I'm getting annoyed with the asymmetry of the PC104/105 keyboard arrangement. I guess the time has finally arrived for me to design and build my own, custom keyboard.

Wishlist:

- movement block ( Ins, Del, Home, End, PgUp, PgDown, ←,↑,↓,→ ) and media control keys on the left

- Letters/symbols/digits and F-keys goes into the middle

- Split main block for angled ergonomics?

- TrackPoint?

- Numeric entry block on the right.

Also, I do enjoy writing gateware more than writing firmware → FPGA.

media control/movement on the left is something that should have happened in the early 90s

instead of that, we started to make do with wasd instead of special keys and slowly started to remove that block alltogether.

that's some huge missed opportunity there!

btw: IMHO split/angled main never was a useful idea and pos1/end/pgup/pgdn has to be alt-mode on cursor keys

@dat

If I'm doing this, it'll become 4 PCBs of similar dimensioned pairs, instead of a single one with high aspect ratio, just for easier (=cheaper) manufacturing. Can then arrange the blocks in whatever way in a 3D printed chassis.