trochee

Rationale - what is "accessibility"?

There are many reasons and situations where one would find themselves without use of one or both of their hands. Injuries, disabilities, child-rearing, and probably countless others I haven't thought of. Usually though, unless the reason is permanent, it is not worth the monetary investment to justify a $400-$1000 Maltron keyboard. I think this is a major problem, and if there were a cheaper option, more people would enjoy a more productive lifestyle while in these compromised situations.

The Trochee keyboard is a parameterized, concave, columnar, ergonomic keyboard with a focus on accessibility. See the design documentation for full details.

It is based on the Dactyl (Pictured below):

Then cross that with the Maltron:

Generating a design

1. Install the Clojure CLI

2. Install OpenSCAD

3. Generate .scad files by evaluating the code in src/trochee.clj.

4. Open generated files in OpenSCAD.

5. Edit, repeat as needed, and export to STL in OpenSCAD to print the model.

Deploy

To build a deployable jar of this library:

$ clojure -A:jar

Install it locally:

$ clojure -A:install

Deploy it to Clojars -- needs CLOJARS_USERNAME and CLOJARS_PASSWORD environment variables:

$ clojure -A:deploy

License

Copyright © 2020 Bobby Towers

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.