Friday, February 14, 2014

FrogPad2 Keymap

The grid grows, Cyan takes over for symbols' Purple for 2nd Functions
 
The accent key is pretty retarded
switching USB Bluetooth Pairing seems to have cluttered things
Media Keys are here but somewhat unwelcome 

Dedicated F and Media Keys may not be programmable
Backspace & Delete got divergent duplicates not separated
The Shift and Space are no longer hooked under
The simple 20 Key design Philosophy has been thrown out the window
for all manner of proprietary corner-cutting

I want to remap the big modifers, the big keys like a big boy & it looks like that is not supported Also if the concept art looks nothing like the actual prototype, I have to ask why and assume corner cutting or changing on a whim

Where did all these extra keys come from? compromises were not made = groupthink

Frog design did a better job last time. If I can order black keycaps that illuminate the frog letters it would be more like the good old days of a primarily dark frog. As apple goes silver I suppose the market follows. ugh.

A PDF of Documentation & an updated reprogramming app really need to be ready before I'd buy one
Frogpad2 Design feels very-un-frog-like


Genovation 682 is a 35 Keypad with Cherry Blacks & it's bulky. Not quite Portable. The keys are more scalloped that the flat laptop style Logitech favors.

Does the whole keycap backlight? They seem to imply that it does

I wish that a backlit letter on a keycap was white on black Also, Kwanzaa key says : |

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Maltron TE-Deck Layout



Keys As Labeled (running a second layer remap)

The greyed out keys are toggled by the top right key, forming a second layer which provides compatibility for my wireless keypad remapping solution for wireless & easy MPC input

F13-F24 also contain the 12 tones of the musical scale as a system beep on key up- this allows notation entering with these legacy Terminal keys


Here is the Maltron Keyboard Layout, an optimized frequency-of use Key Layout that takes DVORAKone step further with spread vowels and 70% less finger key travel.

This layout optimization is also achievable on Kinesis Advantage™ reprogrammable keyboards, if one can live with staggered keys, on any Keytronic aka Gateway 2000 AnyKey™ keyboards. This implementation is for the Truly Erogonomic keyboard, Brown Cherry MX keyswitches or Blue for clicky feedback



Notice 5( 6) &7 @8 which is default on ACTUAL Maltron K88 Keyboards (later models went back to standard Qwerty Locations for symbols as well as reinstating the US =+ and -_ keys that are put as shifts of : and ; in the UK)  F13 F14 F15 F16 are used on the TrulyErgonomic because the flashable HW doesn't implement its own shift states, and to force a remap would preclude using my actual maltron keyboard which does the translations in firmware to for example make keys such as ?: \| <{ [[ !*[ !] >} /~ which combine two keys in the ISO ANSI JIS standards



Tuesday, December 17, 2013

BeeRaider? NO.


This is the most intolerable bad video idea for a keyboard but it looks like the Millenium Falcon's nosecone...

If you must, Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=douhAbs21wk
for Android tablets

Slice Keyboard


Slice Keyboard the keys bloom
too based on qwerty
for Android
Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVySd505dKc

Monday, December 16, 2013

ASETNIOP Layout

Checking out ASETNIOP - yet another keyboard layout
all other letters are 2 keys down, 3 or more keys for full short words



For 8 home keys and 2 thumbs
no finger movement required!
second thumb is any key on the 3rd row of letters for QWERTY emulation
use either QWER UIOP on 1st row or ASDF JKL; on 2nd row



both pinkies and index fingers (4 keys QRUP or AFJ;)
toggle the Number and Symbol Mode (stacked below)
left index enables right arrow keys

currently overlays QWERTY
also available tweaked for Dvorak and Colemak
also part of KeyRemap4MacBook by default















Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Monday, February 25, 2013