Dactyl-Manuform-Gimbal keyboard

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Why? I wanted to build a keyboard that was a bit different, something that I'd not seen before. I wondered what a keyboard would look like if I merged it with an RC controller, and tried using the RC gimbals as a mouse. The result is quite fun. It's fairly space-efficient, and allows me to use the mouse with either hand. It has proximity sensors to detect when your hand is on the joystick, and turns some of the keys into mouse buttons. Haptic feedback helps to tell when you have switched layers, or long-pressed a key. See https://github.com/sffubs/dactyl_manuform_gimbal for more details.