Why not use two keyboards in stead of hacking a keyboard? After suffering symptoms of RSI, BC investigated "ergo" keyboards. It turns out that an "ergo" stamp is an excuse to charge truly absurd amounts of money of very common equipment... like $500 for a keyboard, or $200 for a mouse.
BC (bcboy@thecraftstudio.com) also found that no one had quite what he wanted. Part of his symptoms were pains in his elbows from being constantly bent, and pains in his wrists from being held rotated, in the plane of the keyboard. He wanted a keyboard which allowed his wrists and arms to be in their relaxed positions: at his sides. What he imagined was, basically, a saddle-bag keyboard.
He visited a surplus computer parts store, and bought two keyboards for $14. Then he took a jigsaw to one of them.
Details of the cutting and assembling process are available at: www.thecraftstudio.com/bcboy/keyboard.html.
He find that it's comfortable for him. A creative ergo- split.
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