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Freshly Cut Keycap Cut Away
A keycap glued to a 2x4 freshly turned into a cut away keykap.
šŸ’­ My Keyboard Has Sublayersā€¦ and Itā€™s Insane - YouTube www.youtube.com
- 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 Iā€™m sure I could get something similar on linux. He did mention Kanata which is cross platform. What I do # [1] 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 Iā€™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 # [2] 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...

hollow knight home row layout

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 ā­ ReznoRMichael hollow-knight-completion-check [1] 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 # [2] 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 Iā€™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 # [3] My daily driver keyboard is a custom built 40% monoblo...
My Firs Keycaps with Symbols
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
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
Completing my first batch of keycaps designed and printed entirely by myself on the Bambu Lab A1.
Modular Input Device on Wood
Comparing the thickness of the low profile portajohn2 to the portajohn1

New-caps-for-porta-john

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, Iā€™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 # [1] The model of the caps are KLP-Lame [2] by braindefender [3] , they are super rounded and smooth. They look really good on camera and feel good to the finders. [4] 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 [5] 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 isnā€™t nearly as drastic. The Result # [6] Check out the final shots as I set up the porta-john with these swee...

Printing 42 keys at once

Iā€™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 donā€™t want to end up with 42 keys that are half done and a ball of filament. figuring out the coordinates # [1] 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. [2] print head in position to knock [3] Position before the knock [4] Position after the sweep gcode # [5] I opened the gcode split it into start.gcode, end.gcode, and part.gcode. start.gcode # [6] ;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 ; End...
The Portajohn Monoblock Keyboard Design
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
Close-up view of a barebones custom mechanical keyboard plate and PCB.
Laying down the first test print of a portajohn on a laptop
A setup featuring an open laptop running Ubuntu next to a detached, custom mechanical keyboard.
šŸ’­ Alternatives Ā· joric/nrfmicro Wiki github.com
Alternatives A Pro Micro alternative for wireless keyboards. Contribute to joric/nrfmicro development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub Ā· github.com [1] Huge list of micro controllers tried and used in keeb builds. Note This post is a thought [2]. Itā€™s a short note that I make about someone elseā€™s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://github.com/joric/nrfmicro/wiki/Alternatives [2]: /thoughts/
šŸ’­ Found: OverlayKey X ā€“ Thomas Baart's Microblog micro.thomasbaart.nl
Found: OverlayKey X Designed by @yfuku_, a keyboard to place on top of your laptop. Thomas Baart's Microblog Ā· micro.thomasbaart.nl [1] 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. Note This post is a thought [2]. Itā€™s a short note that I make about someone elseā€™s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://micro.thomasbaart.nl/2024/06/12/overlaykey-x/ [2]: /thoughts/
šŸ’­ qmk_firmware/docs/features/programmable_button.md at master Ā· ... github.com
[1] 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. Iā€™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 donā€™t want it to. Note This post is a thought [2]. Itā€™s a short note that I make about someone elseā€™s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /static/https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/docs/features/programmable_button.md [2]: /thoughts/
šŸ’­ Steam Deck dock kbd.news
[1] This is a sick steam deck dock! With a corne built in laptop style. Note This post is a thought [2]. Itā€™s a short note that I make about someone elseā€™s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /static/https://kbd.news/Steam-Deck-dock-2291.html [2]: /thoughts/
Keebmaker Corne on Leather Palm Rest
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
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

specs # [1] first days typing # [2] first days working # [3] 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 # [4] 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 # [5] 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 li...
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