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Looking for a portable keyboard similar to the advantage 360 (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by moseschrute@lemmy.world to c/ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world

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I absolutely love my kinesis advantage 360. So much so, that I wanna find a similar portable keyboard that I can bring with me in a backpack. I’m looking for split keyboards that has a similar key layout and similar size thumb cluster.

The Halcyon Elora looks promising. Any other recommendations? This will be mostly for coding if you need an idea of what keys are import to me. And I use vim (bwt) if that context helps too lol.

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[–] jaredj@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Glove80 is keywell-shaped, and is a product. https://bastardkb.com/ has fine Manuform-thumb-cluster keyboards.

I have printed a Dactyl Manuform; its thumb cluster has six keys, but is quite different from the Kinesis, I'm afraid. I think the original Dactyl was an attempt at making a more portable Kinesis Advantage. I guess you can maybe generate a Dactyl design at https://ryanis.cool/dactyl/ ?

I'm afraid my advice is a few years old because I haven't kept up. The Dactyl Manuform was supposed to be a stopgap, but it's worked well enough that my focus has drifted to other projects.

See also kbd.news if you haven't before. I used to think, why is this dude making his own website when everybody's already on r/mk? ... And then Reddit sold out.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks! I was looking at the glove 80. I’m a little on the fence if I want something closer to the advantage 360 or something that leans more portable. The glove 80 looks slightly bigger than I’d prefer for on the go work.

However, the Go60 looks like a more compact version of the glove 80. I was considering that too.

[–] jaredj@infosec.pub 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah, a flat keyboard will generally beat a keywell keyboard for portability, I suppose. For my current Dactyl Manuform, I printed a hard case that covers each half, and then I set them together bottom-to-bottom and put the whole thing in a bag that happens to be just tight enough. When I put that in my backpack, it's like a large plastic stone. Not flat. Works well enough for me though.

[–] dracc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dactyl, Dactyl-cc, Dactyl Manuform would be my suggestions.

What's stopping you from bringing your Kinesis Advantage360?

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I love the kinesis because it’s heavy and feels sturdy. I think I would hate traveling with it for the same reason.

After more reading, I was leaning towards the Go60. But these Dactyl keyboard look sick. The thumb clusters look better on the dactyl but I do like the portability of the go60.