Sol 3 with capacitive touchbars

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Sol 3 with capacitive touchbars

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

KBD.news
Published April 23, 2021

Would you like to contribute to this year's MK Advent Calendar? Here are the guidelines for authors, along with last year's edition for reference.

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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