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The DMOTE application

This is a CAD program for designing a keyboard that suits you. By editing text files of parameters, you can change:

Here are two of the application’s bundled designs for concave, columnar, ergonomic keyboards, as examples of what you can do:

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Concertina

⤤ The Concertina, a diploid keyboard with 20 thumb keys and 3 assortment drawers.

Image of the second working DMOTE

⤤ The original, split DMOTE keyboard, short for “Dactyl-ManuForm, Opposable Thumb Edition”.

To get started, try the introduction, part of the project’s documentation.

Links

This project, the DMOTE application, is a fork of Tom Short’s Dactyl-ManuForm. It’s one of many forks in the Dactyl genus.

There’s a small family of accessory projects:

Like its parent, the DMOTE project is based on Matthew Farrell’s scad-clj. A second small family of general CAD libraries for scad-clj have grown up around the DMOTE project.

License

Copyright © 2015–2023 Matthew Adereth, Tom Short, Viktor Eikman et al.

The source code for generating the models (everything excluding the things/ and resources/ directories) is distributed under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3. The generated models and PCB designs are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License Version 3.0.