capsicain VS qmkbuilder

If you want to have layers without buying a QMK keyboard there's some software solutions like capsicain (most powerful, harder to configure, has limitations when working with wireless keyboards), Microsoft Powertoys keyboard manager (easy to configure, very limited with what you can do) that allow the same kind of functionally.

Capsicain is another one: https://github.com/cajhin/capsicain Gotta try 'em all!

The mod has better split, almost orthogonal, two levels of thumb cluster, I use capsicain for this mod, find the config on this link

I'm working on a project at the moment, basically sticking a raspberry pi into the case of an old 200LX palmtop computer that broke on me. The start of this project is to adapt the old keyboard so that it can be used as a standard USB keyboard. I used an old Teensy 2.0 microcontroller and kbfirmware.com (very old i know) to so this, along with a custom interposer PCB to adapt the very weird pad spacing on the keyboard connector to the Teensy.

Idk man, I binge watched more hours of keyboard content, than I'd ever like to admit with how little I've done with that. I guess, I get obsessive easily.Check out Joe Scotto for amazingly clean and tidy handwired boards, Ben Vallack for insane minimalistic crazy designs and layout content.There's Keyboard Layout Editor that works nicely with plate generator and QMK firmware generator so there's one workflow. Also check out ergogen, it's amazing, although I didn't learn KiCAD yet, so never used it to create anything more than a quick visualisation. There's lots of great materials on how keyboards are build and how they work. QMK docs have very insightful handwiring guide.

This is Stardust, named after my dog Ziggy. It's a 41 Key Ortho. My goal with this keyboard was to be able to see if I could fully realize it without ordering anything besides switches. I used an old blank ABS keycap set, some stabs I had laying around, and a Elite C controller. Then I 3D printed the case, and added M2 bolts and threaded inserts to hold it together. I ordered Kiwi switches and designed everything myself using Keyboard Layout Editor, ai03 Plate Generator, KBFirmware and Fusion 360. It was printed on an Ender 3.

I tried to wire everything up in rows and columns and followed that through kbfirmware.com

Built in Keyboard Firmware Builder

And on their GitHub:

Despite it working as I want, kbfirmware.com is 'end-of-life'. Does this mean that there may be vulnerabilities in the code for the controller, or simply that newer features likely won't work etc.? I was planning on using it as it, as it does what I need perfectly, but if it is going to open up my computer to potential vulnerabilities, I'd rather avoid it. Thanks!

On 13 March 2021, kbfirmware.com was shut down due to a lack of users, but has been brought back online after additional consideration.

https://kbfirmware.com/ to map your matrix to pins and export your .hex