deskthority

IMHO, based on my own experience with RSI – and this will probably be an unpopular opinion – the biggest improvement is to simply learn to properly touch-type, so you minimize the movement of the joints that you stress. Even better if you get an ergonomic layout.

I'm a fairly competent touch ...

It appears that Signature Plastics can produce caps with a larger variant on the Gorton Modified they use, implied by http://keycapsdirect.com/pdfs/LineFont.pdf

Title says it all: I'm waging the fight against RSI and my foray into the game (Ergodox, Gateron Blues) has done a huge amount for me. Working with normal keyboards now feels strange and confining (even uncomfortable at times).

I'm going to be making another. The question is: What switches should I ...

y11971alex wrote: Do you have an hour to spare for an explanation?

Pinyin is a Romanization of Chinese using the constituent parts from their rough pronunciation. Pinyin IMEs use this Romanization to construct characters, helping the user choose the correct radical set. Wikipedia has more info

Looks like they managed to get a shot or two with a smashed cap or two.

Can someone explain to me why there is a huge room of kids typing out Chinese documents at insane speed? I am kind of missing the educational aspect of this for the kids and the Gargled translation of the description isn't helping me any...

Bing has a slightly less transglarblated description ...

Wodan wrote: Haven't seen the nixie caps on a custom keyboard ever

If I had a set of them, I'd totally be up for giving them a run on the Ergodox I'm going to build soon.

They're challenging because of the three (!) different heights: one for keys, one for the side/numpad and then another for the top special row. Getting my hands on originals seems like a fool's errand, too, because everyone seems to go for the switches, then ditch the caps.

Those look pretty cool, but how are you going to produce a finished keyset? From what I understand it includes making entirely new moulds for each key, which will no doubt take a while to develop and fund!
Alternatively you could look at the Devlin Q-series keycaps, they remind a bit of the general ...

After letting go of my last mech keeb (a deck compressed layout) I discovered Nixdorfs. after seeing them and kinda lusting over them, I thought "Wait, the keys are likely just as popular as the switches!"

I then thought "I have OpenSCAD, I can make them myself!"

This is what I have so far for 1u ...