Forked version of Generator for Dactyl & Dactyl Manuform Keyboards

This is a fork of the ibnuba fork of the tshort fork of the Dactyl, a parameterized, split-hand, concave, columnar, ergonomic keyboard.

If you want to read the old ibnuba README.md, go here.

If you want to read the old old tshort README.md, go here.

Goals

1. Improve strength of kailh hotswap holder
2. Add Support for glueing LED strips to provide per-key LED RGB backlighting
3. Tweak row, and column curvatures for smaller hands.

Development

To tinker around follow these "old" steps:

1. Install JDK and leiningen.
2. Change directory to this repository.
3. Edit and save something in src/dactyl_keyboard/common.clj etc..
4. Run lein repl.
5. Run (load-file "src/dactyl_keyboard/common.clj") (load-file "src/dactyl_keyboard/manuform.clj")
6. Open / wait for SCAD files to update.
7. Render in SCAD
8. Export to STL
9. Slice STL file using 3d printer software.
10. print and assemble your keyboard!

Here is a preview of the keyboard in a 3d printer slicing software (IdeaMaker).

Updated Wiring Diagram

Timelapse Video

License

Copyright © 2015-2020 Matthew Adereth, Tom Short, Ibnu D. Aji, Derek Nheiley et. al.

The source code for generating the models (everything excluding the things/ and resources/ directories is distributed under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3. The generated models and PCB designs are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License Version 3.0.