Posts tagged: keeb Archive

Caps Review With Individual Key Override

2026-08-09T21:57:18Z

caps review with individual key override

Comparing Depth Of Color In Esc Keys

2026-08-09T20:28:27Z

Running some test prints on keycaps using some different fonts, the group on the left(top) was done first with .4mm depth and the right(bottom) was done with a 2mm depth, the colors came out much more vibrant without the black blending in.

Mid Print On A New Set Of Caps

2026-08-09T18:41:14Z

The ledends were cut quite a bit deeper in this set I think the color is going to come out much more vibrant

First Set Of Caps Printed From Caps.waylonwalker.com

2026-08-09T17:33:49Z

This first set of caps printed for real off my new https://caps.waylonwalker.com app came out really well, I can tell the legend cut is not deep enough and the two colors are mixing too much. I’m actually surprised at how much I like the thinner sets better than the thicker sets, I thought thicker would have done better prints.

Caps Got Good Adhesion

2026-08-09T15:43:44Z

No raft straight on the bed with a .4mm sink into the plate stuck really well, none fell off mid print. I’ve strugged to get grids of caps to print well in the past.

Caps App Is Working

2026-08-09T08:46:06Z

caps app is working

First iteration of the caps app is working, I cannot believe it.

Nibelungenlied40 | Book Split Keyboard Design

2026-06-24T18:53:11Z

reddit.com

Absolute whimsy achieved in this book themed #keeb build!

T Handle Wire Puller

2026-06-21T15:54:42Z

I’ve been fighting not having a proper pick/hook in my toolbox for a long time. This fathers day weekend my son pulled out an old box of rc plane supplies from my days trying to build planes like flight test. Inside there was a pack of piano wire.

Rules-8

Need a tool make a tool.

He had pulled this out while I had the soldering iron hot plucking away at a keeb build that I’ve had sitting idle on the workbench for a long time. The dream of having several identical working builds at the same time is very close to fruition, I just need some more work on the clone.

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I was struggling to pull wires through traces of 3d prints. You see I was once a mechanical engineer, not electrical, so 3d modeling is my hammer that I can turn into a tool for any solution, and I’ve just not put the time into learning pcb design. Someday maybe. I always just take some scrap copper make a little look and twist it around until I can get it close enough to pull with some tweezers.

As he has this box out and I see the piano wire, its the perfect stiff wire to use for the job. only its so thick it doesn’t even fit down inside the traces. But after a bit of filing bending a hook and handle its proving to be a useful tool in the handwired keyboard toolbelt.

T Handle Wire Puller, with just the right hook on the end, and filed down just thin enough to slip in and grab wire.

Notice I gave the hook a bit of paint, Not only does this make it easier to find, but it signifies, this is my tool, its not just a random bit of wire, its something that someone put some time and care into.

T Handle Wire Puller in Action, sliding in to grab some fresh copper.

Its working great so far with zero signs of benging, the piano wire is really hard to get bent in and out of shape unlike the soft copper wire I was using out of convenience.

T Handle Wire Puller In Action

2026-06-21T15:04:13Z

T Handle Wire Puller in Action, sliding in to grab some fresh copper.

T Handle Wire Puller

2026-06-21T15:02:11Z

T Handle Wire Puller, with just the right hook on the end, and filed down just thin enough to slip in and grab wire.

Desk Setup with Keepsakes and Tools

2026-04-28T17:17:02Z

A cozy blend of work tools and thoughtful mementos, reminding me of good people and moments.

3x3-3 Gaming Keeb Complete

2026-04-05T19:09:05Z

freshly built gaming keyboard for @wyatt sitting on my desk

move zmk keyboard to new bluetooth adapter

2026-03-23T17:59:59Z

I’ve been having issue with my keyboard disconnecting to my main desktop for awhile. Today I got a cheap bluetooh dongle in and am giving it a run this week to see how things go. The first step was to move it to the new adapter. I’ve never had multiple adapters installed so this was a new to me process.

I was able to do it all with the same keyboard, It did require some juggling between usb and bluetooth modes pluging and unplugging, two keyboards would be simpler to reason about.

