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skarrmann / horizon

52 key ortholinear keyboard, no special features.
MIT License
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question: Power switch if using ZMK/nice!nano #4

Closed mangkoran closed 1 year ago

mangkoran commented 1 year ago

First of all, thank you for your amazing work! I have been daily driving morizon and it's an endgame board for me (ortho, 5x12, Pro-Micro, lower profile than contra. Open-sourced Preonic in a nutshell).

I would like to ask a question regarding ZMK/nice!nano. I saw that you provided ZMK config for horizon/morizon, which implies you have used them with nice!nano. As I couldn't see any Power switch pad on the board, are the boards will always turned on if I decided to use nice!nano? Although ZMK does have sleep features..

skarrmann commented 1 year ago

Hello! I am very glad you are enjoying Morizon.

The current Horizon/Morizon PCB designs do not have a footprint for a power switch. I've used the nice!nano always turned on, and it provided battery life of about 2 weeks of daily use. Personally, I prefer wired keyboards, which is why I did not add wireless-only features to the PCB.

A power switch would be nice for travel and when storing the keyboard. Adding a power switch footprint to the PCB, to the right of the microcontroller board, opposite the reset button, could be a nice design addition. But it's more than I wanted for this simple low profile board design.

Let me know if you have any questions!

mangkoran commented 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing! I am very impressed on how nice!nano managed to have enormous battery life (well might be due to ZMK deep sleep but nonetheless it is with always-turned-on power).

I will close this "issue" ticket then.