Ergodone, ruining all other keyboards forever

Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0000

The Ergodone is a clone of the Ergodox but uses a different controller, and the cases are slightly different. The Ergodox uses a Teensy 2 while the Ergodone uses an Arduino Pro Micro. This doesn’t matter much in my eyes as both can run the QMK firmware.

I saw the Ergodox a couple of years ago while looking for a new keyboard, the idea of “making” my own keyboard and, at the time, never have had the experience of using a mechanical keyboard. I was put off by that as well as the overall cost of ownership, being in the hundreds of pounds.

Since that initial discovery, I had acquired a new Cherry G80 with Cherry Blue key switches, and I was in love. The feeling of typing on this thing as well as the haptic-audio feedback was perfect. I am using this keyboard at work, and this paragraph has been typed with it.

Cherry G80 in Black, with Cherry Blues

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Ergodone, ruining all other keyboards forever