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Sol 3 with capacitive touchbars

Sol 3 with two capacitive touchbars, and plenty of RGB by RGBKB.

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Published April 23, 2021
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The Sol 3 by RGBKB comes traditionally with plenty of RGB, but is also available with two capacitive touchbars now.

The optional 4U hotswap touchbars are effectively 5 keys: swipe up/down plus 3 "buttons". Swipe input is great for scrolling, volume or other inputs where a key is pressed several times.

The touchbars require no soldering (hotswappable) and use the MKI2C protocol.

MKI2C is an open-source standard for hotswap i2c, 3.3v modules on compatible keyboards.

Thus, the module can be installed to the keyboard using screws and without soldering.

The touchbar modules take up 4 keys, and provide 3 QMK-programmable touch buttons – with swipe up/down input for 5 total commands.

Fully programmable through QMK, although probably not in the online configurator for a while.

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Published on Fri 23rd Apr 2021. Featured in KBD #23 (source).


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