Thanks! Yeah, I prefer it as well. It’s >100mm² so no special pricing. But it allows for my preferred thumb cluster and has better MCU placement (it’s tricky to unsocket the MCU in v0.0.1).

Love the blue and white zilpzalp. Also, is that totem case a resin print?

Oh my mistake. Yeah, that print looks cleannn. Great work :)

Looks great! How do you find guix as an OS overall?

I’ll have to give it a try. There are ways to get non-free software on guix? Is it just not officially part of the distro?

I’ve been reading some more and I definitely want to give guix a spin. I guess that’s the advantage of nix as a tool: you can always install alongside your distro’s package manager if desired.

I like the tactile home row idea. What are the keycaps?

Cleannn!

Soldering is a skill you can absolutely pick up quickly. Grab a cheap kit from Amazon (or a pinecil), watch a couple YouTube videos, and practice on a spare PCB (can get actual soldering practice board for quite cheap).

So in a nutshell it’s multiple players creating multiple bases?