User's Guide

Customizing key layout and swapping keycaps
Customizing key layout
Each of us has a different hand size and shape, typing habits, and different application needs.
Glove80 and its open-source ZMK-based firmware make it easy for you to customize your
Glove80 to have exactly the key layout you want.
There are a few ways to change the key layout. The easiest way is to use the UI Configurator.
An alternative is to edit the keymap file and compile your own ZMK firmware For more
information on this, please see Appendix: ZMK.
After you have built a new ZMK firmware with the new key layout using either approach, you will
have to load the firmware onto Glove80. To do this, follow the instructions in the Loading the
new ZMK firmware onto your Glove80 section.
UI Configurator
<This section is to be written - it is currently incomplete>
Nick Coutsos’ excellent open-source ZMK Keymap Editor has been customized for Glove80.
Loading the new ZMK firmware onto your Glove80
The UI Configurator will generate a .uf2 file which is the new firmware containing the new key
layout. We have to load this new firmware onto both halves of your Glove80.
To do this safely, please prepare:
- A spare keyboard or on-screen keyboard
- The USB-A to USB-C cable
The steps to load the new firmware is:
1. First plug in the USB-A to USB-C cable to the left half of your Glove80.
2. Put the left half into bootloader mode. On the default key layout, this is done by pressing
the keys Magic + Esc. If you have changed this in your layout, please see the section
on Putting Glove80 into Bootloader for Firmware Loading.
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