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Keyboard nirvana & split comparison

A blog post by jhelvy, author of the split comparison tool, on his journey down the path of building keyboards.

KBD.news
Published July 10, 2021

In his blog post by the title "In search of keyboard nirvana" jhelvy tells us about his journey to find a more ergonomic (and useful) keyboard.

Reading this write-up I realized his split comparison tool wasn't yet featured in KBD. (No wonder since it was published in early 2020, 9 months before KBD.news was started.)

The tool is available here: https://jhelvy.shinyapps.io/splitkbcompare/

And it's open source: https://github.com/jhelvy/splitKbCompare

All the basic information about each board is stored in a simple CSV file, and the switch plate images are all hand-aligned in one Illustrator file then batch exported as PNGs. So all the alignment is already done, the app is just overlaying different images.

Published on Sat 10th Jul 2021. Featured in KBD #34 (source).

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