rhombus

This. It seems to be more and more common now; the community always seems to put out better software in the end. I'm still mucking around with the code, but I plan on forking the project and doing an animation with some pan/zoom/rotate features against a .png file. At the very least, the author gave me something to tinker with. :D: I'm kinda curious about the keyboard now... a lot of the 32 bit ARM micros have built in USB hosts as well as Ethernet and a bunch of other peripherals. You might be able to hack one of these into a small remote net terminal with enough patience with coding and a soldering iron. :)

I think I'll start simple... i haven't even looked at the animation files yet to see how you've implemented this. Do you assign colors on a per-key basis, or are the keys all mapped to an X,Y space with the actual key coordinates hardcoded into the driver/userland binary?

I went back and read every page of this thread, and it looks like ckb does need to stay up and running in order for the animations to take place. I guess it isn't so bad, it does minimize to the tray and all. ;) I'll take a look at the animation files to understand how they are written. I'd love to implement something where the user can use a .png and have the animation zoom/scroll/rotate/etc across the keys. If this is not possible or already in the works, let me know. :)

First of all, huge thanks for writing this driver. It appears to work in the sense that I can actually use the keyboard in non-BIOS mode now, and when inside the `ckb` utility, i can create new animations modes and what not and they display nicely on the keyboard. But that is where I am stuck. When I exit the ckb UI, the animations stop. Surely it isn't intended that we leave the UI up in the background is it? I figure that I am doing something fundamentally wrong, or perhaps the driver and/or keyboard is in a weird state that needs to be cleared. For info purposes, I have the K70. I noticed that I have a /dev/input/ckb0 and a ckb1. Is this normal for having a single keyboard?