System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code

• launch

  25 1,373 5.9 Shell

  System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard

  

I am the only one that is very ill-at-ease with that PCB [1]? The routing seems.. off? No straight trace, irregular component placement. Its the kind of work where seemingly "superficial" concern like that are in fact quite usefull, a clean PCB makes it easier to find issues and do repairs.

[1]:https://github.com/system76/launch/blob/master/pcb/launch-pc...

• keyboard-configurator

  15 258 7.1 Rust

  Keyboard configuration UI

  

what is odd is that the keyboard configurator https://github.com/pop-os/keyboard-configurator references System76 laptops. Does that mean QMK will come to System76 laptops?

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• qmk_firmware

  5 1 0.0 C

  Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families (by 1MachineElf)

- open source design

I'm also a fan of two choices made with the layout. First, the split spacebars - it's better to give each thumb it's own job. Second, the minimization of modifier keys requiring stabilizers, because smooth consistent stabilizers are hard to get right.

[0] https://github.com/1MachineElf/qmk_firmware/tree/_sb4dv_refa...

• qmk_firmware

  10 90 0.0 C

  Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families (by system76)

  

Unfortunately, system76 developers added exactly that functionality to their firmware: https://github.com/system76/qmk_firmware/commit/a1ab70c3a28a...

So it is possible to reboot into the firmware update mode just by sending some bytes to the raw HID interface. Apparently they did not think about the security aspect of this feature.

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