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Looks awesome. What's going on with the space bar?
The great thing about it is you can make it whatever you want it to be. For me it is: left is backspace, middle is to access another layer (which makes left home row letters into direction buttons and right home row letters into number buttons), right button is space.
I'm not home to post a picture, but it would be clearer if I could show you a screenshot of the layout. Basically this means I only ever have to move my hands away from home row to press enter or special symbols.
For me, the left and right also act as layers, if held and something else is pressed. Then I can access a e.g. navigation from the homerow.
whoa, so cool!
Split spacebar, typically one is an enter key. Not sure what the middle would be used for.
As someone with a split spacebar, for me it is: backspace | delete | space
it really is the one thing I cannot go back on.
Holy crap this might make me go buy a mech kit.