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Daktil Keyboard
Daktil is a fork of the Dactyl, a parameterized, split-hand, concave, columnar, ergonomic keyboard. A number of them were built at Ljudmila, at the PIFlab workshop.
There's a very interesting talk about the motivation and design of the original Dactyl by Matt Addereth, its creator:
Differences from the original design
The generated model has not changed, but we used an Arudino ProMicro instead of a Teensy Arduino controller. We also did the wiring in columns instead of rows and connected the left and right parts with a spiral telephone cord with 4P4C connectors/cords.
We built some original Dactyls and some Dactyl Manuforms.
Assembly
Parts / materials
- Cherry MX switches
- Arduino Pro Micro (you can / we did / use a clone)
- IO expander (MCP23008)
- 3d print material
- 1N41 diodes (1 for each key / approx. 60)
- two 2,2 kΩ resistors
- two 4P4C telephone jacks and a spiral cord
- enameled wire
Generating a Design
Setting up the Clojure environment
Generating the design
- Run `lein repl`
- Load the file `(load-file "src/dactyl_keyboard/dactyl.clj")`
- This will regenerate the `things/*.scad` files
- Use OpenSCAD to open a `.scad` file.
- Make changes to design, repeat `load-file`, OpenSCAD will watch for changes and rerender.
- When done, use OpenSCAD to export STL files
Tips
Tips
Printing
Wiring
TODO
Firmware setup
TODO
Original documentation
You can find scans of original documents we used in the doc folder.
License
Copyright © 2015 Matthew Adereth
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-ShareAlike License Version 4.0.