Re:Split keyboards and how to build them
by secure on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:46AM
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My https://github.com/kinx-project/kint project is a replacement keyboard controller for the Kinesis Advantage keyboards, which allows you to use QMK :)
Re:Split keyboards and how to build them
by dsissitka on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:48AM
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Nice, thank you! :)
Re:Split keyboards and how to build them
by ashkankiani on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:18AM
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Yeah this is what I was going to say. There are a few projects which allow one to swap out the firmware for a custom one on Advantage Kinesis keyboards. There's one with a teensy, one with a custom controller. It's not exactly trivial to do, but I think it is the ultimate if you want to go that route. The hardware design of the Kinesis is top tier, but the software is a bit weak.
QMK. I think QMK is a bit like Excel in that everybody has that subset of functionality they use. I like layers and the leader key.
Open source firmware. I have a last gen Advantage I can't use because there's a bug in the firmware that causes modifier keys to stick and there's nobody left at Kinesis that remembers how to work on it. That will never happen with QMK.
Hot swappable switches.
Edit: I do miss the curve though. I'm using SA Profile keycaps [0] and while they're nice it's not quite the same.
[0] https://imgur.com/EZgGBdg