The Fulcrum is a wireless ergonomic keyboard that features 5-way switch joysticks, which are mounted horizontally to take advantage your thumb's natur

GitHub - dschil138/Fulcrum: The Fulcrum Keyboard is an ergo-mechanical split keyboard with extra thumb functionality. It has 20 keys, two rotary encoders, and two 5-way switches.

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The Fulcrum is a wireless ergonomic keyboard that features 5-way switch joysticks, which are mounted horizontally to take advantage your thumb's natural range of motion.

There are currently two versions of the Fulcrum: the 20-key version pictured here, and a 40-key version pictured farther below. (These key counts do not include the 5-way switches.)

Our thumbs are criminally underutilized on regular keyboards. Your two most capable fingers, both regulated to just one key - the space bar.

Many ergonomic keyboards try to rectify this problem by giving each thumb several keys. This is an improvement, but most people quickly find that it is actually quite difficult for your thumb to stretch over multiple keys and hit something accurately, let alone comfortably. More inefficency!

So what's going on with our phones? Look at how well we use our thumbs to type there. On a smartphone, our thumbs are fast, accurate, and dexterous. Incredibly efficient. What's the disconnect? Why are they so nimble over there, and so lumbering and inaccurate on our keyboards?

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