How do you like them? Been thinking about trying that style for a long time.

Looks and sounds super cool!

Thirded for the M2!! I love mine. It’s been a great little solid interface.

Oh I dunno, I think these guys make for a great thing to play while enjoying breakfast and a morning coffee. For me, anyway - YMMV.

Hell yeah! That thing looks gnarly!

Came here to say the same 😆

Same! My current partner doesn’t mind and I actually convinced a previous partner to adopt it so there are at least two ladies out there who are neutral-to-positive about it.

They’re so fun!

You are not the first person I’ve heard share that sentiment!

Sorry, couldn’t resist. You’re doing a LOT. I hope you can get some assistance on one or more fronts. And I hope you can give yourself some grace.

Bummer! I wonder if the clock just has a bad crystal. Maybe the solution is to instead use the gif mode to display something fun.

Yeah, all that hot water and then people will just take longer showers. Their job is really tankless.

If you’re new to pcb design, I’d recommend learning KiCad! I haven’t designed a keeb pcb in a few years so my skills are rusty, but I learned the basics with this series on youtube called ‘getting to blinky’. There may be better or more up to date ones available these days, though. I’d maybe just take one of the side macro pads and just make that as a standalone to get the hang of it first before going hog wild with the whole thing. Honestly though, despite how tedious it is, handwiring a matrix isn’t too too bad!

Wow, that’s suuuuper custom. What firmware? Are you going to hand-wire it first to test? The only half size mechanical switches I’ve seen were alps, but I don’t know if they’d be available for sale anywhere these days. Nor caps. If it were me I’d probably just mock up the layout in cardboard with switches and stuff to see how it feels, then go from there.

Yessssss, I love this band. See them live if you can, they’re awesome.

Or just be Paul Gilbert 😆 https://youtu.be/smPYFFy3VV0

I know in QMK you can set up different layouts that you can switch to. This is used for switching between qwerty and dvorak and stuff like that. You could set up layers that have the space defined like you want it in each condition. Check out PDF(layer): https://docs.qmk.fm/feature_layers#switching-and-toggling-layers

The Planck keyboard default firmware does this on an ‘adjust’ layer: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/keyboards/planck/rev7/keymaps/default/keymap.c

This is how I’d do it. But it’s not something that you control from the computer side. Also, having it baked into the firmware means you can use that feature on whatever system you might want to plug the keyboard into. I don’t know if that kind of thing is possible to set up with the VIA gui. But since you’re using arch (btw), learning QMK might be right up your alley!

There’s also this feature in QMK that I don’t quite understand called the ‘Programmable Button’ that lets the software interpret certain keycodes before handing off to the OS (I think that’s how it works? I might have that wrong): https://docs.qmk.fm/features/programmable_button

I hope that helps :)

Something something security reasons maybe? 🤔

I’ve had similar problems and this was the issue. The problem is there’s no way to know what the requirements are from a user’s point of view at the moment of posting, and the error doesn’t provide useful information, so it just looks broken.

I don’t know how much can be done within the app about the error messaging, but having a way to squish down the image in size and compression within the posting flow would be really helpful.