The current Cybershard layout ★
This is the keyboard layout I’m using for my custom keyboard that I generated, printed, and hand-wired. It’s a minimalistic keyboard of 35 keys and features an integrated trackball on the right-hand side.
The keyboard layout started out as a direct copy of the T-34 keyboard layout, with some small modifications from the 34-key keyboard T-34 was designed for:
While the layout has diverged since then, the design philosophy from original T-34 post still holds true and I recommend it as it may explain why the layout looks like it does.
The layout could pretty easily be converted to a 32-key layout by removing the two extra keys and the inner thumb key on the left-hand side. These keys are barely used and the biggest reason I have them is that I don’t have the energy to rebuild the keyboard.
I made a bit of a detour and developed my own tool to generate the embedded svg images in this post as the existing tools didn’t exactly match my preferences.
