piantor
The Piantor Keyboard is a beginner-friendly, easy-to-solder, 42-key or 36-key, diodeless, low profile aggressive column staggered, hotswappable and non-hotswappable, programmable ergonomic mechanical split keyboard powered by Raspberry Pi Pico or other compatible RP2040 boards. It is based on the Cantor Keyboard. (by beekeeb)
balbuzard
A 36-key ergonomic keyboard with more wingspan (by brow)
| piantor | balbuzard | |
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| 13 | 5 | |
| 525 | 61 | |
| 7.0% | - | |
| 4.0 | 0.0 | |
| 7 months ago | almost 2 years ago | |
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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piantor
Posts with mentions or reviews of piantor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-13.
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Corne, but with a wider thumb cluster and stronger column stagger?
There are a few things that are close: * The Cantor/Piantor: more aggressive stagger and slightly changed thumb cluster. * The Swept Corne: essentially a big sweep. * The Hillside 46/48: This comes in many forms which are very similar to what you are looking for. Essentially an extra aggressive stagger (and perhaps splayed) Corne with a bigger thumb cluster.
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Minimal layouts (34/36 keys) : do you keep the same rows for the pinkie ?
I've been looking at the https://github.com/beekeeb/piantor
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NKRO
Particularly does the Piantor keyboard https://github.com/beekeeb/piantor supports NKRO ?
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a second half stops working
I have a piantor (https://github.com/beekeeb/piantor 2x rpi pico WeAct, halves connected by a TTRS cable, vial firmware for WeAct) keyboard built by myself (I soldered somethink like 10 years ago so I'm not an expert). It worked great but now the right half started to stop working. It happens after some idle time and happened once during usage. Diode is on on the broken half even when it does not work.
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DIY Carrying Case for my Piantor
A fork of the Cantor which uses a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller (or other RP2040-compatible microcontroller). See its GitHub page.
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Please share your Piantor keyboard keymap files.
Couldn't find anywhere to download keymap files for Piantor keyboard, and don't have enough determination to start from scratch designing myself. Could you please share some of your creations? Thanks. My Piantor is a RPI0 variant, if that matters.
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Built a Piantor and am quite happy with the result! What do recommend next after learning better colemak typing :-) ?
No it is the default case, see beekeep GitHub https://github.com/beekeeb/piantor/tree/main/case
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Piantor and Leeloo
Ah yeah sorry, the piantor is not wireless (i removed the trrs cable to get them closer together). I traded off the convenience of wireless for an easier unpacking job (no need to make sure everything is charged, flip the on/off switches etc.) Not sure if someone has tried making a wireless variant. The repo is https://github.com/beekeeb/piantor
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My Christmas gift arrived: Piantor Keyboard
More details about this amazing keyboard you can find over here Piantor keyboard
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How do I get started with KiCad for customizing an existing, open source layout?
Piantor – Pi Pico based
balbuzard
Posts with mentions or reviews of balbuzard.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-26.
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Keyboards with pinkie clusters
(The Balbuzzard and Osprette are also interesting, but I think I wanna stay with a split keeb for now)
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Keyboard for crooked fingers?
move top pinky key out and down – Azimuth, Balbuzard, Osprette
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How do I get started with KiCad for customizing an existing, open source layout?
Balbuzard – more angle
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[GB] Announcing the Opsrette Group Buy! (From Today until Halloween)
I've personally been using 36 or fewer keys for at least half a year now, and have always enjoyed the comfort provided by the minimalism of 5 column keebs. However, no matter how far the pinkies go down (whether Corne or Ferris pinky stagger), it seems that I can't quite reach all of the pinky keys without having to move my whole arm with the pinky to reach the top row. By taking inspiration from Brow's Balbuzard, I found that moving the pinkies to the unused 6th column combined with choc spacing means that every single key was now within comfortable reach without having to give up the 30 key alpha layer that most modern keyboards maintain (read: the alpha keys with comma and whatnot).
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I stood my trackpad upright to keep it closer at hand
This guy: https://github.com/brow/balbuzard
What are some alternatives?
When comparing piantor and balbuzard you can also consider the following projects:
cantor - Cantor keyboard, a 42 key diodeless split keyboard.
osprette - 34-key unibody keyboard with pinky clusters
crkbd - Corne keyboard, a split keyboard with 3x6 column staggered keys and 3 thumb keys.
Wubbo - 34-key split keyboard with pinky cluster
jorne - Jorne is an extended Corne keyboard with extra keys for brackets and international layouts
TOTEM - TOTEM is a 38 keys column-staggered split keyboard. It meant to be used with a SEEED XIAO BLE or RP2040
sephirette - 34-key split keyboard with pinky clusters
zmk - ZMK Firmware Repository
palac - Palac Ortholinear 5x6+1 split keyboard