I can’t be bothered to change my brain to think about this machine on a different zmk profile it is of absolute importance for it to remain on the same profile, otherwise this would be a simple bind to another empty profile.

Why not use a cable on desktop?

I dont mind cable, and have used one on this setup for years, but I have actually been picking up and moving this keyboard and using it with different devices.

I’ve got a big battery and performace cranked up, unless my machine is under load I do not notice any key lag.

I did it with bluetoothctl, I’m sure it could have been done with a gui like blueberry or blueman.

bluetoothctl
# list adapters
list
select <old-adapter>
devices
# fin the MAC address of the device 42BLOCK
remove <42BLOCK_MAC>

Now I plugged into usb. And importantly cleared out the zmk profile. If you do not clear the profile your board does not go into pairing mode.

bluetoothctl
# switch adapters
select <new-adapter>
power on
agent on
default-agent
scan on
Put 42Block in pairing mode, then:
pair <42BLOCK_MAC>
trust <42BLOCK_MAC>

At this pint I saw this show up in the logs, I think there was some masking issues or something in zmk, output kept going out usb no matter what so I disconnected the keyboard and typed the passkey in, and it worked.

[agent] Passkey: 540044

Boom, it just started working right away.

bluetoothctl
connect <42BLOCK_MAC>
info <42BLOCK_MAC>
scan off
exit

A Gaming Keyboard

2026-03-05T00:00:00Z

Requirements #

Minecraft
Terraria
SilkSong

3x6 layout #

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│    │    │    │    │    │    │
├────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┤
│    │    │    │    │    │    │
├────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┤
│    │    │    │    │    │    │
╰────┴────┴────┴────┼────┼────┼────╮
                    │    │    │    │
                    ╰────┴────┴────╯

image

Naya Connect | Hackaday

2026-02-13T03:39:21Z

Naya Connect – Hackaday

Hackaday · hackaday.com

The idea of adjustable key caps to mutate your board into something that really fits you, how you type, how your fingers move, is an absolute banger.

Gradient Keycap Results

2026-02-07T19:55:55Z

The gradient keycaps turned out pretty good, but I’m not sure what I did wrong with the interface between the raft and the caps, that came out very rough, but the effect works.

Gradient Keycaps In Bambu Studio

2026-02-06T19:53:05Z

I have an idea for gradient keycaps using tri colored filliment, I’m excited to see how it turns out.

What is that

2026-01-15T19:22:47Z

I was unironically asked what is that about my keeb today. Followed by no way that works, how would you type a, s, y, u, after showing, I go the “that’s weird” walk away.

I'm Loving These Akko Creamy Yellow V3s

2026-01-04T16:22:35Z

my latest porta john full mx build with Akko Creamy Yellow V3s installed on the right side and a hodge podge of Durock Lupine and kaihl browns on the left.

A collection of custom mechanical keyboard keycaps, including several sets of purple, white, and other colored keycaps, are arranged on a wooden desk surface

2026-01-03T18:07:29Z

A collection of custom mechanical keyboard keycaps, including several sets of purple, white, and other colored keycaps, are arranged on a wooden desk surface.

new keeb so good

2026-01-03T00:00:00Z

New keeb feeling so good I don’t want to leave it. I’m going to go from having my worse favorite at work, to having my new favorite at work.

Portajohn3 Keyboard Plate

2026-01-01T17:18:39Z

A black keyboard plate with multiple switch sockets, awaiting switches and PCB.

Custom Keyboard Keycaps and 3D Printer

2025-12-29T22:16:37Z

Portajohn3 getting printed on a bambu lab A1 printer

my home row

2025-12-05T00:00:00Z

My home row layout. It’s not quite home row mods.

https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/fd74f80e-ff5e-4548-8419-bd407144bb6c.excalidraw

Kubernetes-Inspired Keycap Test Print

2025-09-24T18:48:48Z

This test print features a custom keycap designed with a Kubernetes logo.

A Full Cheese Board

2025-09-20T20:02:58Z

A macropad filled with cheese keycaps placed in random orientations.

Full Box Of Cheese Caps

2025-09-20T20:00:00Z

A full box of 9 keycaps sit behind a cap placed in front, they are custom wedge of cheese caps.

