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Twst wrote: 13 Jun 2020, 20:22

Wow! Love that sound! ++

Yes, that would also make sense so the sandwich could be done closer! Good suggestion!

no I doubt you can brick it, but you could get to a not nice stack overflow maybe? :)
I don't know the proton and if that would be much better, but in the end we also wanted to use here something cheap and easy to source, which also is part of the "mission" statement, right?
But there are also ...

You can remove from the BOM the item 8: C2 C_Disc_D3.0mm_W1.6mm_P2.50mm 1 10U

BTW, andrei did the whole firmware while not having the HW at hand while I was doing the testing "remotely", as-usual! :lol: :lol:

The most difficult part here was the new DAC and his protocol, which is different from ...

That's a good question and indeed one of the main problems for implementing qmk on those tiny chips.. It comes to the limit when calibrating the thresholds since we cannot keep in memory like one calibration point per key, but we have to make tradeoffs.. Especially for beamsprings this seems quite ...

correct, it's the first time somebody manages to imlement capacitive sensing in QMK.. it's quite a breakthrough I'd say! Could be beneficial also for other capacitive boards! I was dreaming about this since a couple of years.. at least!

pruxoid I PM you.

about QMK: stay tuned and be patient, the pull request with the ppl from QMK is not so easy and straightforward but s in the process..

In the meantime other great news and success thanks to pandrew here: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?p=466111#p466111
There is now a cheap ...

Hi ho capacitive community!
Great news on the horizon: this PCB works and is going to be supporting QMK!

Pandrew managed to do yet another miracle and after having ported QMK on the regular xwhatsit controller PCB, now managed to do the same also on this PCB!

So far we noticed just a few minor ...

Yes yes please, especially to test the f77!

Once the qmk porting will be released you can forget about calibration and thresholds!

That's a funny switch then in there.. Not sure why they did this but theoretically I think it could work as well, as probably even topre could possibly work with pandrei 's capacitive algorithm.. Calibration seems the real tricky thing in this game and most likely the atmega32u2 or u4 have not ...

I didn't see this project mentioned but since it uses capacitive switches and qmk i thought it would be relevant. I'm not sure what the chips are in the photo to use the project as a base.
https://github.com/ginjake/qmk_firmware/tree/ec_helix/keyboards/ec_helix


Ciao Gipetto,
are you sure ...

that's great to hear ellipse!
also thank you xyzzy for confirming it compiles and also works on OSX!
so we also have dmg and binaries indeed now that are finally tested on all OSes, cool!

tent:wq

pm sent great!

We still did not test the solenoid expansion header but I'd say that should be an easy part then, will let you know when we manage to test it as well, I've already an xwhatsit solenoid driver to drive the original ibm beamspring solenoid here.. and I'm also interested in trying the other solutions ...

me too! no worries!

Twst wrote: 04 Jun 2020, 10:30 Please do tell if you need any more testers

Are you by any chance on a Mac?

Yes that would be good; the problem is the keyboard spams keys as soon as it's plugged in, if the xwhatsit threshold is set too low. If there's a way to automatically send the xwhatsit into bootloader when it's connected that would be great.


correct that's what this utility should do. I've sent ...

You can as soon as we have finished testing phase and are satisfied sure!

Hi Ellipse!
I wanted to inform you that actually pandrei also made a small nice utility that should compile in Win, Mac and Linux (it's QT5) that is able to reset the xwhatsit without the need to press physically the reset pads i.e. without needing to open the case. Maybe this might help as well ...

Pending Activities
1. Physical hardware testing
2. Firmware - needs modification to run on promicro
3. Firmware testing



contributions, and suggestions welcome! board is likely to go through *multiple* revisions, but thankfully its fairly modular. https://github.com/listofoptions/TH-XWhatsIt ...

so far I did not have this issue and wonder if it's general or specific.. also: is there something that can be done by oneself in case?

photo5918054696247997375.jpg
..tonight is QMK-on-Beamspring testing night!

I'm writing this for the first time for humankind on a 3278 with QMK on board! :D

Will post results tomorrow..

tent:wq


I am curious - how did it go?


Very good so far we've managed to let QMK run on two ...

Holy moly.. this projects smells like eclipse's new model.. beamspring!
Great and interesting job man!!

tent:wq

..tonight is QMK-on-Beamspring testing night!

I'm writing this for the first time for humankind on a 3278 with QMK on board!

Will post results tomorrow..

tent:wq

Well the Screenshot above comes from the one pandrei is currently running yeah... Works great

I'm equally excited with this progresses here, again thanks to andrei, thanks also to who is testing it to confirm the algorithm is good, like daijoubu that previously had calibration issues at least once per day and now they seem gone. I was sure, since I tested external electromagnetic ...

I've got the labelless ones from ellipse and must admit they seem, if possible, superior to originals in terms of sound and feeling.. so also considering a caps set only here!

Well yes, I also am a big fan of just having more options in the end.
And yes, xwhatsit FW works, but the QMK just works better.. like you can even move the board from one room to another without needing to edit some number! :P :P :P
But again it depends on your needs as well, I do make extensive ...