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The UHK IS a real product! See https://twitter.com/UltHackKeyboard

Hi there! You ordered your UHKs within 2 years, and they are just being manufactured. Please check out https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/delivery-status

You should finally have them in about a week or two.

We're catching up, and will deliver every pre-order in about two months. Thanks for your patience!

Split keyboards are primarily designed for touch typist who consistently hit keys with their fingers. Replicating middle keys would result in extra bulk.

Hardware level configuration is beneficial if you switch between computers, (especially which you don't have control over) on a regular basis.

Any specific questions, feel free to ask me.

Some other reviews:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/8rnr8l...

http://codingsupply.com/ultimate-hacking-keyboard-review-wor...

http://brettterpstra.com/2018/08/17/i-wrote-a-review-of-the-...

Franky, the UHK has received extremely positive reviews with the exception of Jamie's.

Just enabled the cache, so hopefully you should be able to open the UHK site now.

Jamie wasn't looking for a 60% keyboard, yet he purchased the UHK which is a 60% keyboard. That directly resulted in his review. Imagine you want a sedan but buy a truck.

Thanks Tom!

Because it's a tad easier to configure the UHK via Agent than QMK keyboards. http://ultimatehackingkeyboard.github.io/agent/

> Tell me, is your keyboard designed for use with a computer?

Of course it is.

> No. It isn't a pain, it called hacking and you only need to do it once and it is free and shareable.

It's not a pain for some who have the skills and are willing to spend enough time. The big difference is that we enable users to make this work in an intiutive, platform-independent way.

Instead of making blanket statements, please name these Android and OSX applications.

I know from experience that scripts do not work out of the box. Often times their syntax is nontrivial. I also know quite few limitations of xmodmap/xev keymaps and autohotkey. Using a configuration application does work out of the box.

Please name such tools on OSX and Android that enable to user to create kemaps and layers in a similar fashion and preferably doesn't require the user to root the device.

Accessing the system APIs have no use in alone. The solution should work out of the box without hacking for ages.

"Storing the mapping on a large device doesn't make sense" - I agree about this, the large device being a bulky host computer. Various OSes have various (sometimes quite severe) limitations regarding remapping and the "script" that you mention is also OS-specific which is a pain if you use multiple OSes.

The UHK is hackable from a number of standpoints. You will not only be able to configure it with our cross-platform, open source configurator application, but

* modify the firmware at the source level

* repair it more easily than regular keyboards given its repair friendly design: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/blog/2015/06/17/ifixit-g...

* mount it onto external objects like an armchair: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/blog/2015/04/20/introduc...

* We'll open source the electornics, making not only the firmware and host side configurator application hackable but the electronics design, too

* We have yet another one-of-a-kind stretch goal to be announced that will massively add to the above points

Even though you can use Autohotkey and similar software to remap your layout but it's limited in various aspects so as it turns out hardware-level remapping has no substitute. It's also nice to create keymaps, save it to the onboard EEPROM and be able to move your UHK across different computers without ever dealing with (OS-specific) remapping again.

The staggered columns are indeed offset to create an angle but it's more comfortable to be able to adjust the angle and the distance between the keyboard halves.

As the lead developer of the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard I can confirm that the Fn key can be reprogrammed just like any other key.

You can make Backspace emit Ctrl, Enter emit Alt+Tab, or make the Right Shift play back a macro.

There's some truth about this, although brown switches (which we'll also provide) should not be so loud. :)

Hi zck!

First of all sorry for the delayed response. Here are the answers:

1. No drivers required. You only need Agent, the cross-platform configurator application installed on your computer.

2. Yes, these remapping scenarios are all possible.

3. I've only used staggered layouts up until this point so it was natural to me to design a staggered keyboard but I'm very interested in matrix keyboards and we plan to design a matrix keyboard in the future if everything goes well.

4. This might be possible. I'm not sure how much SRAM will be available after implementing all the planned functionality.

5. Layers are stateless, so you have to keep Fn pressed to use the Fn layer and so on.

6. Keymaps, however, are stateful, so you can permamently switch keymaps, not having to keep any modifiers pressed. Hopefully this answers your question.

7. The Ultimate Hacking Keyboard is a fully NKRO keyboard and it features diodes in its key matrix so no ghosting will happen if that's what you are worried about.

8. Yes, you will be able to do all of this. As a matter of fact Linux is our primary development platform.

9. Yes, the keymaps and the layers of the keymaps along with all the other configuration settings get permamently saved in to the EEPROM of the keyboard. We also plan to make them easily sharable eventually.