Cheese Cap On A Macropad

2025-09-20T19:57:12Z

A cheese keycap placed in the middle of a macropad, currounded by black/purple caps in a blue case.

First Box Of Caps

2025-09-18T19:51:18Z

A print in place box sitting on the printer bed used as a raft for the 9 caps perectly nestled inside in a 3 by 3 pattern.

Cut Away Keycap Down

2025-08-30T16:28:16Z

A cut away keycap on a Durock lupine switched pressed all the way to bottom out.

Cutaway Key Cap Up

2025-08-30T16:27:22Z

A cutaway keycap sitting on a durock lupine switch

Freshly Cut Keycap Cut Away

2025-08-30T16:26:22Z

A keycap glued to a 2x4 freshly turned into a cut away keykap.

My Keyboard Has Sublayers… and It’s Insane - YouTube

2025-05-29T18:04:50Z

linkarzu has a way to navigate his entire mac using a hyper key. Everything looks so tight and polished, also a lot to remember! Lucky he has a system of mnemonics that make it easy to remember. His setup is very Mac focused using mac only apps, so this would not work for me, though I’m sure I could get something similar on linux. He did mention Kanata which is cross platform.

What I do #

I use a far different system that is fast loose and easy. On every system I run I have 9 workspaces that let me put 9 applications, I can easily move apps to different workspaces and have a side by side if I need. The core of what I do is terminal, web browser, and chat. Those go on workspaces 4,5,6, whch are home-row keys. If I’m running obs, that is on 8, steam goes on 1. but I have some freedom to move. Sometimes 2 will be an image editor or a video editor, sometimes something else all together, but I can quickly go to each app.

What I like from Linkazru #

I do like his layered approach. I run a 42 key keyboard so things can get a bit cramped quickly. And when thinking in mnemonics you only get 26 letters in the alphabet, but prefixing these with another layer this number goes up exponentially. Sublayers sound sick to be honest.

hollow knight home row layout

2025-05-05T20:44:36Z

I just made it past 100% in my main hollow knight run, so now I will allow myself to get silksong when it comes out. I did this with a little bit of YT guidance, but mostly just figuring it out. I only just discovered the ⭐ ReznoRMichael hollow-knight-completion-check which got me an extra 2% for a few items I must have got and not saved on, because I was sure I had them.

Controller #

Hollow Knight is a game that can be played with keyboard or controller, You can use analog stick for movements, but they just translate to dpad, there really are no analog moves in the game. This makes it ripe for playing on pure keyboard. I really favor controller when there are more than one analog (throttle, brake, steering for example).

On controller I’ve switched to only using d-pad as I feel like it gives me the most crisp of controls. It is really easy to miss a pogo on analog by hitting slightly left or right.

My Keyboard #

My daily driver keyboard is a custom built 40% monoblock keyboard I absolutely love using it, it perfectly plops down on a laptop when I am in laptop mode and really fits me quite well for my wrok as a software/infrastructure engineer.

WASD #

We’ve got to talk about pinky stagger

I can use wasd perfectly fine on it, I have a layer that has no holds on any keys so that they are all nice and crisp and tailored to gaming operations that would require a hold.

Now what I haven’t ran into before is that trying to game with wasd and use the right side is very uncomfortable with this steep of a pinky stagger. Generally with keyboard an mouse games I have the keyboard a little slanted and move my fingers to wasd just fine, but it just does not work well with both hands on the keyboard.

Enter asdf #

Today is day one, I’m not quite sure how long it will last, but I am giving asdf a try for arrow keys. This will work much more akin to a fight stick where each finger has a primary direction instead of using one finger for both up and down.

vim keys, but mirrored

I chose to mirror vim keys with down towards the middle.  I had it the other

way, but when I played, I kept pressing it the other way.

a - left
s - up
d - down
f - right

power keys

I wanted to put the most common keys on the strongest finger (feels like

left pinky breaks this mantra, but whatever).

j - attack
k - dash
l - focus/cast
h - quick cast
e - inventory
u - super dash
m - map
g - dream nail

This seems weird #

So Ya, I know it’s weird. I did some searching wasn’t able to find much other than this one reddit post talking about using asdf. oddly one person reccommended sdfg, this souds so much like vim, which makes a lot of sense, but brings back moving fingers off of home row position or using one finger for down and right, which aint gonna work.

