Franken-Planck is my evolving 8 layer custom keymap for a 47 key Rev 6. Planck Keyboard. Ideas from others were assimilated in Borg like fashion. Resistance is futile, I am a Cyclon |)
- hjkl cursor keys
- home row modifiers
- left num-pad
- right mouse-pad
- num-pad style function keys layer
- media key layer
- start calculator and other apps layer
- NEO2 layer
- Hyper key on hold ESC
The Franken-Planck Layout firmware was created with the online QMK Configurator. It is just a JSON file that can be turned into C code and baked into firmware. Either using QMK's online tooling or locally with the QMK CLI tools.
You can use the online configurator.
Ideas I considered to be my own, or which I could not recall where I had seen it before, but I am sure I assimilated and twisted them.
Please if you think I got it from you or anybody else, let me know and I will add it to the list of assimilated ideas
- separate media layer.
- A right-hand mouse layer.
- A left-hand num-pad
- A layer with all 24 Function keys.
- Asian languages related keys on the mouse layer. I want to sort out whether I can use these as application lauchers from AutoHotkey
- Tapping raise is backspace and tapping lower is delete.
- Holding the lower gives me repeatable arrow keys under
hijkl. - Below
hjklfor bigger movements - Having tilde, backtick, quote and double quote available on layer zero without using modifiers was a happy work around for not being able to use modifiers in combination with layer tap in QMK. At least not without some additional code.
- NEO2 layout sticky on layer 1.
- Vim layer MacinPlanck.
- Making arrow keys available Noah Fredricl's Planck Sadly this custom layout with some extra coding for macros does not work for a Rev6 I think I got close with using just the JSON file.
- Raise space does backspace and Lower space does delete. Not sure who I stole that one from
I discovered Neo2 in a video by Jan Lunge, an alternative keyboard layout optimized for the German language and programming and mathematics. It is said to work well for English too. Dutch is close enough to German so that that would work well too. It has special layers for programming and mathematics. However, moving away from the known QUERTY, QUERTZ or AZERTY layout might be challenging.
On Android NEO2 is available as a keyboard Layout under the German language. I gave it a try. Although it was still a bit of hunt and peck, it still felt more comfortable and faster than QUERTY and certainly something I wanted learn.
Jan kindly shared his Planck layout. I converted his keymap.c to JSON using the QMK toolkit. I uploaded this to the QMK configurator and started to copy his NEO2 adaptation for the Planck into my own config.
As a Dutch native I do not use umlauts so I repurposed those keys for colon/semicolon and double quotes.