I used this keyboard for almost a year. It works good, but its exploitation revealed a number of fields that need improvement.



Layout.

Solid single-part body.

Built-in pointing device.

Mechanical switches.

Noisy Blue Cherry-MX switches.

Long key travel (yes, I'm used to laptop keyboards). I'll try using ML switches.

Keystrokes are detected (sent to computer) on release not on press, this is unusual and not comfortable. 32xe keys act both as shift-keys and as ordinary keys. I'll try moving shift keys to a separate row.

Wireless (BT) interface needed.

Replace trackball (that works good) with touch-pad. This makes mouse mode detection more intuitive.

Split the uni-body design into separate units (left-right-thumbs-tracker) attached to the rigid chassis. This helps to experiment with different designs (ergonomic, compact, back-typer, with built-in laptop etc).

What I like about 32xe keyboard:What needs improvement:What needs researh:

The accumulated improvements demands the complete redesign.

So it'l be the completely different new keyboard and the new project.