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Ergonomic Keyboard Design Prototype

Ergonomic Keyboard design is a test of concept. It is based on preventing wrist fatigue affecting Programmers that have to code for hours in one sitting. The idea came to me when my room-mate, a CSE major kept complaining about his wrist after major coding sessions. 
We both went though online resources for building a custom keyboard and decided on Nyquist split build as our base. We tweaked and raised some sides and lowered other to fit human hands better. We also chose a mixture of Cherry MX mechanical key types depending on the location on the board, tailoring to lower or higher activation force and response speed. Due to the absence of a PCB for our unique design we painstakingly micro-soldered each Cherry MX key and connected it to an Arduino Pro Micro on each hand side.

The design has so far reduced fatigue immensely compared to unnatural wrist positions that conventional keyboards require. 

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©2019 by Junayed-Ahmed Nowshad.

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