QMK and Keyboards

• qmk_firmware

  1,587 17,079 10.0 C

  Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families

  

The downside to ZMK is no copyleft protection. So when you buy a keyboard that advertises "ZMK", you're getting a binary blob you can't customize or audit.

OTOH, QMK has successfully forced-open proprietary keyboards that were sold with QMK forks -- including the awesome non-Bluetooth 1000hz 2.4ghz Nordic Semiconductor wireless feature!

https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/pull/21949#issuecomment-...

Copyleft works.

• vial-gui

  95 819 5.6 Python

  Vial is an open-source cross-platform (Windows, Linux and Mac) GUI and a QMK fork for configuring your keyboard in real time.

  

> 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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• kanata

  62 1,175 9.5 Rust

  Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization

Gotta give a shoutout to kanata[1] which I have used daily for years at this point after giving up on QMK-powered keyboards.

QMK itself is great, but I was never able to find a non-columnar split ISO keyboard to use it with. Eventually I reluctantly settled on the Logitech K860[2] and I'm now happily using my favourite features from QMK with kanata at the software level.

[1]: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata

[2]: If I'm behind the times and there is now a QMK-compatible keyboard that looks like this, please let me know!

• Dactyl-It-Yourself-Editor

  6 139 0.0 OpenSCAD

  Design your dream keyboard

But I've been building keebs for a few years now, and I gotta cut back :-P The biggest issue is it takes forever to print a shell to 'test fit' it. It would actually be cool if you could print the shells upside down so you don't have to print the whole thing to see how it feels.

Oh! looks like there's a OpenSCAD parametric dactyl now (1) I think this was the clojure one I was playing with before: (2)

1: https://github.com/pseudoku/Dactyl-It-Yourself-Editor

2: https://github.com/l4u/dactyl-manuform-mini-keyboard

• dactyl-manuform-mini-keyboard

  15 266 0.0 Clojure

But I've been building keebs for a few years now, and I gotta cut back :-P The biggest issue is it takes forever to print a shell to 'test fit' it. It would actually be cool if you could print the shells upside down so you don't have to print the whole thing to see how it feels.

Oh! looks like there's a OpenSCAD parametric dactyl now (1) I think this was the clojure one I was playing with before: (2)

1: https://github.com/pseudoku/Dactyl-It-Yourself-Editor

2: https://github.com/l4u/dactyl-manuform-mini-keyboard

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