Rolio 0.1 Pre-Release
Rolio 0.1 Pre-Release
I've made the 0.1 design available to the public now.
Ive been using it for a few weeks myself and its quite nice to use, particularly with the aluminium chassis (the GitHub repo has FDM and CNC designs).
In any case, for those curious the GitHub is here: https://github.com/MickiusMousius/RolioKeyboard
I am working on the V1.0 model, PCB's should arrive in a few days. I think the V1.0 release should be good enough for others to make. The current model is nice, but there are a lot of improvements in the pipeline particularly regarding aesthetics.
V1.0 sample below:
That's so awesome. In amazed you've put it all out there for others to sell. I'm sure it's going to show up on AliExpress pre-made soon. I'd happily buy this.
Thanks.
I think it’d be great if they started showing up on AliExpress.
This is a super cool keyboard. I love the “roller”. I could be tempted to make one of these if it had the number row.
Exactly this. I need a number row for work or gaming which limits the split and ergo keyboard options significantly.
Does the Lily58 or Iris fit your needs better then? Or is there something else about this board that trumps those other 2?
The primary difference to me seems to be roller vs rotary encoder and number row. And while I too, prefer rollers over rotary encoders :D... if the number row is critical to your use case those boards seem to be a better option.
@Followupquestion
Do the layer options not work for you?
@hellweaver666
It's interesting to see these rollers popping up some more, especially with two posts about them in such a short period of time(https://lemmy.world/post/4760068?scrollToComments=true). They're much better than the normal rotary encoders and I've enjoyed using mine a lot. Though sourcing them is unfortunately a bit tricky (and thus on the more expensive side).
I'm currently making a new board using the Nintendo Switch joysticks to replace them, I'm curious how the two compare.
I’d love to see that.
I have a design I’m tinkering with as an idea that has two 5 way sticks. The actuation force is too high IMO, but I could not find a suitable digital switch.
Are you interfacing to the switch sticks using analog or do you have some nice low power digital solution?
That's an original stagger. Why?
Otherwise, beautiful board.
Thanks.
I took some hand measurements and this is what it came out with:
I didn’t add the splay, I started to add it, but decided that in practical terms it likely doesn’t make much difference but it made things quite unwieldy looking.
In practice I’ve found the pinky column needs to drop by about 3-4mm which is a change I have in the newest iteration.
Be careful that, with this tool, you are naturally reproducing the habits you already have. I've seen this tool used by Ben Vallack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBjVhJY4io&list=PLCZYyvXAdQpsEWfa6OEBOhHn48SWgneoD) and you can see, in his progression, that at first he was for no pinky stagger, and now he is for aggressive pinky stagger.
Awesome looking board. Thanks for the files!
No worries, you’re very welcome.
If you’d like I can share the V1.01 files to you too. The improvements are also electrical as well as mechanical (eg some caps to smooth out the rollers). Otherwise I anticipate publishing in about 4ish weeks time.
Sure. I built a sofle a while back so I am looking for a new project to try some chocs on.
no one has asked about the very detailed key caps … but you have a link in the github repository to fkcaps
I expect once it’s at a “now it’s done” stage that might come up more.
Right now this is little more than a nice POC. I think the refined version will be quite a bit better…. And easier to make all going well.
This is lovely. I'm currently using a lilty58 while leaving the number row empty, and have been looking for a board to downsize to. I don't feel ready to go down to as low as 42 keys, so the corne is still a bit intimidating.
This? This looks like the Goldilocks medium I need at the moment. 😆
Nice, I’m glad it resonates with you.
In a month or so I expect having a properly refined release.
Beautiful board! I thought the thumbnail might be a render, that's crazy
Thankyou.
I’ve started assembling V1 today. Which means I can finish the mechanical design this week. I’m looking forwards to having it, I think it’s going to look very nice.
Looking forward to an update when it's done (hopefully with lots of pics :)!
It looks awesome! Does it have flip-out feet? I have to have a slight angle on my keyboards.