First thoughts #

I’m about 20 minutes in and struggling on False Knight, I could be a bit more patient, but I’m trying to work on pogos on all the mobs on the way in.

Holding up or down #

The ability to just hold up or down as you run through the map with enemies coming from above or below feels superior, and its going to be nice, I really just got to put some time in to get use to the layout, maybe even make some changes.

I realize now that Hollow Knight rarely needs quick swiching between up and down and would probably be fine on a wasd layout if i were to be using a split keyboard or a bit less pinky stagger that would work out, but for now I am giving this a shot.

My Son’s experience #

So my son is playing along with me, new save as well. He went with wasd and mouse, while this sounds insane to me to use mouse for clicking and no movement the natural feel that it has, has him blazing through faster than he does on controller, doing pogos he’s never done before.

False Knight down #

The recording somehow stuck on the menu screen and did not record video, but I got this screenshot of the victory.

Vengeful Spirit #

Day 2 I managed to make it to the Ancestral Mound and get the Vengeful Spirit cast. Everything is starting to feel much better and more natural. Surprisingly my main issue is with up and down since they are used a bit less, left with my pinky has not been any issue.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-vengeful-spirit.mp4

Hornet Battle 1 #

I made it successfully through the first hornet battle I was able to snag this clip of a few nicely timed pogos. Its getting better, I am still really struggling between down srike and up strike.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-hornet-pogos.mp4

Mothwing Cloak #

I got so lucky with the finish of hornet, I thought she hit me while healing, kinda lost where we were tanked a hit and almost took one last hit again and beat her to the final punch.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-hornet-finish.mp4

Gruz Mother #

After completing gruz mother I went to grab my macropad to click the clip button when her babies came out, and it was at this moment my son told me I was done for, there was no recovering from this. I was already at 2 hearts, and a mistake left me with one. You can see me fumble for the up key in the clip as I get repositioned fully on back on the board.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-gruz-mother.mp4

Now we have Sly the merchant unlocked and can buy items from him.

City #

I made it to the city, but on my way, it looks like one of the smokey layers were getting put on top of the game instead of layer in behind. I’ve never seen this, so I really have no idea what it is. During the thorny area it was in and out and right as I entered the city it locked on top and did not leave.

Soul Master #

I made my way over to the soul master, dying several times along the way to a few Soul Twisters, its time to battle.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-soul-meeting-master.mp4

After beating his second room, (this clip makes him look way too easy as he wasn’t targeting me fore some reason at the end), I picked up desolate dive, which brings a new key combo to get familiar with down+cast.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-soul-master-finish.mp4

Moss Knight #

I took a break for awhile on the game, my son got bored and moved on. He tends to switch out games a lot faster than me. I came back to it tonight after a few months off and just got some geo from the moss knights for awhile. I got this decent clip of clearing them, I’m no pro, but getting better at timing on the keeb layout.

hollow-knight-keeb-moss-knight.mp4

Lumafly Lantern #

While I had a lot of geo from the Moss Knights I finished out getting 1800 geo to get the lumafly lantern from sly’s shop at dirtmouth.

hollow-knight-keeb-lumafly-lantern.mp4

Royal Waterway #

I decided to head back to the city of tears and into the royal waterway to fight the dung defender and collect Isma’s tear.

hollow-knight-keeb-royal-waterway-unlock.mp4

hollow-knight-keeb-royal-waterway-entering.mp4

hollow-knight-keeb-royal-waterway-bench.mp4

The Dung Defender battle, great lore with this guy, lots of bouncy movement, but overall not too hard of a boss. He is not very accurate with attacks, so you have time to just sit in the corners and heal.

hollow-knight-keeb-dung-defender.mp4

Once the Dung Defender was defeated, I continued on up to the Kings Station and unlocked it.

hollow-knight-keeb-kings-station.mp4

I could not remember where ismas tear was and I ended up all the way down in deep nest, the climb out is a bit of a challenge, here I am going right by the route you take with crystal dash to get isma’s tear.

climbing-out-of-deep-nest.mp4

Isma’s Tear #

I managed to find my way through the royal waterway and where you crystal dash over to isma’s tear. This battle took two attempts, because the first I had no health left and walked in with two masks.

