Ghetto fabulous negative tilt keyboard
Currently I’m using the Belking Ergo Board Pro USB edition as my primary work keyboard. Mainly because it is one of the only USB ergonomic keyboards. I tried the MS Natural 4000, but it sucks goat, so I had to get this one.
It’s pretty good, except it doesn’t have the negavtive tilt like the 4000 does (which I liked). Today, I decided to improvise, and started to look for office items that I could use to prop up the front side of my keyboard.
After looking through the supply cabinet for a few minutes, bingo! mini-post-it’s. This Belkin has 4 rubber feet, two in the back, and two in the front. I stack together these mini-post-it’s to just the right height (and they’re adjustable because you can split and combine stacks of post-it’s) I put two stacks under the front two rubber feet and voila, a stable, negative tilt.
It looks a big ghetto, but it’s not that bad.
I think I can do better, but it will take some time. I have a grand idea involving cutting angled conic sections out of paper cups to make supports that will prop up the front of the keyboard at an angle. I think the idea is genius, but I need to do some math to figure out the correct angles. Also there may be some issues involved in attaching the supports to the keyboard itself, since the belkin has a very flat bottom side (maybe krazy glue?)
Post-it’s will do for now.
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