of this:
1 1 0 0
It was this?
1 0 1 0
Then the keys could connect with at least two wires in either columnar
or 50% stagger, using the same pins. Each key has a maximum of six neighbors instead of four, but that shouldn't be too much trouble.
Naturally if you expand to 6 pins it could support 0/33/66% stagger positions.
More cool, I think, is that it doesn't have to be aligned? You could imagine shifting the pins and mechanism over from top to bottom, so it's a 20%/70% stagger. Maybe that would make it structurally stronger, like how bricks are overlapped?
Very inspiring project, thanks for sharing.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240718
Another commenter mentioned[0] that often ergonomic keyboards aren't columnar, but staggered. What if for the pin layout, instead of this:
It was this? Then the keys could connect with at least two wires in either columnar or 50% stagger, using the same pins. Each key has a maximum of six neighbors instead of four, but that shouldn't be too much trouble.Naturally if you expand to 6 pins it could support 0/33/66% stagger positions.
More cool, I think, is that it doesn't have to be aligned? You could imagine shifting the pins and mechanism over from top to bottom, so it's a 20%/70% stagger. Maybe that would make it structurally stronger, like how bricks are overlapped?
Very inspiring project, thanks for sharing.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240718