hollow-knight-keeb-ismas-tear-battle.mp4

Now the tear coats our shell and allows us to swim through the acid, and we can get a lot more places, and some places are just easier to get without precision parkour over the acid.

hollow-knight-keeb-ismas-tear.mp4

Thorny Mask #

I wandered around the world a bit today and found a few small items, nothing of major concequence.

hollow-knight-keeb-thorny-mask-shard.mp4 hollow-knight-keeb-spore-shroom.mp4 hollow-knight-keeb-thorny-wanderers-journal.mp4

Challenging Mantis Lords #

It felt like time to challenge the Mantis Lords. For the reason to prove to myself that I am getting better at this layout.

I drew my nail and ready for the challenge.

hollow-knight-keeb-challenging-mantis-lords.mp4

First try I made it past the first one, and deep into the second one, I think If I would have remembered the healing window for them I would have had a shot at a first try on them.

hollow-knight-keeb-mantis-lords-1.mp4

After three tries I had it. Maybe its not apples to apples with my first ever run years ago on steam deck, but it took months. I would have about 20 minutes a day waiting for kids pickup at school and I would just keep grinding at them for what added up to be likely several hours.

hollow-knight-keeb-defeating-mantis-lords.mp4

After defeating them I’m let into the treasure room where I get a bench, Hallownest seal, a big loot box, and the mark of pride. This is actually one of my favorite charms as it gives you an extra 25% range to your nail attacks. This opens up the window for pogos and reach attacks without taking damage.

hollow-knight-keeb-mark-of-pride.mp4

My Firs Keycaps with Symbols

2024-11-25T08:03:39Z

Finally got my first set of keycaps with letters! These low-profile keys look perfect for customizing my keyboard setup.

First Self-Designed Keycaps and Symbols

2024-11-25T06:59:13Z

These are more keycaps from my very first set that I designed and printed myself. Some of the symbols are a little wonky, and a few were too thin to print cleanly.

My First Printed Keycaps Are Here

2024-11-25T06:57:42Z

Completing my first batch of keycaps designed and printed entirely by myself on the Bambu Lab A1.

Modular Input Device on Wood

2024-09-30T08:13:30Z

Here you can see quite the size difference between the original portajohn1 and the low profile portajohn2.

New-caps-for-porta-john

2024-08-05T19:06:00Z

Today I dropped some new caps in the porta-john. I need to do a bunch of posts on zmk and my journey building the porta-john, I’ve been rocking it for at least two weeks now pretty solid and I am absolutely loving it. More on that later.

KLP-Lame-Keycaps #

The model of the caps are KLP-Lame by braindefender , they are super rounded and smooth. They look really good on camera and feel good to the finders.

I printed these at home on my ender3 s1 pro with a black and purple silk filliment. I printed all 42 at once using a Printing 42 keys at once technique. They do have just a bit of a rough texture that you can feel on your figertips. I printed these on super quality .12mm layer height, while my last set was printed on draft quality .32mm layer height. They look crazy different in print quality with the lines of the new caps barely showing, the feel isn’t nearly as drastic.

The Result #

Check out the final shots as I set up the porta-john with these sweet caps.

And here they are all set up.

Full Disclosure #

I am building out a keyboard business, so if you are interested in getting some of these caps for yourself or an entire board custom made to your liking hit me up. If you’re not quite ready, I would be stoked if you keep in touch by sigining up for the email newsletter https://ticklemykeys.com.

Printing 42 keys at once

2024-08-03T09:54:00Z

I’m working on creating some gcode to create a whole set of key caps in one print, it is getting tedious to print them one at a time, and my past experience with my printer proves that printing a bunch of separate pieces increases the chances of failure. I don’t want to end up with 42 keys that are half done and a ball of filament.

figuring out the coordinates #

To figure out the coordinates I printed one key cap, and manually jogged the printer in position to knock off the cap, then sweep it out of the way.

print head in position to knock

Position before the knock

Position after the sweep

gcode #

I opened the gcode split it into start.gcode, end.gcode, and part.gcode.

