I Built A Keyboard Configurator From Scratch 

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That keyboard layout builder is insanely cool.

Wake up babe, new Jan just dropped.

Huge achievement getting all this done. I already suggest KMK to beginners in the handwired keyboard space. Now there's even more reason to do so. So awesome!

This is insanely cool. I bet you were frustrated by the current way of configuring keyboards and thought "Incan build one myself as a little personal project" and then, "hey, this may be useful for others" and the whole rabbit hole opens in front of you... Will donate even if I don't plan to use it

Thanks for the Pog app and for the tech support on Discord!

Looks really cool! Now I have even more reasons to continue with my build.

This looks awesome!

Looks fantastic. Can’t wait to try it!

WOW!!! amazing project Jan!!!! Well done!

That looks awesome. Can't wait to play around with it!

this looks like an amazing project and comes in just in time for me. will test it out this weekend. congratulations!

Thnx for your effort!!!

Great work!

Wow - sehr beeindruckend.

Just tried this out and it is awesome.

Wow you've actually done what i was thinking about trying to do for myself. It looks really clean, good stuff man.

I am just finishing up my custom RP2040 keyboard, and pog looks like the perfect configuration software for it! Can't wait to see what other cool features you add! :D

That is awesome, I switched to the RP2040 and KMK for my keyboards a while back but was really missing a simple editor like VIA. Thank you for your great work, will definitely test it. Besten Dank :)

i built a corne keyboard a few months ago with the helios board (as it really is just a great) and i really want to give this a try now! thank you for developing this, it looks very promising!

u deserve the subscribe bro, thx a lot for ur effort to make this project and ur contribution to opensource community

This is amazing! It makes me want to get back to building keyboards again. And you didn't leave out us linux users like the qmk project did. Thank you for sharing.

This is amazing. For now I am sticking with my Dygma Defy, but will definitely try pog when experimenting with smaller keyboards

I’ve been looking for circuitpython builds for Python configuration, this is fantastic! I like that it allows for integration of extra sensors and capabilities. This will make integrating new mouse sensors, for example, a breeze. Proximity sensors, gesture sensors. Heck, I want to integrate an air quality, VOC, and flicker sensor into one to let me know if the oxygen level is low or the office lights are prone to causing fatigue.

I’m so new to this custom keyboard world and I’m over here like 👀

This is AMAZING.

Thanks Jan. I tried it with a 3x3 macropad that I build some time ago. Your applications works perfectly fine. It only took a couple of minutes to configure the macropad. The ToggleDrive option is very nice. I need this because my company laptop does not allow external storage devices to be connected. Keep up the good work!

I am still proud for suggesting the method at 3:58 :) It's nice too see all these awesome updates in POG. Nice work! Kind regards android

Holy smokes that's massive job! insanity twindling i presume :D

Nice. I am already used to my Moonlander and Voyager, but this is real nice.

So long time no see 😂, maybe next fiture is oled display

Thanks!

This is really impressive. I'm partial to ZMK, but I feel like this is "the" Killer App needs KMK needs for adoption. I used an earlier version, and I'm glad to know it has only gotten better.

That is so cool

Damn bro @JanLunge, you made pog just after I finished my first handwired board a week ago. I spent more than a month to learn different stuff, especially kmk to make my keyboard functional, pog would have made everything so easier if I would have started a couple of months after.

two things i like. you use the debugger you are implementing because we need to eat our own dog food also this is so cool. this microcontroller seems so more powerful. i have my own split keyboard and i am very happy with it but i want to make another one at some point cause i can't know when it breaks and you know variety and see what i might be missing. i really liked your tool and i will definitely give it a try when i have the money saved for my next keyboard

That is dope. I might have to pop off my promicro clones from my qmk sweep board. I did not know kmk supported bluetooth wireless split boards too. Darn I just made a zmk sweep as well with n!ce nanos too. Now it kinda feels like a waste.

Haven't watched the video yet (9 seconds in) but the hair looks awesome, dude!

I'm loving your new software. Can you give us some information on layers and how to use them? Many thanks.

Might be time for me to take a look at this and find an excuse to mess around with KMK.

