puppybox
Looks super cool :) how much did you pay for keycaps?
Looks super nice. Why did you decide on this design?
Buy very thin solder wire. I was struggling until I realized that the wire was too thick. I got thinner wire and everything went smooth.
But cheap practice board for soldered (few USD) and practice first (desolder and solder again after you finish).
If your iron don’t have temperature control, but something that has it. I paid around 10usd for mine.
Go with switches first, do controller later, it’s slightly more difficult
I saw this keyboard but still don’t understand - why hexagon?
Looks really nice. I like how compact it is. How are your wrists? Also, how the thumb cluster feels? Where did you buy all the parts?
I ordered a piantor few days ago. How was soldering? I really like the diodeless design, hopefully I will be able to build it (first time soldering). Also agree the column stagger looks nice. How does it feel?
Btw I’ve been working full time with Colemak dh for few years and it’s quite nice layout. But decided to switch recently and learned “canary” which is layout created in 2022. It’s slightly more optimized than Colemak. Maybe you can looker into it if you’re interested.
If your keyboard supports vial, you can setup tap dance through ui
Make an account on monkeytype and practice 1 hour a day. Look at the stats, you should improve in a week or two.
When I switched layout first time (qwerty -> Colemak dh) it took me 2-3 weeks to learn it. Recently I switched again (canary) and it took me around a week of practicing around 2h a day to go to 60wmp English 1k. Then I just started using it at work.
Now I’m switching to Piantor and it’s difficult even without switching layout.
I think you have to be patient and also keep track of your progress to motivate you.