I had already posted this on the other keyboard community but after a few beers tonight, felt I should share it here too. I built this last weekend and test drove it at work all week. I think I really like the Robins but probably not as much as my beloved Sunsets.

The layout is for my Ferris but it’s mostly adapted to 36 keys as well. It’s based a bit on Miryoku and KKGA(I think that was the name). I also took heavy influence from Mental’s symbol layer with the finger roll bigrams. I do have a gaming layer but it’s sort of always changing depending on the game I am playing. Right now it’s Dyson Sphere Program so my second gaming layer is shortcuts for like belt levels and copy/pasting buildings.

  • epocsquadron@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    Do you have links to the referenced Mental symbol later and kkga? I have a similar layout in mind for a Waterfowl I’m building and would love to check out some 36 key layout tricks. I’m already quite familiar with miryoku but I struggle with symbol and number layers.

    • roux is a libOP
      3·
      2 years ago

      The only thing I really don’t like about Miryoku was the symbol layer so it’s been a journey trying to find something that works. I should have shared those links when I made this post. Sorry about that.

      Obosob took down the keymap pin on reddit so I forget Mental’s full user name but here is his blog post about the layer: https://getreuer.info/posts/keyboards/symbol-layer/index.html

      This is the guy that developed Capsword. He has other posts that are worth checking out.

      Here is KKGA: https://keymapdb.com/keymaps/kkga/ I mostly borrowed the vertical brackets cluster. I wanted (); in homerow but also { accessable. [] isn’t used as much so it went on the bottom row. And } is usually handled by intelesense/autocomplete so I put it a bit out of the way.

      I was also eyeballing Hypership as well and tried setting symbols up similar but then saw KKGA’s and got curious about it. I can’t find Hypership right now but if I do I can share it too. I think someone made a comment on this community a few days ago.

      Found it! Hypership: https://keebogram.pages.dev/hypership/

        • roux is a libOP
          1·
          2 years ago

          Not a problem. I try my darnedest to provide the info, especially for this aspect of the whole keyboard hobby since it’s sometimes hard to navigate.

          keymapdb.com is just great in general to browse the layouts for inspiration. I would suggest if you are about to do a bunch of layout exploring when you build the Waterfowl, to look into using Vial instead of vanilla QMK. If you don’t know, it gives you a graphical interface that let’s you hot-swap what keys do what without having to reflash your firmware. I just checked and the firmware does have support for that keyboard.

          The github for Waterfowl: https://github.com/vial-kb/vial-qmk/tree/vial/keyboards/waterfowl/keymaps/vial

          and Vial if you need it: https://get.vial.today/