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USB-C Kinesis Advantage2 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by danieldk to c/ergomechkeyboards

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I have been using KinT controllers in my Advantage2 keyboards. However, I have been a bit worried about the availability of Teensy MCUs. I have been using Teensy LCs, but they are pretty much out of stock until 2024 and may never get in stock again. Teensy 4.0 and 4.2 controllers go for 30-40 Euro, which is pretty insane in a world of 4 Euro Raspberry Pi Picos.

At any rate, I'd like to keep some spares in case one of the controllers breaks. Moreover, I have been wishing for USB-C, since I am a Mac user. Luckily, /u/dj_edit made a KinT fork that uses the Black Pill microcontroller that is readily available for a few bucks and best of all has USB-C.

So, this week I got the PCBs and converted my first Advantage from vanilla KinT to KinT Black Pill:

I also ported their Vial support over to QMK, which required some changes to work with the latest QMK (mostly porting over stuff to info.json):

https://github.com/danieldk/qmk_firmware/tree/danieldk/keyboards/kinesis/kintbp

The USB-C mount is one from the series of mounts that I found on Amazon and discussed in this Reddit post

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