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Ergogen tutorials

FlatFootFox published a comprehensive series of tutorials on how to use Ergogen V4.

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Published May 3, 2023
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FlatFootFox aka TheStuChef published a series of tutorials on how to use Ergogen V4: Let's Design A Keyboard With Ergogen v4 – A Beginner's Guide To Designing Custom Ergonomic Keyboard PCBs.

Ergogen, the ergonomic keyboard layout generator app, recently hit v4! I've been enjoying using this tool for a while now, so I decided to collect everything I've learned into a series of step-by-step articles outlining the basics of Ergonomic keyboard PCB creation – TheStuChef.

As many of you may know, also explained by project owner Dénes Bán in the MK Advent Calendar, V4 of Ergogen stirred things up by introducing some breaking changes last December, thus rendering older YAML scripts incompatible and earlier examples, tutorials and documentation unusable.

This series of articles by FlatFootFox tries to incorporate these changes and address many of the issues, while guiding you through the process of creating a keyboard PCB with a unibody Sofle-like layout.

I'm sure this will be helpful for uninitiated first-time users and confused Ergogen V3 pros as well.

Contents

The series covers:

Resources

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Published on Wed 3rd May 2023. Featured in KBD #121 (source).


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