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)
vial-gui
Vial is an open-source cross-platform (Windows, Linux and Mac) GUI and a QMK fork for configuring your keyboard in real time. (by vial-kb)
| piantor | vial-gui | |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 95 | |
| 525 | 830 | |
| 7.0% | 2.8% | |
| 4.0 | 5.6 | |
| 7 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Python | ||
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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
vial-gui
Posts with mentions or reviews of vial-gui.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-14.
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QMK and Keyboards
> made the customization much more comfy, without the need of recompile the fw
Get someone to write a profile for https://get.vial.today/ support.
> add a damn service to print easily custom keycaps
https://www.wasdkeyboards.com/custom-text-cherry-mx-keycaps....
> please STOP making cherry, OSA etc profiles
They are making them because people keep buying them. Turns out most people actually like typing on them.
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Keychron K3 Pro Random Power Off and Via Reset?
Less drastic than reflashing could be to reset to factory defaults. Note that this will wipe out any Via/Vial configuration and other configuration (e.g., RGB mode, RGB colour settings, and NKRO setting).
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Per-key RGB lighting K3 pro
At all possible? Yes, but probably not from Via. I don't know about Vial (it requires special versions of the keyboard firmware).
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The ScottoStarter handwired keyboard
This is the second one I’ve built but it’s for someone else, this is too many keys for me lol. The case is printed in a super nice matte green then it uses Boba U4Ts that sound and feel super nice. The keycaps are just a placeholder while I test the board, I’m certain they’ll put something that matches. The board is fully compatible with Vial and runs on a USB-C Pro Micro.
- I met a reddit user IRL
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Double tap to lock fn key? Is this possible using via? K8 Pro
VIA doesn't have any support for configuring tap-dances, nor does the QMK Configurator. Your two options are either using VIAL https://get.vial.today/. Or utilizing the feature directly in QMK source code https://docs.qmk.fm/#/feature_tap_dance.
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Can't figure out how to configure Megalodon Triple-Knob Macro Pad
This firmware update will make it compatible with open source software called Vial... https://get.vial.today/
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Different key when tapping/holding with VIA?
This was my exact scenario, and I ended up flashing my keyboard with Vial QMK. It’s a Via-like interface that allows you to edit additional QMK settings like the tap-hold timings.
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[HELP] New Ergodash Troubleshooting.
resources I've tried: https://docs.qmk.fm/#/newbs_getting_started https://get.vial.today/
- Mechanical keyboard stops inputting characters after unplugging and replugging
What are some alternatives?
When comparing piantor and vial-gui you can also consider the following projects:
cantor - Cantor keyboard, a 42 key diodeless split keyboard.
zmk - ZMK Firmware Repository
crkbd - Corne keyboard, a split keyboard with 3x6 column staggered keys and 3 thumb keys.
zmk-config
jorne - Jorne is an extended Corne keyboard with extra keys for brackets and international layouts
vial-qmk - QMK fork with Vial-specific features.
TOTEM - TOTEM is a 38 keys column-staggered split keyboard. It meant to be used with a SEEED XIAO BLE or RP2040
miryoku - Miryoku is an ergonomic, minimal, orthogonal, and universal keyboard layout.
qmk_firmware - Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
palac - Palac Ortholinear 5x6+1 split keyboard
qmk_configurator - The QMK Configurator