I like it, but all day every day I would be staring directly at the space key wishing it was half black.

Just noticed that, the plan now is to paint it half black lol.

I was looking around, because this is a cool idea, and there are folks on etsy that will make a chess piece keycap. I think a red rook (because you can press the top) would be a cool ESC key accent.

To be a chessboard, lower left corner must be black. This is a checkersboard

Why not split it?y Planck is setup with two there instead of one. Enter and Space for left and right, but You could make them both space if you want.

I have been spending way too much time on r/anarchychess

What the actual fück

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Dye the space bar red with RIT dye for synthetic fabrics. May take a number of trials to get it dark enough to match the case.

Damn bro, this is a real interesting tidbit to learn. I'll be updating the keycaps to the proper configuration.

Nice

Wow I never knew that. Thanks for the fun fact dude! :)

Looks pretty good but why not go with a full grid layout?

May i ask what Keyboard this is pls?

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Oi!

Looks like a planck from olkb https://olkb.com/collections/planck

Or just refer to it as a checkerboard? Path of least resistance.

Looks really cool. You seriously type on that though? I really enjoy these type of custom and unique builds. But always end up wondering how some of them work lol.

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Thanks, could you recommend any budget 40 Ortos with hotswap and via support and maybe a cnc case as option under 100usd? I might wanna try this layout as a travel/sofa keyboard and dont wanna spent too much on it tbh. Thanks in advance

fortunately it wont be too hard for you since you used blank keycaps. Just gotta switch the black ones for white and vice versa, then replace the esc key with a white one.

The red casing is a nice touch as well.

lmao

You can find BM40 kits on Aliexpress or KPrepublic that have a hotswap PCB and a case for ~$50-$60.

Take that 2u cap dye half black.

Rit makes a plastic specific dye set. Why red tho?

take a look at your phone keyboard… no numbers!! But you can still type numbers… our keyboards work exactly the same way

Considering I cant put my keycaps back on without a reference, I would be lost haha. But Im impressed with the board.

it just becomes muscle memory. I couldn’t tell you where all my symbols are if you asked me, but I know how to type them.

Thanks will look into this 🙏

Yeah, it’s actually feels strange to type on a regular layout now.

Holy hell

If you rotate a chessboard by 90 degrees it's no longer a chessboard, by your reasoning at least.

I have mine set as left for space and right for FN

bottom right

Or you can paint it grey

only output p r n b q k and space. 2 rows of spaces :)

I love when ppl w orthos choose legendless keycaps, it's such hater ass energy to anyone else who wants to use their keyboard and I live for it

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Credentials: My daily driver is a legendless ortho

Holy hell

So good 🙏

That little white spacebar ruins everything, ª.

Just wanna know how to work with this...

Beat me to it

Just rotate it 90°. Since you only get 4 columns this way, I'd probably recommend files b to e so you get to keep your queen, and you'd be required to keep your king.

Ah, yes. A jj-40 was my first foray into ortholinear. Now I am stuck on Preonic, refusing to type on anything else.

Yes, that's exactly how it works

So the checkersboard keyboard becomes the chessboard macropad - I like it!

red spacebar would be just... mmmmwah, chef's kiss.

So referees at chess tournaments are not, in fact, looking at a chess board, but instead a checkers board. How can they possibly judge a game of chess then?

my solution is to make the central 4 columns all double width chequers,.

r/anarchychess is calling

Not if they are starting black side.

As a trained and certified Chess referee I can tell you - IT'S REALLY HARD ;)

holy hell

Blood of the Ancients demands it

ohw ot riwte

"how to write"

Google en clavier

I do shift and space, then I put my layer keys where the shift keys would normally be.

Works pretty well.

This gives me anxiety.

I read cheeseboard at first and shuddered...

Wowww

A wood case and an ESC king keycap would be perfect