ebastler

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by ebastler 1mo ago
Optical keyboards are still around (although rare) and usually use some variation of Cherry MC style switches without contact pins. Newer tech also consists of magnetic designs (hall effect, tunnelmagnetoresistance or inductive). These all
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by ebastler 1mo ago
The board runs ZMK, which handles layers quite similarly to QMK/VIA. Whether you can bind dedicated layers to output profiles for automated switching in ZMK I do not know, but toggling between layers manually via some shortcut when you
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by ebastler 4y ago
Thanks! This was by far my most advanced PCB design so far - lots of reading and research involved. Pretty proud it worked at first try.
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by ebastler 4y ago
There's quite a lot of choice for split keyboards out there - one of my favorites being the Corneish Zen by lowprokb - just two small boards, wireless interconnect. I made it a unibody design on purpose - better battery life, and only
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by ebastler 4y ago
You probably know how this kind of projects usually starts. "Hey, XY would be nice, I bet it'll be a quick and easy project". Then feature creep happens, then you're not satisfied with your work and start from scratch, a
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I designed an open source ergonomic wireless keyboard over the course of 2 years(github.com)
2 points by ebastler 4y ago|5 comments
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by ebastler 4y ago
Some wifi/ble modules come pre-certified. The holyiot 18010 (nRF52840) on the prototype comes with FCC/RoHS certs from the factory, so at least the Bluetooth part is "guaranteed" to be conform, and everything else is so
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by ebastler 4y ago
I think that's mostly a "I tested it with these OS so I can guarantee it works" thing - ZMK should work with pretty much anything out there as long as it can do HID over Bluetooth.
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by ebastler 4y ago
2. This one is basically limited by what a 3 position slider (usb/bt1/bt2) can do, the firmware could do up to 5. We could offer an alternative firmware where the slider can do bt1/bt2/bt3, and USB or Bluetooth is automa
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by ebastler 4y ago
Only thing I can imagine - super hard to find keycaps.
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by ebastler 4y ago
Sure thing. We'll release the original firmware configuration alongside with the board, so changing the keymap and recompiling a new firmware wouldn't be a big deal, flashing is easy over USB (and once ZMK studio is ready, you wil
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by ebastler 4y ago
Depends a lot. If you want it fully assembled, you have to go to larger fab houses like PCBway, and spend a few hundred bucks on a 5pc batch. If you can hand-solder some parts (in this case, the Bluetooth module and the USB connector) and d
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by ebastler 4y ago
It's running open source ZMK firmware, which has no problems connecting to Linux devices, and if I remember correctly the "base keymap" features will all work cross-OS, and can be remapped easily with a firmware update.
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by ebastler 4y ago
Encoders are pretty nice for volume and screen brightness, and if you are working with some specific software you could in theory remap them to other random stuff like scroll through a video editor timeline. My usecase is limited to volume&
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by ebastler 4y ago
With ZMK firmware (that's what this board is running) latency can be seriously low in my experience - but it heavily depends on signal strength and BT chipset of the PC. My desktop has an older intel WiFi card with antennas behind the
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by ebastler 4y ago
I'm not a member of the team, but was contracted for the PCB design as an external freelancer - I have one of the PCB prototypes sitting in a shelf, and the designer has a fully functional prototype with aluminum case and keycaps alrea
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by ebastler 4y ago
I am the person who designed the PCB for the current prototype. It's running the open source ZMK firmware, and that one works flawlessly on Linux. I had a prototype connected to my notebook (T450s, Intel AC9260 wifi chip, Arch Linux) a
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by ebastler 4y ago
PCB designer of the board here - The second switch can toggle USB/Bluetooth profile 1/Bluetooth profile 2 (3 pos slider), but the board runs the open source ZMK firmware and you can reconfigure it however you want. Auto-switching