Hey all,
Some of you have seen me post here before. For those who haven’t, I’m David, I’m a Canadian primary care doctor, worked in chronic pain, and I built a split ergonomic keyboard. It’s called the TAIKO-01 and it launches on Kickstarter on Tuesday (June 2).
For those who do know about this, yes it’s finally actually happening 😭. Appreciate everyone who stuck around.
The TL;DR is 5 years ago I got carpal tunnel and wrist tendinosis, built one for myself, serendipitously ended up selling dactyl-like variations to a lot of people over the years, took the feedback I got then created this based off it, quit my job to work on this, found out the hard way that injection mold designs are way more complicated than 3D printed designs, ended up working on this for a whole year.
Details:
Switches: Gateron browns. 4 switches are 1.5u in size and 56 are 1u in size.
Keycaps: Laser-etched ABS XDA profile keycaps
Connectivity: Wired USB
OS Compatibility: Linux, macOS, Windows
Firmware Compatibility: QMK, Vial, VIA
Keycap Compatibility: XDA, DSA, MOA, SA Row 3 and MA
Keyswitch Compatibility: All MX-style keyswitches
Prelaunch waitlist here is still open until Monday if you want the early backer price.
Happy to answer any questions.
*It is NOT wireless
solid offering. good luck on the campaign.
i didn’t see any tenting options listed, are any planned or is that up to end user?
is there a split distance maximum listed am I missed it?
Thank you. In terms of tenting right now it’s up to the end user but we’re planning something afterwards.
Basically we see that some people still want to use a rest of some sort. But because wrist rests increase pressure on the carpal tunnel one of the options we’re exploring is a tenting kit that makes it so you can use a wrist rest without putting pressure on the carpal tunnel (instead the wrist rest would hit the furthest part of the ulna bone, which can be seen here.