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)
hillside
Family of split ergonomic keyboards with three rows of five or six keys, aggressive column stagger, generous thumb arc and optional bottom utility keys (by mmccoyd)
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| 4.0 | 2.2 | |
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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
hillside
Posts with mentions or reviews of hillside.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-05.
- Hotswap sockets for hillside
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ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard
Only two thumb keys seems like it could be a pain. I don't love trying to figure out the timing delays for tap vs hold. After a long search I settled on the Hillside 46 [1][2] which has 4 thumb keys and a splayed layout. Also choc spacing, as I didn't love the gaps between choc keycaps with mx spacing. Not sure why, as the macbook pro keyboard doesn't seem to give me any problems.
I like the all the case options and mods available to the ZSA keyboards. The biggest problem with building your own I feel is the cost of getting a nice, solid feeling case.
[1] https://github.com/mmccoyd/hillside/tree/main/hillside46
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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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How do I go about acquiring a pre-built Swept Corne?
I don’t have personal experience no. If you want to compare, here is a image of the key location: https://github.com/mmccoyd/hillside/blob/main/hillside46/doc/image/hill46_keys.png others exist for the other sizes in similar places. You can print this out, making sure you size so that the keys are properly spaced, and then compare that way
- Looking at Kyria or Hillside as a developer. Any suggestions?
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Which open source split keyboard do you suggest for Colemak Mod-DH?
hillside
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Split low profile with ctrl key
the first thing that pops into my head is something like the Hillside 52/56?
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[request] Looking for Ortho-split-kbd somewhere between an ergodox and a corne.
I'd recommend a Hillside. If you're not into the splay, there's the 48 and the 56. https://github.com/mmccoyd/hillside
- My Kyria with Robins and my wireless Hillside with Burnt Oranges
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Any reccomendations for corne-like board with another key in thumb cluster? Also here is bongocat
Hillside ? https://github.com/mmccoyd/hillside
What are some alternatives?
When comparing piantor and hillside you can also consider the following projects:
cantor - Cantor keyboard, a 42 key diodeless split keyboard.
nyx-kb - Nyx low-profile split ergonomic keyboard
crkbd - Corne keyboard, a split keyboard with 3x6 column staggered keys and 3 thumb keys.
Dactyl-It-Yourself-Editor - Design your dream keyboard
jorne - Jorne is an extended Corne keyboard with extra keys for brackets and international layouts
elephant42 - hardware of elephant42 keyboard
TOTEM - TOTEM is a 38 keys column-staggered split keyboard. It meant to be used with a SEEED XIAO BLE or RP2040
zmk - ZMK Firmware Repository
chocofi - Split 36-key keyboard
palac - Palac Ortholinear 5x6+1 split keyboard
qmk-crkbd-vscode-builder - Build scripts for crkbd keymap + vscode macros