#Hello! im very unfamiliar with this process, and outside of the docs i am so very lost.

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vital ingot
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This is my 15th or 16th hand wired keyboard, second time trying a split, first time at trying for wireless. I have read the Documentation, but i believe my lack of knowledge in terms of coding is what is dragging me down. i get to the point where i make repo via Powershell, and then from what i can tell i make a module since my board is custom (Imagine a lily58 without the inner most 1u keys, and top row is shifted up to create a gap.

I don't know what Im doing, and I'm trying my best to be done building this by Wednesday before i have family in town. i just tried restarting fresh and i just need some "for dummies" kind of guidance.

Look forward to living in the Channel in the coming months!

woven knot
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I believe you don't need a module necessarily, I think you can just start with a basic ZMK config repo and add the necessary files to define the shield in that repo? Might be an easier way to get started

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The only time I created a shield I did it in a module because I was copying someone else who did that 😛

vital ingot
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yes, this is where i ended up in my doc hunt. i was under the impression i had to have a module to supply zmk during the "Build" process. becuase the board soes not exist

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ive only ever worked with Qmk, and thats choc full of tutorials. im a very visual learner, and this is not something with lots of visual learning lol

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thank you for the input ntl!

glad sun
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If you want to try something more visual oriented (and experimental), I made a graphical tool #show-and-tell message

vital ingot
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i am using the nice!nano v2, and thats good to know about the powershell steps, thank you. i will check that out.

vital ingot
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Please excuse my ignorance, but how do I download the tool you created?

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What do I click on in GitHub? I’m sorry if this is very simple I’m just very new to git as a whole

vital ingot
vital ingot
glad sun
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Glad it helped 🙂

vital ingot
# glad sun Glad it helped 🙂

I’ll upload the firmware once I get home. Just to confirm when looking through everything, it’s treating the key map, as a single keyboard? But then splits it in the overlays by gpio pin assignment?

vital ingot
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Are there any pins I should avoid in the wiring? I’m having an issue with 2 columns and a row not getting picked up on each half?

glad sun
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Don't have time to type long answer right now:

  • See split keyboard doc page for keyboard roles. Left side (configured as central) do everything (keymap processing and connect to hosts). Right side just sends the position of key pressed to left side.
  • All pro_micro pins are useable
vital ingot
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talks to the master, but no master to computer. and adding &bt keys kills the workflow on github.

glad sun