Rust firmware for the dilemma v2 keyboard

PXL_20230603_221534290.TS.2.mp4

Rusty dilemma is firmware for the Dilemma v2 split keyboard written in Rust using the Embassy framework.

This firmware does a fair amount of 'fun' things such as supporting an external display (and using the awesome Slint GUI library to do the drawing (and anti-aliased fonts are nice)), also the per key rgb animations are pretty damn pretty in my opinion :)

Layout

Features

• Normal keypresses, mod taps, layers, chords, mouse keys
• Cirque trackpad support, with support for using it to scroll
• Some pretty neopixel animations (that sync between sides, and transition smoothly)
• Support for a st7789 display, using slint to render the UI
• Single firmware binary, everything works no matter which side is plugged in
• Double tapping the update button puts the mcu into dfu mode
• The device pretends to be a RP Pico and supports being put into DFU mode by picotool

Building

You'll need cargo and picotool installed

• cargo build --release -Zbuild-std=core,alloc,panic_abort -Zbuild-std-features=panic_immediate_abort
  • It's fine to use just cargo build --release here, the extra parameters just make the binary a bit smaller.
• picotool load -f ./target/thumbv6m-none-eabi/release/boot
  • The bootloader only needs flashing the first time
• picotool load -f ./target/thumbv6m-none-eabi/release/binary
• picotool reboot

(You can use either the nix flake or install picotool yourself)

Keymaps

You can use https://github.com/simmsb/keylayout to generate key layouts (and also generate previes of them), check out the one I use