Mechanical Keyboards

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Open Source Laptop with Mechanical Keyboard (www.crowdsupply.com)

submitted 1 day ago by shifty@leminal.space to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

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"A new 12.5" open hardware laptop that is future-proof, modular, and highly performant"

Mechanical Keyboard Details

Standard stagger, 80 keys
Kailh Choc Brown switches
N-key rollover
Layout: QWERTY-US, laser-etched legend (international keycap sets available)
Custom MBK Glows keycaps by FKcaps
Customizable RGB backlight
Raspberry Pi RP2040 controller
OLED screen for system control functions
Open source firmware

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[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The keyboard has me interested as I cannot stand modern laptop keyboards being a big mechanical keyboard fan.

I would hope that they would do the option to solder your own switches as I am not the biggest fan of the browns plus I would really want to lube my switches.

They seem to make the PCB opensource so I guess I could just get a PCB printed and do it myself but its extra expense. However I would be very tempted to redesign the layout as I really do not like that layout at all as it has way too many keys for me to be useful. I also prefer 3u/1u/3u for my space-bar setup.

As its using v2 chocs it should take DSA MX stem keycaps without it fouling the screen but I would like that confirmed from them. As I already have a ton of 40% keyboards I have a number of DSA sets that would fit as those sizes are pretty standard for "normal" mechanical keyboards.You would lose the shine thru but I see that as a bonus

Final thing, it would have been nice if it was running QMK via VIAL for the keyboard, would make it easy for me to port my standard map to it. However I do like that you can configure the keyboard directly, always prefer that to having to remap in Linux.