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I have never seen a mechanical keyboard that required drivers. What abou that Logitech keyboard requires a driver?
by eikenberry 10y ago
I have never seen a mechanical keyboard that required drivers. What abou that Logitech keyboard requires a driver?
- minimaxir 10y agoIt doesn't require the driver, but it adds functionality, such as mapping function keys to shortcuts and customize the keyboard lighting. For the mouse, it also allows DPI configuration, which is very useful.
- Rebelgecko 10y agoPresumably to change the colors of the LEDs
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- ChuckMcM 10y agoKeyboard drivers provide additional support for controlling LED backlight color (many of them are RGB per key) and for managing 'macro' keys which send bulk key sequences. Both features are popular in the gaming community. But they are also useful in other ways, I've got a mod which blinks the F11 key when I've got a meeting/appointment coming up (for example)
- minimaxir 10y ago> I've got a mod which blinks the F11 key when I've got a meeting/appointment coming up (for example) Huh, that's a clever idea. I should look into that!
- Slackwise 10y agoThis is why I bought a Ducky keyboard, which does all this via an ARM controller/firmware right on the board. Zero software for my macro, lighting, settings, etc.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoInteresting keyboard, challenging manual :-). Having ARM Cortex-M chips as controllers really opened up the abilities of keyboards. I've been collecting a list of features that I'd like if I had a completely hackable keyboard (or built one).
- Slackwise 10y agoYea, the only thing I'd like more is a firmware that would let me just straight up tweak it with C or Rust code, or Lua if performant enough. I'm wondering if any of the DIY keyboard controllers are hackable. That'd be a nice future project.