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Its a DIY split keyboard:

https://www.zsa.io/voyager

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>> What is "the Voyager"?

> Its a DIY split keyboard:

For me, the next mystery is What is he trying to do?

His issue: [cats] graze the edge of my trackpad [making] mouse around register weirdly

His solution: I had seen some implementations of a Cirque trackpad on other DIY split keyboards

I would describe (his presentation of) his solution as "Darmok and Jalad..." but that would be oblique.

So, what is a Cirque in this context?

The whole thing is written for insiders. Nothing wrong with that, but when it gets picked up by an aggregator like HN you have the issue of 99% of your new readership having to figure out what exactly it is you are talking about.

Well, luckily whenever that happens, someone asks "wtf is going on?" and the entire comment thread fills with all the context you could possibly need

It's a spontaneous, Cooperative MMO.

It is programmable but the HW is sold assembled and ready to use. Wouldn't qualify it as DIY.

Open hardware perhaps?

It's open source for sure. But yeah, there's no DIY required (which is why ZSA and their keyboards are so popular - it's the Apple of the DIY-programmable-ergonomic-keyboard world, providing excellent build quality and great experience for a price).

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