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πŸ› οΈ Kinesis Advantage 2

Modding a Kinesis Advantage 2

Pieced together πŸ”—QMK compatible controller via πŸ”—KinT kit. Also added custom USB stress relief, and touchpad

Touchpad gestures: πŸ”—libinput-gestures πŸ”—configured for 3-4 finger gestures (Back/Forward/Home/End/PGUP/PGDN)


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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)

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Soldered using a πŸ”—Pinecil V1 powered with a Lenovo laptop power brick

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Splatter from too much flux? (lead-free)

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GFCI in the kitchen. It’s one of those 300W LED strip soldering hotplates, probably fine but still.

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Those little bits are from me scrapping away accidental bridges

First SMD not as scary as I thought (~15 minutes lead-free)

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PCBs from πŸ”—JLCPCB (completely functional and lead-free)

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Test fit looked good. Empty stress relief opening needed a little more work.

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Replaced the built-in stress relief cable with a πŸ”—USB-C mount and a πŸ”—USB-C to USB-A cable to complete the build


Teensy Firmware QMK Layouts 1-4 (0-3)

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Main layout

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Caps Lock as function (FN) key to use with custom navigation cluster

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Keypad button switches to a numpad layer I’ve yet to use successfully

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I remapped the KA2 down key to forward music track instead of this DOS gaming layer (πŸ”—DBGL DOSBox frontend and Xbox controller ❀️‍πŸ”₯)

QMK πŸ”—json for the configurator and πŸ”—hex for flashing Teensy firmware. Remapped a few things since, and have no idea where I put my current firmware. So ah, whoops.