ergoslab VS kmk_firmware

ErgoSlab

My current keyboard has a lot of thumb keys and I use them a lot. I'm getting a bit of RSI from time to time from pushing my thumbs sideways. This means I want future keyboards to activate all the keys using the natural motion of the hand. I've never tried the "lift up" idea, but I hope doing that a lot doesn't cause any injuries 😬.

Yup! That's ESC on tap and a bracket/Fn layer when held. The bracket thing was inspired by tomsaleeba/ergoslab and is still taking some getting used to.

I'm on a 40% too. I was originally on an ErgoDox and thought I couldn't possibly live with any fewer keys, but with more thumb keys and QMK combos I feel quite happy with the 40%. One of the key requirements I had when I designed the ErgoSlab was to have dedicated arrow keys directly below the home row. Now I'm experimenting with having the arrows on the home row in a layer and that's got me thinking I might be able to go smaller. That coupled with recently finding http://asetniop.com/ has me entertaining crazy thoughts like having the home row chorded for alphas and then I've suddenly freed up 20 keys to use for other things... or possibly just remove those keys :O

plenty.. try their zulip and you will see(https://kmkfw.zulipchat.com/).. also google may help... plenty of youtube pushers also will provide you the info...

Im not really sure where the problem would be. Try to flash the example firmware from the official kmk github and see if that works for you. If it doesn't then there may be a problem with the hardware 🤔 https://github.com/KMKfw/kmk_firmware/tree/master/boards/reviung41

You'll need to copy the following onto storage device: 1. CircuitPython files/binaries for controller, if not present 2. kmk folder from KMK firmware. github, if not present. 3. kb.py and main.py files for your board. Pre-configured boards can be found in KMK firmware github in boards directory.

I'll try to set it up locally and will otherwise contact... Got time over Easter. Thx a lot. I also have seen that piantor for KMK has an open pull request which means the board dev will soon be ready for workflow builds of Miryoku. https://github.com/KMKfw/kmk_firmware/pull/723 I like KMK a bit more as it will allow me to quickly change the extra keys to whatever makes sense .... All just with s simple text editor.

Here's a pull request to add piantor board to KMK firmware. The logic to define config for left and right halves is actually really nice.

There's a recent pull request to add the Piantor to KMK, and that's a split 42 key that uses the pico with direct pins to keys: https://github.com/KMKfw/kmk_firmware/pull/723

See above. I set this up some time ago; the one I am using is pretty much the demo one from the KMK github.

I've uploaded these files to github here if you wish to look around but I recommend also looking through the various boards in the kmk github as well for more guidance too. This was my first kmk based keyboard so my code might not be the best lol but I hope this is helpful regardless. Let me know if you have any questions!