Coming sometime in Q1 2027, hardware vendor Keychron recently announced a new project to bring open-source firmware to mice named ZGM — Zephyr Gaming Mouse. In a post on X/Twitter they said “Open source isn’t marketing for us. It’s the default”.
Their first mouse planned to ship with it will be the “G6 HE”
ZGM Key Features
- Zephyr-Powered
Built on Zephyr RTOS for broad MCU and peripheral support, scalable build tooling, and a maintainable embedded project ecosystem suited to layered hardware abstraction. - Modular Architecture
A modular driver architecture supports multiple hardware variants. Sensor, button, scroll wheel, and lighting drivers are decoupled layers — swap or extend without rewriting. - Low-Latency Input
Performance-first input handling with optimized sensor polling, precise button and click processing, and tuned scroll wheel integration for competitive-grade responsiveness. - Wired & Wireless
First-class support for both wired USB and wireless architectures, with battery and power management built in. Choose the connection that fits your setup. - Open Source
GPL-3.0 licensed and fully transparent. Inspect the code, contribute improvements, or fork it for your own builds. Building on the open-source culture of QMK and ZMK. - Built by Keychron
Backed by Keychron’s hardware expertise, with community visibility from day one. Transparent project direction and a practical validation workflow for real hardware.
This should be quite interesting – especially if other hardware vendors end up using it. More open source is never a bad thing, exciting! Might have to look at the G6 HE when it eventually ships next year.
🌐 External Sources: x.com/KeychronMK (..9968), zgm.gg
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.