Best practices for adjusting the tilt angle of your own keyboard
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One of the problems I have with making my own keyboards is that many models do not have a tilt angle.
Typical off-the-shelf keyboards are sloped from 5 to 9 degrees and are often shaped to fall toward the front.
This way, the distance (or maybe psychological distance) from the home position to the topmost key is shortened, or when pressing the topmost key, the palm does not come in contact with the bottommost key.
(Some people prefer negative camber or a flat profile x flat angle, so it’s a matter of preference.)
In this regard, many home-built keyboards, although they come with rubber feet, do not have the same tilt angle as ready-made keyboards and require a little ingenuity.
The question is, “Then what kind of things should I put on them to angle them?” I guess.
This article presents the author’s best solution at this time.
As a skin feeling, I feel that a typical keyboard is set at a tilt angle of about 5 to 8 degrees.
Some off-the-shelf models can be tilted further by putting out “legs”.
The HHKB, which has an 8-degree tilt angle by default, can be raised two more steps from here, but I don’t use it because it is quite “devil’s camber”.
Keychron Q60 is about 7 degreesHHKB is about 8 degrees
The best part for creating a sloping angle is the “doorstop rubber”.
In conclusion, my current optimal solution is “rubber per door”.
The one in the photo is 10 mm high, and at this height, it is possible to make a tilt angle roughly as shown below.
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