i wanna build a wireless corne with a nice big battery so it doesnt need to charge alot but i do not know what i need i can get a aurora corne kit from splitkb bit i will need a case does someone know one that has enough space for a big battery and prefferably a wristrest any suggestions are welkom

  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    Instead of a big battery, get Qi charging coils and a large charging mat. Now your keyboard is constantly charged when on your desk.

    • Gumshoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Or get a 3rd MCU to use as a dongle so that acts as the more power hungry central board. Even with tiny 110mAh batteries, that’ll give you 3 months of battery life with a pair of nice!nano2s.

        • Gumshoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          9 months ago

          No, you can setup a dongle with bluetooth. In a regular zmk setup with nice!nanos or whatever bluetooth MCU, the two halves communicate wirelessly over bluetooth, a central one that does all the calculating of what key presses to actually send, and a peripheral that just sends raw keystrokes to the central one. But with a dongle setup, you’d get a 3rd MCU that you plug into the computer that acts as a central board without any keys that has 2 peripheral boards it communicates with. Because you’ll keep that 3rd MCU plugged into the computer, it won’t need its own battery or even any components, it can just be a bare MCU. You could also make a case for it if you wanted:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwsutNf1WRA&t=721s

    • yes@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      9 months ago

      That sounds interesting but im also planning on taking this to school so a big ish battery is nice to have but i havent heard of that and that seems like a cool thing to have but can i put that mat under my deskmat and it still charge?

      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        As long as it’s properly aligned it should work through a mat, it works through phone cases. Even thick ones.

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