start.gcode #

;FLAVOR:Marlin
;TIME:1488
;Filament used: 0.265511m
;Layer height: 0.12
;MINX:105.708
;MINY:101.231
;MINZ:0.12
;MAXX:113.512
;MAXY:118.776
;MAXZ:17.04
;TARGET_MACHINE.NAME:Creality Ender-3 S1 Pro
;Generated with Cura_SteamEngine 5.8.0
M82 ;absolute extrusion mode
; Ender 3 S1 Pro Start G-code
; M413 S0 ; Disable power loss recovery
G92 E0 ; Reset Extruder

; Prep surfaces before auto home for better accuracy
M140 S60
M104 S200

G28 ; Home all axes
G1 Z10.0 F3000 ; Move Z Axis up little to prevent scratching of Heat Bed
G1 X0 Y0

M190 S60
M109 S200

M82 ;absolute extrusion mode
; Ender 3 S1 Pro Start G-code
; M413 S0 ; Disable power loss recovery
G92 E0 ; Reset Extruder

; Prep surfaces before auto home for better accuracy
M140 S60
M104 S200

G28 ; Home all axes
G1 Z10.0 F3000 ; Move Z Axis up little to prevent scratching of Heat Bed
G1 X0 Y0

M190 S60
M109 S200

G1 X0.1 Y20 Z0.3 F5000.0 ; Move to start position
G1 X0.1 Y200.0 Z0.3 F1500.0 E15 ; Draw the first line
G1 X0.4 Y200.0 Z0.3 F5000.0 ; Move to side a little
G1 X0.4 Y20 Z0.3 F1500.0 E30 ; Draw the second line

end.gcode #

M140 S0 ; Turn off bed
M107 ; Turn off fan
G91 ;Relative positioning
G1 E-2 F2700 ;Retract a bit
G1 E-2 Z0.2 F2400 ;Retract and raise Z
G1 X5 Y5 F3000 ;Wipe out
G1 Z10 ;Raise Z more
G90 ;Absolute positioning

G1 X0 Y220 ;Present print
M106 S0 ;Turn-off fan
M104 S0 ;Turn-off hotend
M140 S0 ;Turn-off bed

M84 X Y E ;Disable all steppers but Z

M82 ;absolute extrusion mode
M104 S0
;End of Gcode
;SETTING_3 {"global_quality": "[general]\\nversion = 4\\nname = Super Quality #2
;SETTING_3 \\ndefinition = creality_ender3s1pro\\n\\n[metadata]\\ntype = quality
;SETTING_3 _changes\\nquality_type = super\\nsetting_version = 23\\n\\n[values]\
;SETTING_3 \nadhesion_type = none\\nsupport_type = buildplate\\n\\n", "extruder_
;SETTING_3 quality": ["[general]\\nversion = 4\\nname = Super Quality #2\\ndefin
;SETTING_3 ition = creality_ender3s1pro\\n\\n[metadata]\\ntype = quality_changes
;SETTING_3 \\nquality_type = super\\nsetting_version = 23\\nposition = 0\\n\\n[v
;SETTING_3 alues]\\nbrim_gap = 0.1\\nspeed_print = 120\\nsupport_angle = 35\\nz_
;SETTING_3 seam_corner = z_seam_corner_inner\\nz_seam_position = right\\n\\n"]}

part.gcode #

Now part.gcode is the rest of the gcode, and is 22k lines long, I’ll spare putting that in this post.

Writing the knock and sweep #

Now that I have the coordinates, and my gcode split up, I am going to write the code for the knock and sweep by hand, and just add this to the end of part.gcode.

; KNOCK AND SWEEP
G0 X80 Y140 ; move to knock position
G0 Z2 ; lower z to knock
G0 X140 ; knock
G0 Y40 ; sweep

A python script to make multiples #

Now I wrote this python script to generate a gcode file to print n number of caps

from pathlib import Path
import sys

n = int(sys.argv[1])
print("printing " + str(n) + " times")


start = Path("start.gcode").read_text()
end = Path("end.gcode").read_text()
part = Path("part.gcode").read_text()

full = start + part * n + end
Path("kp-lame-normal-" + str(n) + ".gcode").write_text(full)

python render.py 42

Results #

The final result here is me printing out 42 new caps in this beautiful black and purple silk fillament.

knock-and-sweep.mp4

The Portajohn Monoblock Keyboard Design

2024-07-15T16:36:57Z

Check out the Portajohn! This custom 42-key monoblock was my first full keyboard build, designed to plop on a laptop, while still exposing the trackpad and able to flip over and toss in a backpack.

