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Offline cspirou

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QMK Firmware
« on: Tue, 18 June 2019, 14:54:23 »
I am hoping this can become a more general thread on QMK firmware.

I was reading about the QMK Proton controller and I saw that it uses an STM32 processor. While I was looking at a teardown of a Steelseries keyboard I saw that it also used an STM32. My hardware knowledge might be a bit simplistic, but does this mean I can use QMK with a Steelseries keyboard?

Offline redbanshee

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Re: QMK Firmware
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 18 June 2019, 15:40:09 »
I am hoping this can become a more general thread on QMK firmware.

I was reading about the QMK Proton controller and I saw that it uses an STM32 processor. While I was looking at a teardown of a Steelseries keyboard I saw that it also used an STM32. My hardware knowledge might be a bit simplistic, but does this mean I can use QMK with a Steelseries keyboard?

You would need a few things to go right for this to be able to happen, and it would take a ****ton of work, including disassembly of the board down to the bare pcb.

You would have to take the keyboard apart to be able to re-create the matrix of the keys because of multi layer PCB's, you would have to visually trace the traces of the matrix (assuming they are using a traditional matrix method).

Then deal with write protection on the chip  memory itself, and what type of connection it has to hook up a programing device.


so basically... no... not without lots of experience doing these things



Offline cspirou

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Re: QMK Firmware
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 19 June 2019, 09:30:44 »
Thanks

The remapping of the matrix was kind of expected, but I just wanted to know if I could load the firmware in the first place. Seems like that's an issue too.