samoklava VS qmk_firmware

Thanks! I should have been clear but I was talking about this project that's a fork of the main : https://github.com/soundmonster/samoklava

You might have to go down the path of making your own boards, I started off based on this: https://github.com/soundmonster/samoklava It's a good resource to minimize the amount of work you have to do on kicad

There’s only one autorouter that’s a) open source and b) known to work. It’s called FreeRouting. I’ve tried to adapt it for a GitHub workflow that takes an Ergogen YAML and outputs ready-for-fab PCB Gerber files. It doesn’t work perfectly for all use cases, so it’s probably worth double-checking the result with a DRC (design rule check) run in KiCad. Watch out for shorts and opens! 🤞

I used this Ergogen-based keyboard (samoklava), plus Chocorne's layout, as a basis for mine

There’s a board called ‘samoklava’ which is pretty corne-like , just with a bit wider thumb-splay and pinky-stagger https://github.com/soundmonster/samoklava

There is samoklava and rae-dux, and you can look through the layouts listed in this comparison tool for more. As for ones with a trackball, the Charybdis and its nano variant come to mind.

18 let half, wireless: https://github.com/soundmonster/samoklava

It's like completely generated and autorouted. Amazing. https://github.com/soundmonster/samoklava

I only use keyboards running QMK or ZMK, so:

My Caps Lock key is a Control/Escape key (when tapped it behave like a Escape, when hold it's Control), and my left Control is a one shot layer switch key [1], which means I tap LCtrl once, and then press Caps Lock + 5 to get Ctrl+F5. Doable with single hand and more ergonomic as I have an unusually small hand.

[1] https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/docs/one_sho...

I agree that reduced finger movement is a crucial step in achieving typing efficiency. This is nicely solved by mod tap modifiers in QMK/ZMK[1] where key acts as a char when tapped and as a layer while pressed.

[1]: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/docs/mod_tap...

Separate wireless controller, see the glue code at [0]

[0]: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/compare/master...nuphy-s...

If you have a keyboard that runs QMK firmware[0] with the VIA[1] feature enabled[2], then there is a convenient testing app available from the same place you customize your keys [3].

[0] https://qmk.fm/

I made a layout that I'm happy with. Spanish is my native language, so it has characters like the accents and 'ñ', but it's meant to be used for programming as well. Visual Studio uses a lot of Ctrl and Ctrl + Shift shortcuts, so I left them in the same place as the default Corne layout so I can press them both with my pinkie finger. Perhaps some of the ideas are useful to you.

Also, it would be possible to do this for the RP2040. However, it needs some work to get working. but for example: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/pull/20999

Ok, it's an ST7735, not too different from the ST7789. You should be able to get running by looking at their files in the QMK repo and going from there. You should also check their resources page.