Ergogen Builder · TurkeyBoards Tools

Click a key, column, thumb, part or the board to edit it · drag it to move · scroll to zoom

Switches

Key spacing

Hot-swap sockets Keycap outlines on PCB

Keys

Columns

Rows

Column stagger

Stagger lifts each column to match finger length. Fine-tune each column below.

Tilt each half

Thumb keys

Start under

Move sideways Gap to the keys above Rotate cluster Fan between keys

Keycap sizes (1 is the outer thumb key)

Halves

Distance between halves

Electronics

Controller

Firmware for

Halves talk over

Reset button OLED display Rotary encoder Battery connector Power switch Mounting holes

Underglow LEDs (WS2812B, under the board)

Move the controller and parts

Sideways Up / down

Board shape

Shape

Top edge

Bottom edge under the columns, not the thumbs

Corner rounding

Rounds every corner of the outline, the inside ones too. 0 leaves them sharp.

Edge around keys

Automatic smoothing

Your shapes

Polygons, rectangles and circles that add board or cut it away. Right-click the picture to put one right there. Each is pinned to a key and mirrored onto the other half.

KiCad version

Run as I type

This is the file Ergogen reads, the same as on ergogen.xyz. The Design tab writes it for you; edit it here to change anything, including the layout. Ergogen docs

Ergogen config (YAML)

Tips: Ctrl+Enter builds, Tab indents, Ctrl+/ comments a line out. This is plain Ergogen 4.2.1 with its own footprints, so the config runs anywhere Ergogen does.

Checks

Files

A project file keeps the design, the config and your Layout Editor layout together. Open it again from Start from….

Firmware

QMK with Vial

Edit the keymap in the Firmware Kit

Pins, wire by wire

keyboard.json

What next

Open each .kicad_pcb in KiCad. Switches, diodes and parts are placed and labelled with their nets; draw the traces, then run the design rule check.
Send the PCB to a board house as Gerbers. Laser-cut or 3D print the plate from its DXF. The board outline DXF also makes a bottom plate.
Copy the firmware folder into keyboards/ in vial-qmk and build it.

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