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1 HN user recommended this in 2014, in one comment.
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If you're interested in soldering together a keyboard, but not having to design everything from scratch, it's worth checking out the Ergodox: http://ergodox.org/ . I built one a month ago, and I'm enjoying it a lot. It's a two-piece keyboard with straight key columns, and six buttons for each thumb. You can order the parts on massdrop, when they start another order: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/ergodox?s=ergodox
It's not perfect, mind you: the thumb islands are three buttons wide, and my thumb rests on the innermost button. And I have hands larger than average; I don't know how someone with smaller hands would find the board. Also, because of the layout changes, some keys (the square braces, enter, - and =) have to be moved somewhere else; the buttons you're used to pressing just aren't there.
There are some tiny parts; if you buy it, get a head-mounted magnifier with a light, like this one: http://www.amazon.com/SE-MH1047L-Illuminated-Multipower-Magn... . I don't know how I would've been able to surface-mount the tiny diodes without it.
Obviously, the downside to having a keyboard with radically different placements of buttons is that going to other keyboards becomes difficult again. I haven't solved this problem, but might end up buying a second one for work.