SA in 2024: Where does the high-profile king stand in the modern keyboard hobby?
In early 2021, I only had eyes for SA Godspeed. Raised in Florida across the bay from Cape Canaveral, I grew up watching space shuttle launches, and my dad’s life-long obsession with NASA, space and sci-fi quickly spread to me. At 27, I was introduced to Neil Armstrong, a personal hero, and was able to tell him the impact he had on me and my family. So on that fateful spring day when I walked into my IT department and told my coworkers that I was thinking of getting into mechanical keyboards, the first set I wanted to own was Godspeed. It took awhile, and I mean awhile for me to accumulate all the different versions of that set. It has three alphas (Solar, Lunar and Supernova), a few full alternates (Mito & Genespeed) and several alternate modifier sets including the transcendent Ares colorway. But several hundred dollars, and many months later, I had constructed a few keyboards all equipped with different versions of SA Godspeed. I made an Earth keyboard, a Mars, an Asteroid, a...
Feb 21, 2024
- Do not waste time on the Linux version of the qmk tool - there is no Linux version... ;)
- You probably want to download the bootloader file on the link above. In Windows10/IE you have to use the right mouse button with "save target" (or something similar in your language). Rename the file from ".txt" to ".hex" or the qmk tool will not see it.
- On my Windows 10 the qmk toolbox crashes while loading the planck stock firmware ("could not create ssl/tls secure channel"). Here is the direct download link:
https://qmk.fm/compiled/planck_light_default.hex
After finishing the bootloader the Planck will show up as "Atmel Corp. at90usb AVR DFU bootloader", but will not not get the default firmware flashed:
However - now finally fire up your Linux again and type into the root of your qmk_firmware (see https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/planck) repo:
"sudo make planck/light:default:dfu" (You might skip the 'sudo' command if you have set the access rights for your serial devices correctly...)
... and you're done!... ;)