My first ever bulid and I’m so excited! It’s not trivial to build a perfect keyboard just from parts you can order in Europe. This is one doesn’t look exactly how I imagined it but I love it anyway. If anyone is interested - it’s a Sofle Choc V3 kit from 42. Keebs.

The first few days were a bit hard but after just a week of using it I was able to beat my monkeytype high score. I’m still not really fluid in using it for programming and vim in general though.

  • dnzm
    6•11 months ago

    Muscle memory needs some time, especially for symbol stuff. Don’t hesitate to tweak your mappings, I’ve made some changes at some point which made things a whole lot more workable. I started with Miryoku which was completely unsuitable for the PHP work I was doing back then, to mention something, and moving the number cluster to the right hand rather than left did miracles for my day to day work as well.

  • @[email protected]
    5•11 months ago

    Such a shame you dropped your keyboard and it broke in half!

    Perhaps Santa could get you another one for Xmas?

  • @SwallowsNest
    5•11 months ago

    Last year i bought the Sofle V2 kit from 42 keebs. It’s a beautiful kit, and the service was great. It felt strange to find someone so well served based in europe. I’ll surely buy again from them!

  • @[email protected]
    4•11 months ago

    I’ve also ordered a sofle choc v3 and started to use it, but I didn’t soldered the led or the screens yet. I’m also happy with my keyboard and the delivery was done properly !

    As a minor point I’m not sure if the sources for the keyboard have been published yet (the fork in the repo haven’t been updated since a lot of time, and I didn’t found a v3 branch). This is not a problem for me but can be if you have foss vibes.

    I’ve also removed the bottom plate because it make the keyboard sound… oddly when you press a key. I have to make some tests with plasstics screws instead of the metal ones given in the kit.

    Otherwise, I’m very happy with the keyboard, comming from a typematrix I’ve been able to use it as soon it was flashed !