• DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    What does the Ortho moniker actually mean? ( Yes I am embarrassed I don’t know). This looks extra cool to me because I am terrible at soldering, and would like to improve. Can you post some pics of your switch recepticle solders?

    • plm00@lemmy.ml
      13·
      2 days ago

      Ortho linear means all the keys are arranged vertically and straight, with no key offset like you’d find in regular keyboards. The idea is you can type faster (after getting used to it), and offset keys are no longer necessary since we don’t use typewriters anymore.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        Just to expand a little,

        ortho-, as a prefix, means:

        Right angle, perpendicular.

        As in orthogonal, or orthographic.

        Or sometimes just “straight”, or “corrective”(?), like in “orthodontist” or “orthopedic”, I suppose.

    • frunch@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      What kind of iron are you working with? What kind of solder are you using? Those 2 things alone can make a big difference. Practice is necessary too, of course–but if you’re trying to work with inferior equipment and/or solder, it may be harder than it should be…

        • frunch@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          Ooh, i see. Unfortunately i don’t have any experience soldering these…just pcbs, wires, etc. Hopefully someone else here can help out!

    • Alex@social.voklen.comOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      @Reverendender @mechanicalkeyboards Funnily enough, I haven’t got round to soldering in the mill-max sockets I’m using yet. I put them in the PCB and they’re a tight enough fit that all the keys work purely through the contact the socket makes with the PCB. When I get it soldered I’ll send a photo though.

  • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    I always wonder, what is the purpose of two space bars? It looks amazing BTW the keycaps a beautiful.

    • Alex@social.voklen.comOP
      1·
      1 day ago

      Well originally I intended to bind the left spacebar to space and the right spacebar to escape for when I’m using Helix editor (similar keybindings to Vim) to make escape faster to press. But I’ve found having the escape key in the first column second row beside my pinky to be very comfortable, so right now I have both of the keys set to space. But I am still editing what keys are where so this may well change.
      I’m glad you like the keycaps by the way, I’m very happy with how they turned out.

      • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        Thanks for the explanation, what are your thoughts of an otholinear keyboard does it feel more ergonomic that a traditional layout?

        • Alex@social.voklen.comOP
          1·
          4 hours ago

          I’m enjoying it so far, I’ve had to adjust a few cases where I was using the wrong finger for a key and had to fix that when switching to this keyboard. My typing speed has improved but that may just be the lighter switches. As for any ergonomic benefit, this smaller board is more comfortable to type on and I feel like the ortholinear layout makes it better as well but that second one could be placebo. Also I just enjoy typing on this keyboard more which certainly helps.