Keyboardio Preonic

This keyboard arrived a couple weeks ago. Still loving those box white switches! The key caps feel a little flimsy though, after using my much cheaper th40 for a while. I’ll have to see how things go.

It has a knob in the upper right corner next to the any key and the fun key. The knob was not mapped to anything, despite the documentation claiming it would be volume up/down. I’ve only added console font size increase and decrease to the knob so far. It pleases me greatly. The any key rather hilariously inserts a random key when pressed.

So far I’ve remapped some of the same bindings I use on the th40 on my Preonic, despite that it has dedicated keys for some things (like hyphen.) I just don’t like to make my fingers travel as far to reach things. Though on the topic of remapping, embarrassingly, I have no keymap backups from anything, it would seem. And aside from the obvious ones, I can’t consciously recall what keys should be where. Instead I go to smack a key I expect to be in a place to do a thing and it doesn’t happen. Then I have to sit and think about what I’ve done and what I meant to have happen and locate the help docs for vim to find out what key would have done the thing I was trying to do. Then I launch Chrysalis and remap a few more keys.

Also, it’s the perfect size for the clipboard case that my smaller pi is in. I’m considering whether I want to remodel it to look like a TRS 80 or just have it unfold and type.

Here’s an ascii depiction of the pi, except it’s hidden behind the lcd, so the pi isn’t really shown… Anyway, here’s an ascii depiction showing the unfolded clipboard case. The lid to the left remains empty, all of the components are in the right hand side. It’s a little bigger than an 8.5x11 sheet of paper on each side. The right side is where everything is with the LCD at the top, pi (not shown) hidden behind the LCD, battery directly beneath the LCD, and the Keyboardio Preonic fits perfectly beneath that.

┌──────────────────┐┌──────────────────┐
│                  ││ ┌──────────────┐ │
│   empty lid      ││ │     LCD      │ │
│  side of the     ││ │              │ │
│      case        ││ └──────────────┘ │
│                  ││       ┌───────┐  │
│                  ││       │battery│  │
│                  ││       └───────┘  │
│                  ││┌────────────────┐│
│                  │││               ○││
│                  │││  Keyboardio    ││
│                  │││  Preonic       ││
│                  │││  Keyboard      ││
│                  ││└────────────────┘│
└──────────────────┘└──────────────────┘

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