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adereth / dactyl-keyboard

dactyl-keyboard

Parameterized ergonomic keyboard

22Distinct people
25Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
3.2KGitHub stars
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What it is

Parameterized ergonomic keyboard

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year25 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-02-26 22:32:27 UTC to 2025-01-03 13:00:27 UTC.

02462016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
The Dactyl Keyboard The Dactyl is a parameterized, split-hand, concave, columnar, ergonomic keyboard. There's a talk about the motivation and design of the Dactyl that helps provide context for this repo: Assembly Generating a Design Setting up the Clojure environment Install the Clojure runtime Install the Leiningen project manager Install OpenSCAD Generating the design Run lein repl Load the file (load-file "src/dactyl_keyboard/dactyl.clj") This will regenerate the things/*.scad files Use OpenSCAD to open a .scad file. Make changes to design, repeat load-file, OpenSCAD will watch for changes and rerender. When done, use OpenSCAD to export STL files Tips Some other ways to evaluate the clojure design file Example designing with clojure Printing Pregenerated STL files are available in the things/ directory. Wiring Masks for the flexible PCBs I used are available for the left and right side. A very rough guide for the brave is here - It will be improved over time (TODO)! License Copyright © 2015 Matthew Adereth The source code for generating the models (everything excluding the things/ and resources/ directories is distributed under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3. The generated models and PCB designs are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License Version 4.0.
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What Hacker News says

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There has always been a wireless version of the above-mentioned Kinesis Advantage 360, also running the ZMK firmware. Before it, there were the open-source Dactyl variants that more or less copied the Kinesis. The original Dactyl [1] (2015) has a layout like the Kinesis but the more popular Dactyl Manuform variants have different thumb clusters. And people have been building them both with wired and wireless controllers. The history is not complete without mentioning that Kinesis (Model 100 in 1992) in turn had copied the Maltron [2], designed by Lilian Malt in the 1970's. 1. https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard 2. https://www.maltron.com/maltron-history.html
In Ergo S-1 – An open-source ergonomic wireless keyboard

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