Hi Morgan, This is quite a learning experience for me, seeing what Svalboard is all about. I had never heard of RSI, and had no idea that typing on a QWERTY keyboard could be so painful. I learned to type on a manual typewriter, and used a portable Olympia (which I still have!) through college. I've always sort of missed the pressure of mechanical keys -- it felt productive, like manual labor, pushing those keys all the way through to the platen. Another brand of typewriter that was popular with Hollywood screenwriters, led to the derisive phrase producers used to describe that profession, 'schmucks with Underwoods'. They would have had to find a different line of work if they had RSI. Anyway congratulations on having developed a real product to solve a real problem and seeing it through to paying off -- hopefully big-time.
Love what you're doing here. I have my own custom mech, but I've overloaded my thumbs and RSI is a real fear. The DH, lalboard and svalboard interests me as a real solution. You have an eager supporter in me.
Thanks! The Datahand thumb cluster was a real work of art, and think I've kept the best of it -- the forces are so low, and the differentiation of having keys assigned to different physical parts of the thumb reduces movement dramatically. QMK allows so much flexibility there, too!
Thanks for telling your whole story here. And for your motivation to create this keyboard which helps you and will revolutionize the typing experience for rsi sufferers and clearly has the potential to prevent hand and wrist problems from ever developing in others in the future.
Hi Morgan, This is quite a learning experience for me, seeing what Svalboard is all about. I had never heard of RSI, and had no idea that typing on a QWERTY keyboard could be so painful. I learned to type on a manual typewriter, and used a portable Olympia (which I still have!) through college. I've always sort of missed the pressure of mechanical keys -- it felt productive, like manual labor, pushing those keys all the way through to the platen. Another brand of typewriter that was popular with Hollywood screenwriters, led to the derisive phrase producers used to describe that profession, 'schmucks with Underwoods'. They would have had to find a different line of work if they had RSI. Anyway congratulations on having developed a real product to solve a real problem and seeing it through to paying off -- hopefully big-time.
Love what you're doing here. I have my own custom mech, but I've overloaded my thumbs and RSI is a real fear. The DH, lalboard and svalboard interests me as a real solution. You have an eager supporter in me.
Thanks! The Datahand thumb cluster was a real work of art, and think I've kept the best of it -- the forces are so low, and the differentiation of having keys assigned to different physical parts of the thumb reduces movement dramatically. QMK allows so much flexibility there, too!
Thanks for telling your whole story here. And for your motivation to create this keyboard which helps you and will revolutionize the typing experience for rsi sufferers and clearly has the potential to prevent hand and wrist problems from ever developing in others in the future.