May I introduce to you my Atreus62_FT <3
- Atreus62_FT in bamboo case version 1 w/ standard oil finish and grey braided cable
- SP-Star Polaris Grey linear switches, lubed and filmed
- 9009 XDA profile keycaps, blanks
It sports one of those nifty controllers. in this case a Pro Micro which I opted to flash with Vial firmware. Man it’s wild being able to simply open up the Vial GUI change a bunch of keys and have them instantly change/apply.
Currently rocking Colemak-DHm with ÅÄÖ as an addition. Still figuring out where I want my modifier-, symbol- and punctuation keys to be positioned and accessed. Got my OS keyboard layout set to a US variant of the Swedish layout. This gives me ANSI/US symbol keys yet ÅÄÖ accessible through AltGr which I access on the Atreus62 by having them set to RAlt+; ‘ [ quantum keys.
Had a go at monkeytype last night rocking amazingly slow 10 words per minute going from 55 WPM on the laptop keeb. On the plus side the angled and staggered column layout is very comfortable. Have never been a true touch typist but this will force me to learn it and start utilizing all fingers, thumbs and all.
There were no publicly available Vial firmware for the Atreus62 to my knowledge and I jumped into it with no QMK experience trying to grasp how to cobble together all of it into a working firmware .hex. Took me a couple of sessions of combining documentation from Vial, QMK, Via, official Vial Discord and also the fine folks of Keebtalk and some of my own intuition.
Lastly I’d like to express gratitude to Jan at falba.tech who was very alert and open to questions and thoughts via email - had a very good experience interacting with him regarding my purchase.
Weren’t sure just how much difference the column stagger would do feels-wise. Can’t believe it’s not the standard
I have this nickname out of my teenage time.