Planck and QMK

The Planck Keyboard Over the past two years I tried out a few different keyboards for fun. I started with common form factors like TKL boards, went over 75% boards like the Q1 and then to a 60% HHKB. For typing feel, the HHKB is really amazing, but unfortunately the programmable features of a stock HHKB board are very limited. Now that I went down to 60%, I will give a more extreme keyboard a chance, the 40% Planck ortholinear keyboard....

October 8, 2022 · 3 min · Christoph Cullmann

Keyboards and Open-Source

Keyboards and Open-Source, how is that related? In my Keyboard Fun post from last year I talked a bit about my interest in mechanical keyboards. Since then, I played around with a few more keyboards/switches/keycaps/… Interesting enough, beside the actual hardware, naturally there is some software component to all these keyboards, too. Whereas most commercial keyboards still come with proprietary firmware, there is the trend within the keyboard enthusiast scene to go for open-source firmware....

January 23, 2022 · 5 min · Christoph Cullmann

Keyboard Fun

Keyboards? In the recent past, I started to get more interested in the quality of the keyboards I use at work and home. I always hated to use very cheap low-profile boards, but otherwise I more or less always worked with what came stock with my PC in the good old times ;) TKL boards A longer time ago I bought some Xtrfy K4 TKL White Edition keyboard, my first keyboard that had no numbers block....

December 12, 2021 · 3 min · Christoph Cullmann