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ZMK's second birthday
Pete Johanson's write-up for the second birthday of the ZMK firmware.
Published April 21, 2022
ZMK, the wireless-first open-source keyboard firmware turned two today.
According to zmk.dev, ZMK Firmware is an open source (MIT) keyboard firmware built on the Zephyr™ Project Real Time Operating System (RTOS). ZMK's goal is to provide a modern, wireless, and powerful firmware free of licensing issues.
We've seen ZMK firmware used by several creators recently, e.g. on Lolcatz's Blank Slate, Zealousideal's Kiboard68 and Tony Jeffree's MiniNova, just to name a few.
And ZMK, apparently popular combined with NiceNanos, is exactly two years old today:
Two years ago, today, I minted the first ever commit for ZMK – petejohanson.
Read the full post written by creator @petejohanson in the ZMK blog:
https://zmk.dev/blog/2022/04/21/zmk-2yo/
While ZMK is currently missing some features found in other popular firmware (e.g. QMK's mouse keys or KMK/PRK's on-the-fly keymap update), Pete published another post on all the new features he and other contributors implemented recently (e.g. caps word, tap dance, e-paper display support, etc.).
Check out all the news here:
https://zmk.dev/blog/2022/04/10/zmk-sotf-5
And of course here is the project's Github repo too: https://github.com/zmkfirmware/zmk
Published on Thu 21st Apr 2022. Featured in KBD #75 (source).
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