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Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families

56 mentions on Hacker News by 44 people: 1 story, 55 comments · first 2017-05-03 · latest 2026-08-22

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  1. …keyboards. Allows to move around physical keys and add different actions for "hold", "tap" actions. https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards
  2. …allow to build ANY layout you would like (see links) - You can program most mechanical keyboards ( https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware ) and move any key whenever you like and use additional features like assigning different actions on key…
  3. https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware
  4. …wire everything together. tmk/qmk is more or less a defacto standard in custom keyboard firmware: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware here are some examples of people generating firmware with webtools, I don't know what they use on the…
  5. …to start buying fully programmable keyboards and doing all of it at the firmware. I use QMK ( https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware ) and do very similar things to op. For instance, where my caps lock is, I have set to tap for escape, hold…
    comment by vhost- · 2017-07-12 · in New Hyper Key
  6. …firmware. I think I can see a teensy like board in the picture. here is an (the) example in c: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware
    comment by nicwest · 2017-05-03 · in The Amazing Shortcut Keypad