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I love that someone is paying more attention to the keyboard space as switching to an Ergodox is the best thing I have ever done, but I don't like this one. I w

by dkhenry 11y ago

I love that someone is paying more attention to the keyboard space as switching to an Ergodox is the best thing I have ever done, but I don't like this one. I wish them the best of luck, but the lack of full open source ( hardware and sofware ) is really a limiter for me, I can't make changes or improvements I am just stuck with whatever they decided was best.

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lhl 11y ago
Err, what? Their open source policy is stated in the video and in the text. Every keyboard ships w/ a screwdriver and the firmware is on github. https://github.com/obra/KeyboardioFirmware https://github.com/obra/KeyboardioFirmware "We believe, quite strongly, that you own the things you buy from us. You are 100% welcome to open your keyboard up, flash its firmware, reflash its bootloader, solder weird connectors onto the circuit boards or flash our firmware onto something else. (Do note that we're not going to be able to help you out a lot after you do some of those things.) To make all of this as easy as possible for you, your Model 01 will ship with a screwdriver, firmware & bootloader source code, schematics, and all the CAD you need to design your own enclosure."
- dkhenry 11y ago
  yeah but no mention of the schematics for the circuit boards, or the existing designs of the enclosure. If you look at the ergodox they ship the gerbers for the circuit board as well as STL files for the enclosure.
  - lhl 11y ago
    "schematics, and all the CAD you need to design your own enclosure" does not count as a mention of schematics? If that's not enough for you, then it's not, but it sounds like you're just arguing to argue. (FWIW I've soldered my own ErgoDox. I've also backed the Model 01.) Anyway, I'm going to back away from this thread now. Good luck, guy.
ternus 11y ago
The Keyboardio is fully open source, from the schematics to the CAD files to the firmware. It says so several times on the kickstarter page. Heck, the code is available right now: https://github.com/obra/KeyboardioFirmware/ https://github.com/obra/KeyboardioFirmware/

by dkhenry 11y ago

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lhl 11y ago

Err, what? Their open source policy is stated in the video and in the text. Every keyboard ships w/ a screwdriver and the firmware is on github. https://github.com/obra/KeyboardioFirmware https://github.com/obra/KeyboardioFirmware "We believe, quite strongly, that you own the things you buy from us. You are 100% welcome to open your keyboard up, flash its firmware, reflash its bootloader, solder weird connectors onto the circuit boards or flash our firmware onto something else. (Do note that we're not going to be able to help you out a lot after you do some of those things.) To make all of this as easy as possible for you, your Model 01 will ship with a screwdriver, firmware & bootloader source code, schematics, and all the CAD you need to design your own enclosure."

dkhenry 11y ago
yeah but no mention of the schematics for the circuit boards, or the existing designs of the enclosure. If you look at the ergodox they ship the gerbers for the circuit board as well as STL files for the enclosure.
- lhl 11y ago
  "schematics, and all the CAD you need to design your own enclosure" does not count as a mention of schematics? If that's not enough for you, then it's not, but it sounds like you're just arguing to argue. (FWIW I've soldered my own ErgoDox. I've also backed the Model 01.) Anyway, I'm going to back away from this thread now. Good luck, guy.

ternus 11y ago

The Keyboardio is fully open source, from the schematics to the CAD files to the firmware. It says so several times on the kickstarter page. Heck, the code is available right now: https://github.com/obra/KeyboardioFirmware/ https://github.com/obra/KeyboardioFirmware/