Conceptually can be done with zmk. 🤔 Amazing work

Wow amazing work. Thx. I just wonder if there is a way to get those bluetooth chatpads for dualsense running with pico?

not bad

Ok, now measure the latency between keypress of a normal keyboard, AtMega and the Pi chip.

I am still a friend of original picos or 1:1 clones from Aliexpress (with usb-c) - because they have more pins (=single controller keyboard) and if it is only $6 you can directly solder it to the pcb (which i don’t do at 2x $16). Makes a slim footprint and looks better.

This is a huge step up from the usual Via/Vial experience! One question though, what are the memory requirements on the controller's side? E.g will a 4mb pico be enough?

Amazing work! I would love to try this for my upcoming Corne build, is this compatible with any generic RP2040 or are you locked to the 0xCB specifically? So long as that RP2040 has the same processing power and storage.

Nice work - as someone without a background in software development, rebuilding firmware to get custom handwired keyboards to work was extremely frustrating. I’m keep to try this out for my next build. That said, I’m also keen for my next build to be hall-effect switches. Since KMK is built on circuitpython there’s no reason it couldn’t have analogue keys - and there are some builds that use them already. Any chance support for HE keys is built into your toolchain?

Love the idea of this and KMK in general. I do wonder about the keyboard basically being a writable USB drive all the time. I know in this video you mention a feature that allows you to only mount the drive on a certain keypress, but I still have some security concerns. Perhaps this is more of an upstream KMK or even circuit python problem, but what would prevent any piece of software from injecting a keylogger onto the pico when it is plugged in? It seems like adding code to a circuitpython based board is a little too easy. I wonder if a custom version of circuit python with some form of hash checking or something could remedy that, such that only user authorized changes can run. Maybe this is somewhat counterintuitive to the point of KMK though... Idk, i am not a security expert by any means, just wondering. I do want to try KMK and Pog for a manuform build, but IDK if its a good idea to be plugging a kmk board into an unknown computer, or even a friend's computer.

Great work you have done with POG, although it can be done with any version of Pi Pico (even the ones from Aliexpress) would it be possible to take it further and do it with a Pi Zero? It would have enough memory and GPIO to make a style like Corne V3. Greetings

FYI kb2040 is also nice board with pro micro layout, I'm not sure about the pinout compatibility tho

Waiting For next Part ... I also had a doubt, doing Btech in ECE (Electronics and Communication) is enough for this Venture ? or do we also need MTech ? and if yes, MTech in what subject ? Pls Help, I will Forever be Grateful !

Jan, a question - is KMK good for PC gaming? Like Homeworld 3 and/or World of Tanks?

What software did you use of the editing/overlays in the video? So crisp.

This looks absolutely amazing, could it be used by boards not using the RP2040? From what I can tell i should because you can name the pin prefix, right? I've already got my handwired board running kmk, but the keymap is still in its v0.1 stage so using this could be very awesome to iterate much more quickly! Also, how does it work when using a split board? do i need to have both halves plugged in at the same time?

Bluetooth support?

if this is more stable than Peg, I owe you big time. does it support OLED displays?

Maybe i should add a switch to change configs. Think of QUERTZ - NEO - Bone - VOU - ColemakDH, …

How can I set for ex first row of numbers to be also function keys (f1-f12) when clicked with another key?

How is the display support for KMK?

Seeing this 48 hours after spending many hours figuring out KMK and circuitpython...

A few months ago i set up a keypad with kmk and an RP2040, worked as expected, however every couple days it would randomly jump back into its native mode as a thumb drive and the keypad would stop working, hit reset and it would work fine for a while again. Frustrated me enough I ripped the 2040 out. Any idea what was going on?

does it work with qmk?

This is outstanding. I've only just gotten into custom keyboards and found your video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q97bFwjQ_vQ.html on PiPico while trying to make a button box for space sims. I've only been watching your videos for a few months and was worried your channel was a bit quiet. I found your Discord & POG yesterday and now this video - simply brilliant work and I 'm glad I found it before getting any deeper into keyboard making. Thank you so much!!

i'm fink people need mirror keyboard to working like bodybuilder asymmetry of brain. i fink about two keyboard in one

Bro

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