🛠️ Kinesis Advantage 2
Modding a Kinesis Advantage 2
Pieced together 🔗QMK compatible controller via 🔗KinT kit. Also added custom USB stress relief, and touchpad
Touchpad gestures: 🔗libinput-gestures 🔗configured for 3-4 finger gestures (Back/Forward/Home/End/PGUP/PGDN)
Coffee bag tie for cable management, and right angle USB for the touchpad.
Touchpad mess: Sanded the burn marks caused by oil paint pens on card stock paper (whoops)
Soldered using a 🔗Pinecil V1 powered with a Lenovo laptop power brick
Splatter from too much flux? (lead-free)
GFCI in the kitchen. It’s one of those 300W LED strip soldering hotplates, probably fine but still.
Those little bits are from me scrapping away accidental bridges
First SMD not as scary as I thought (~15 minutes lead-free)
PCBs from 🔗JLCPCB (completely functional and lead-free)
Test fit looked good. Empty stress relief opening needed a little more work.
Replaced the built-in stress relief cable with a 🔗USB-C mount and a 🔗USB-C to USB-A cable to complete the build
Main layout
Caps Lock as function (FN) key to use with custom navigation cluster
Keypad button switches to a numpad layer I’ve yet to use successfully
I remapped the KA2 down key to forward music track instead of this DOS gaming layer (🔗DBGL DOSBox frontend and Xbox controller ❤️🔥)
QMK 🔗json for the configurator and 🔗hex for flashing Teensy firmware. Remapped a few things since, and have no idea where I put my current firmware. So ah, whoops.