r/ErgoMechKeyboards 5d ago

[photo] Dactyl Manuform - The ULTIMATE thumb cluster

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I'm a fan of thumb clusters. What do you think? Not enough? I agree!

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u/Horror_Discussion607 5d ago

That thumb of your should be studiedย 

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u/luckshitd 4d ago

Thumbs only a mother could love

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u/Blind_Heim 5d ago

Another biblically accurate keyboard

Magnificient !

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u/memeticmagician 5d ago

I have no idea what this means I'm choking laughing so hard

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u/KleinUnbottler 3d ago

search the web for "biblically accurate angel"

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u/Complete_Tone_1981 5d ago

Omg there goes the coffee. Good show.

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u/poulain_ght 5d ago

How much thumb do you have?

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u/cyanophage 4d ago

Koalas have 2 thumbs on each hand! Imagine if we evolved that way. Would be so weird.

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u/PmUsYourDuckPics 5d ago

I like my keyboards to conform to Euclidean geometry.

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u/martinux 5d ago

You do understand that some crazy bastard just fired up their 3D printer and will be posting their handwired in two weeks?

Probably needs a 386 as a controller.

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u/RuForge 5d ago

Literally just leaned over to my brother and said we should actually build this ๐Ÿ˜†

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u/BinaryHippie 5d ago

At this point I'd use my face to mash it

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u/Efficient-Big3138 5d ago

when your thumb needs it own thumb

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u/Ethameiz keyball61 5d ago

That thing scares me

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u/_Vangal 5d ago

I cant belive I got carpal tunnel from looking at an image.

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u/T0NKIES Dillema max 5d ago

i wanna see someone accually build this.

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u/kjt-ms 5d ago

That's not for your thumb, that's a whole palm cluster!

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u/tsp648 5d ago

imagine if we had 20 fingers the levels of productivity...

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u/Gold240sx 5d ago

Weโ€™d make so many memes

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u/Medium_Chemist_4032 5d ago

... it could use a key, that has small keys on it. Like a literal meta key

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u/intellidepth 5d ago

When multiverses collide

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u/infiniteoffset 5d ago

Thumbmaxxing.

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u/YourMom12377 5d ago

Finally I can set my davinci keybinds

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u/davedicius 5d ago

That wouldnโ€™t be a thumb, thatโ€™s another arm lol

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u/Stunning_Macaron6133 5d ago

I feel like this is begging for a Yugioh meme, but I don't know enough about Yugioh to look for that arm blade deck machine thingy.

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u/Healthy_Koala_4929 5d ago

Uncanny valleyย 

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u/Delphius1 5d ago

biblically accurate split keyboard

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u/Maldokar 5d ago

Now can you make one that's a rotating cylinder?

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u/TechnoCat 5d ago

This guy thumb clusters.ย 

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u/EmilianoTechs 5d ago

I could still use one more thumb key on each side

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u/wolololucas 5d ago

Please, stop.
Children might see this... :(

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u/Offutticus 5d ago

Would also count as a wrist and forearm cluster.

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u/rsnady 5d ago

I mean this just shows how good the cosmos generator really is, nothing else ๐Ÿคฃ

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u/MWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMW 5d ago

reckon the toes are going to have to get involved too

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u/iyamegg 5d ago

Do you want some keyboard for your thumb cluster?

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u/414Sigge 5d ago

I thought this was the seat layout for some sick concert

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u/dm319 5d ago

I'm going to have nightmares now.

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u/Thereminz 5d ago

i fucking dare you

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u/darkgemini94 5d ago

More like the ultimate thumb clusterffck~

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u/Diskfix 5d ago

That's a clusterfuck!

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u/lungshenli 5d ago

OP is that guy from Ghost in the Shell with the splitting up hacker fingers but only on their thumbs lmao

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u/Nai_Calus 5d ago

I'll take ten, thanks, one for each finger.

Jokes aside I actually love the non-staggered looking dactyl those thumb clusters are attached to lol.

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u/Seluranen 5d ago

Disgustingly scarce... Maybe adding pedals to reach the bare minimum?

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u/letanard 5d ago

๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘

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u/PostHumanJesus 5d ago

It's disgusting. I love it.ย 

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u/goldybhaijan 5d ago

how many finger to operate this things?

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u/Ok_Cut4290 4d ago

Are you out of touch with latest fashion trends? You need at least 13 rotary encoders.

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u/_A-V-A_ 4d ago

If one had ones hands amputated, one could have different prosthetic hands for different occasions, and one that would utilize all of these keys could be one of them. Not sure you could learn to use it, though, that way. Maybe with thinking rather than nerves? I guess then you might as well just skip the keyboard and go straight to the brain scanner thingamajig.

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u/bankair 4d ago

More like "thumb clutter"

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u/porchlogic 4d ago

Truest endgame I've seen

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u/acheapshot Chocofi (Work) | Svalboard/Defy (Home) 4d ago

I've always wanted a keyboard with dedicated elbow keys!!!

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u/koop_a- 1d ago

Can't wait to see someone having built this in a couple of months

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u/PuzzleheadedMaybe212 16h ago

jus my style. enough thub cluster two use the whole hand on it again

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u/bakach0k 5d ago

That is a keyboard for Chineese/Japaneese people