I’m working on a set of libraries with which to extend the Keyboardio firmware with, and it looks like it will satisfy my own needs very, very soon now. But chances are, I won’t be able to play with the hardware yet by that point, so to keep myself occupied during the - hopefully - final stretch of …

[image] andrewg: I notice the one solution you didn’t try was a localised Hungarian keymap… That’s because there is no localised Dvorak for Hungarian that I could find. :frowning: I have used Hungarian QWERTZ in the past, and while it made inputting Hungarian a tiny bit easier, I lost easy a…

[image] andrewg: Of course there are ways to use input methods (such as compose-key, my personal favourite) to input arbitrary characters. But the majority of native-language speakers prefer to use localised keymaps – or only know how to use a localised keymap – partly because of familiarity and…

[image] michael: I wasn’t yet aware of the hungarian layout. Is your point that this layout exists on all major OSes as a standard and would allow to send “normal” scancodes in order to get all the possible diacritics instead of using weird altgr+various keys combinations? Yes, there is Hunga…

[image] algernon: So it is a bit of a trade off, and for my use cases, one I’m not happy to make, because I use [ more often, thus, I’d end up hiding ő in a layer anyway. This is exactly my point. It is a tradeoff that you are willing to make. But not everyone will come down on the same side …

[image] andrewg: This is exactly my point. It is a tradeoff that you are willing to make. But not everyone will come down on the same side of that tradeoff. There are a lot of people who prefer US_ASCII over their localised layout (including me!). But there are another lot of people who do not. …

LED heatmap is a neat idea, and not too hard to do, either. Thanks!

Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to really keep up with this conversation, and I lack the keyboard-hacking experience necessary to completely understand all the details, but I do have a pretty good idea of what I want from my Model 01, so I thought I’d share. First: I want to be able to plug my…

[image] merlin: I’m guessing that this will require different modes in the keyboard for different operating systems. For some of the things, yes. For the basic functionality, thankfully no. [image] merlin: Ideally, the keyboard would be able to both tell the OS what type of keyboard conf…

[image] algernon: Similarly, it can’t ask the computer what OS it is running, either. There are hacks that help with guessing, but that’s just that: a guess. A reasonable default, but it must not be the only thing to rely on. So a key combination to set the mode on the keyboard itself will likel…

What do people want from the firmware?

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merlin (Michael Richters) November 16, 2016, 4:17pm 46

One idea I had a while back was to use the LEDs to display an internally-recorded heatmap on the keyboard itself.

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What do people want from the firmware?

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