I have been using KinT controllers in my Advantage2 keyboards. However, I have been a bit worried about the availability of Teensy MCUs. I have been using Teensy LCs, but they are pretty much out of stock until 2024 and may never get in stock again. Teensy 4.0 and 4.2 controllers go for 30-40 Euro, which is pretty insane in a world of 4 Euro Raspberry Pi Picos.
At any rate, I’d like to keep some spares in case one of the controllers breaks. Moreover, I have been wishing for USB-C, since I am a Mac user. Luckily, /u/dj_edit made a KinT fork that uses the Black Pill microcontroller that is readily available for a few bucks and best of all has USB-C.
So, this week I got the PCBs and converted my first Advantage from vanilla KinT to KinT Black Pill:
I also ported their Vial support over to QMK, which required some changes to work with the latest QMK (mostly porting over stuff to info.json):
https://github.com/danieldk/qmk_firmware/tree/danieldk/keyboards/kinesis/kintbp
The USB-C mount is one from the series of mounts that I found on Amazon and discussed in this Reddit post
