Keyboards

Topics to understand

1. Actuation Force (centi Newton)
2. Linear, Tactile, Clicky
3. PBT / Double Shot PBT Switches
4. Gateron, Cherry MX
5. QMK/VIA
6. backlight / RGB backlight / types of backlight
7. keyboard percentages - 75% , 80% , 60%
8. soundboard / foam
9. Key Types : Fixed / Hot swappable
10. Keyboard Profile: available options (OEM, Cherry, SA)
11. Gasket mount / silicone acoustic pad
12. Key caps: OSA PBT

Keyboard Mods

• Karabiner-elements
• kmonad
• keyboard maestro

Support for QMK keyboards and their setup

Keyboards (That I like)

• Keychron V10 Max (Alice Layout)
• Keychron Q10 Max (Alice Layout)- a costlier version of v10 max because of metal body

Keyboard Companies

• https://www.zsa.io/
• https://www.keychron.com/
• https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/advantage360/
• naya.tech
• dygma.com
• https://taikohub.com/

Information Consumed

• https://precondition.github.io/home-row-mods#gacs
• Dreams of Code - V10 Max Review

Resources

• https://www.keyboard.university - a very neatly compiled resources for learning all things related to keyboard. I ❤️ the people who made this.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/ -
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/
• https://ryanis.cool/cosmos/ - a website to build custom keyboards personalized for my hand
• https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards - list of already built split keyboard templates
• https://splitkb.com/
• https://awesomeopensource.com/project/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards
• https://jhelvy.shinyapps.io/splitkbcompare/
• https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/
• BLOG SERIES - https://josef-adamcik.cz/electronics/in-search-of-the-best-custom-keyboard-layout.html

Convert image to qmk style for display - https://joric.github.io/qle/