Another prototype for LYNK. Stands for Low Yat Net Keyboard.

Yes, yes, no more Lyn Peh keyboard. Something that sounds cool and, well, sellable.

Really suggest that you go to Geekhack instead... you won't get much help here.

If you doing a GB for this then I'll join in.

Sharks! Entered wrong! Can you double my order for 2x stabs later?

Paid and paid

Yeah. Cheaper also got, but not by much. Roughly how much is the shipping back to Malaysia?

Some progress update on LYNK:

I've managed to get AutoCAD working, so the plate and acrylic case design isn't going to be an issue. Still need some help on PCB.

PM me if you have access to PCB prototyping (let's work out the costs) and we'll try to get things started

Thanks for the offer dude. Let's get this thing going on.


To the others; would really speed things along if you can tell me what you miss about 60% keyboards. We will be making a 60+ keys MKB layout, and skipping along several keys to make way for fn and pn layers. The end goal is to make a keyboard that people who came from full-sized keyboards feel comfortable using a smaller one with virtually no loss in functionality and speed.

Thank you all for the feedback. Previously thought to make something closer to that of a Lightsaver (compressed TKL) but now we have instead we have:

Short shift and 1x bottom row the only issue with this layout. The rest you can find from standard kits. A lot of retained buttons from the nav cluster because I do use it a lot personally and I guess some people would miss it after a while.

My other weird dream was to make an ergodox that can utilize an ANSI set, but I gave up after seeing how ugly and bulky the mess would end up being.

Backspace is a high impact + repetitively pressed key. Making it larger than most other keys was a conscious decision by myself so that users have a slightly larger footprint for depressing the key.

As for fn layer triggering pgup and pgdn, see the next reply.

The nav cluster was retained because I get 4x1 space on the right of the keyboard when I retained the arrow cluster. While I can cover it with the top plate later, I very much rather use up all the space available to me instead of leaving it empty.

Another design consideration is that I personally find myself using CTRL + the nav cluster buttons a lot to navigate quickly in excel and chrome, so pressing three buttons to activate an oft used shortcut seems overly unnecessary (also a design consideration at this point)

I use F1, F2 and F5 a lot. Probably won't design a custom without these keys.

Fn is a toggle key. Pn is a "lock" key, mainly used for numlock activation and pulling up the third layer.

This post has been edited by dadudeneverabides: Jul 21 2014, 10:31 PM

F1 just reach a little to the left. I personally use tilde to control hero, so I don't see any problems. If lolfags can use Poker, why can't Dotards?

Currently Meta key on the right can use for winkey. Can swap back, but that might make F6-F10 hard to press. Although this is one change I can agree with.

You adapt or you die. I try my best to retain the most of a full sized keyboard

Thanks! Please support when the time comes

Spacing the arrow keys would make the right side look weird. I tried to make the Leopold lookalike (Ins-Del), but it leaves out a lot of space wasted that can be used for other keys.

On the other hand, I've had the arrow keys right beside other keys on my ergodox, and I can assure you that although it looks compressed, the arrow keys are usually pressed several times in a row and not "quick-tapped" much, so it isn't usually confused with other keys. Not to mention that there is the gap with the longer mod keys before reaching the nav area, so it is quite comfortable to activate.

This works better, IMO, although we do go back to wasted space.

Please also note that this keyboard is fully programmable, so the keys I proposed here is just that; a proposal. It would be better if you look at the key layouts instead.

We do rapid prototyping actually... no PCB, just the layout on an acrylic plate, and move straight to usage. If it isn't too tedious to use.... maybe we will go ahead. But, currrently it is the V2 that's more likely to be produced because I'm big on re-using standard sized keycaps.

No la... LYNK still in prototype stage.

Ducky Shine series quality closer to Filco. Zero series a bit on the lower side, but quality still damn good. Just don't expect much from the keycaps. Mine started "shining" after two months of usage. Can't take it and swapped a PBT set. Never went back ever since.

Bought a set of PBT caps. The printing came off in about a month, then I splurged for DS PBTs. Then I switched over to blank DSAs, then I started using Filco already.

Honestly, you don't need bling bling. It will only slow you down.

Install a small table lamp. Your eyes will thank me in the long run. I game up to 3am daily (work starts at 8am!) but I have no problem. In the end, having top tier keycaps made more sense than backlight for me.

Filco hands down. Internally, both are quite similar, but when you type on Filco it feels better than typing on ducky.