Laying some wire in PortaJohn 1

2024-07-13T11:03:27Z

Close-up view of a barebones custom mechanical keyboard plate and PCB.

Laying down the first test print of a portajohn on a laptop

2024-07-13T10:54:02Z

A setup featuring an open laptop running Ubuntu next to a detached, custom mechanical keyboard.

Alternatives · joric/nrfmicro Wiki

2024-07-01T19:48:16Z

Alternatives

A Pro Micro alternative for wireless keyboards. Contribute to joric/nrfmicro development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub · github.com

Huge list of micro controllers tried and used in keeb builds.

Found: OverlayKey X – Thomas Baart's Microblog

2024-06-28T23:35:52Z

Found: OverlayKey X

Thomas Baart's Microblog · micro.thomasbaart.nl

This is almost exactly what I have been thinking about building for quite awhile. I am going to give it a good try with a few $$ in filiment some cheap switches a microcontroller and go pretty bare bones, maybe open wiring on the bottom.

qmk_firmware/docs/features/programmable_button.md at master · ...

2024-06-26T06:19:41Z

Interesting, linux supports 32 programmable buttons, special buttons that do nothing that hotkey programs like xbindkeys can pick up and run things, seems like it would be very intersting to use on a macro pad. You could easily do dynamic and complex tasks without clashing that keybinding with something else.

I’m going to look into this for my next obs setup. No matter what I try to do with the hyper key it always tends to do odd things depending on the application I am in. typically its tmux, and it starts trying to do something I don’t want it to.

Steam Deck dock

2024-06-06T22:25:14Z

This is a sick steam deck dock! With a corne built in laptop style.

Keebmaker Corne on Leather Palm Rest

2023-12-14T15:35:10Z

This leather-topped palm rest was the final home for my keebmaker Corne, perfectly positioning the mouse right in the middle for optimal ergonomics.

New Black Corne with purple glow

2021-06-23T13:04:53Z

These kaihl browns, loving them. This is going to be a trip to get used to, I thought typing on a column stagger layout would be hard to get used to, nope, its the symbols, that 4th layer is hard to get rid of.

My experience with a new 3dkeeb corne

2021-06-21T14:27:19Z

specs #

first days typing #

first days working #

What did I sign myself up for? If the lower typing speed with alpha characters was not enough throw in special characters and keybings I setup long ago and only remember by muscle memory. I have so far killed my tmux pane instead of zooming in (m-x instead of m-z), killed my zsh line instead of paste to the end of a command (c-c instead of c-v).

VIA #

LT(1, KC_ENT)
LT(1, KC_TAB)
LT(1, KC_SHIFT)

MT(MOD_RSHFT, KC_ESC)
MT(MOD_HYPR, KC_GESC)

setting up qmk cli #

conda create -n qmk python=3.8 -y

qmk config compile.keyboard=crkbd/rev1 compile.keymap=default
qmk config user.keyboard=crkbd/rev1 user.keymap=default

# This will clone into ~/qmk_firmware
# you can change this behavior by setting QMK_HOME
# export QMK_HOME=~/custo_qmk_home_dir
qmk setup

# qmk setup took 10 minutes on my machine with wsl over a mobile network

qmk setup
ImportError: Unable to load any of the following libraries:libhidapi-hidraw.so libhidapi-hidraw.so.0 libhidapi-libusb.so libhidapi-libusb.so.0 libhidapi-iohidmanager.so libhidapi-iohidmanager.so.0 libhidapi.dylib hidapi.dll libhidapi-0.dll

pip install hidapi
sudo apt-get install python-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libudev-dev
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libudev-dev
qmk setup
# https://pypi.org/project/hid/
apt install libhidapi-hidraw0
qmk setup
sudo apt-get install avrdude

inspiration #

https://github.com/markstos/qmk_firmware/tree/markstos/keyboards/crkbd/keymaps/markstos