I Built A Keyboard Configurator From Scratch

Creating a Custom RP2040 Keyboard Configuration GUI from Scratch

This works very well with any RP2040 controller like the raspberry pi pico, you get guided through the entire firmware creation process without writing any code

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[perw]

That keyboard layout builder is insanely cool.

[joeydendron]

We do not do things because they are easy. We do things because we thought they would be easy.

[malpern]

Thanks for the Pog app and for the tech support on Discord!

[parallacksg]

Huge achievement getting all this done. I already suggest KMK to beginners in the handwired keyboard space. Now there's even more reason to do so. So awesome!

[RubenHenares-bkrl]

Incredible work. As someone new to custom keyboard building, I felt the exact same way.
I can’t believe there aren’t any tools to make this process more accessible.
Thanks for doing this. It’s amazing.

[mheathcott]

I have zero programming experience—had never built a custom keyboard before. Using pog, I was able to build my first firmware, start to finish, in about an hour. I’m confident that I could do it again in about 15 minutes. Great work!

[moritz]

I am still proud for suggesting the method at 3:58 :)
It's nice too see all these awesome updates in POG. Nice work!

Kind regards
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[AviatorXD]

Wow you've actually done what i was thinking about trying to do for myself. It looks really clean, good stuff man.

[michaelol]

First off, very nice work with Pog, it looks very good.
Installed and up and running in seconds, so I ordered a Helios board to do some testing...
I've been trying to get my head around the normal QMK/VIA, I find the process a little confusing but will continue, shame they don't have an all in one tool like Pog...

Adding the board image with pin-out as reference was genius...

[nonamebear]

This is amazing! It makes me want to get back to building keyboards again. And you didn't leave out us linux users like the qmk project did. Thank you for sharing.

[Danielo]

This is insanely cool. I bet you were frustrated by the current way of configuring keyboards and thought "Incan build one myself as a little personal project" and then, "hey, this may be useful for others" and the whole rabbit hole opens in front of you... Will donate even if I don't plan to use it

[gmoraesalvarez]

Man, I used your builder and forked to start implementing stuff right before you started working on it again. Huge thanks. Keeping an eye on updates everyday.

[rayer]

Looks really cool! Now I have even more reasons to continue with my build.

[Nathendov]

Amazing! I had an idea to build a kmk keyboard mapping configurator in a web app, but this is way better! Really looking forward to diving into the source code

[AlazIhsanCelik]

Thank you so much for this i made a little 3x3 rp2040 macropad and thanks to this firmware i got it up and running in 5 minutes im 13 and im proud of myself i made the whole thing in a day

[MakenModify]

That is awesome, I switched to the RP2040 and KMK for my keyboards a while back but was really missing a simple editor like VIA. Thank you for your great work, will definitely test it. Besten Dank :)

[meyburgh]

WOW!!! amazing project Jan!!!! Well done!

[JdotCarver]

Built my own keyboard in early 2024.
Ran VIAL because I thought having a GUI was pretty mandatory for having a decent experience with switching to Ergo Split.

Now noticing that VIAL hasn't been updated in more than a year now, and what is has in UI it lacks features.

The landscape is definitively not settled. So I'm glad you're pushing for people to actually make building and maintaining your keyboard configuration more user friendly.

[PatrickvL]

Thanks Jan. I tried it with a 3x3 macropad that I build some time ago. Your applications works perfectly fine. It only took a couple of minutes to configure the macropad. The ToggleDrive option is very nice. I need this because my company laptop does not allow external storage devices to be connected. Keep up the good work!

[anonymouscommentator]

i built a corne keyboard a few months ago with the helios board (as it really is just a great) and i really want to give this a try now! thank you for developing this, it looks very promising!