Basically title.
Because I live in Paris, it would be nice to buy batteries in store. The most promising model I found is a 180mAh 32x17x4mm lipo.
I could also theoretically use one of these li-ion cylindrical batteries, but they are longer than the keyboard’s size (which is 77mm).
Here’s what I already tried:
- removing the inner thumb key, which makes the keyboard 34-key and leaves enough space for the battery mentioned above. Though after a few hours of using home row mods on my current keyboard I don’t think that will be a good solution.
- moving the MCU (Seeed XIAO BLE) to the right, which makes the board 2cm wider (and doesn’t look very good since I have no keys there). This one isn’t very elegant, plus I don’t really want to make the board wider, and I’d like to avoid it even though it is a solution.
Please ignore the mounting holes and TRRS jacks, I am still unsure about whether or not I want to just ditch bluetooth and make this board wired (which works with kmk)
The ergogen config is available on the github repo.
A printed case with about 30 degrees of tenting would provide a good bit of space under one side of the board. I did that with a Sofle RGB so I could fit a full PlayStation controller battery under it.
Yeah, at first it seemed quite alright to do with a smaller angle (from 3 to 6 degrees depending on the battery), but now I think it would make the board too complicated. Right now I am trying to get used to sticky mod keys on home row combos (colemak A+S for LGUI, N+I for LCTL) and it seems like I’ll be able to remove the inner thumb key in the end.