Tag: hotswap (73 entries)
A nice low-profile keyboard: I reviewed the XVX L75 Air – 75% wireless, featuring a sleek aluminum case and introducing new low-pro IMD keycaps.
Two brand-new EV63 variants have been released recently: the Ghost in the Shell-themed Shell Core and Cyber Blue. For this review, I took a closer look at the latter.
Ergohaven's Space Mission 30 is now fully open-source.
Timo's Tiwaz is an ortho split gaming keyboard with joysticks and gaskets.
The retro, mid-century modern Epomaker Glyph is a typewriter-style tri-mode wireless keyboard with huge displays.
Ergohaven's wireless split Omega Point 36 is now open source.
I reviewed KiiBOOM's Phantom 98 Lite, a cute wireless keyboard with 1800-ish layout and the silly froggy keycap design.
A very affordable magnetic board punching above its weight: Epomaker HE68 Lite review.
A 38-key split keyboard with trackpoint: Alatus by DoomishGuy.
SKZBadHabit's MMOrtho is a handwired unibody split build with a custom configurator.
The Hector36 is a compact wireless split keyboard by ezxzeng – with splay.
The Dareu Cool68 is a 65% magnetic gamer keyboard with very nice housing design, featuring unique ambient light diffusers.
Testing KiiBOOM's wireless Phantom 98 keyboard. An acrylic beauty, nicely matching the cool Pixelpop Arcade keycap set.
A 36-key split keyboard with rotary encoders and hardware debouncing: Cirrus40 by schuay.
Konstantin Goncharuk's 65% Splinter is a split keyboard with horizontal staggering – wired or wireless.
Redragon's tri-mode wireless Behemoth K724 Pro is a 75% keyboard with display and rotary knob.
Two Sweep derivatives with splay: RAII by unspecworks – wired or wireless.
Nick Coughlin's Ground Control 40 is a 40% open-source ortho keyboard designed for rapid prototyping.
The tri-mode wireless Womier SK80 Pro comes with Great Wave overdose, including a matching mouse pad and wrist rest.
A spartan split keyboard with some considerable pinky offset: Underset by humanplayer2.
The Snake is a 40% semi-ortho keyboard. PCB by 1000eyes, extra case by Technofrikus.
A 36-key monoblock split based on the Yolochka: Yolochka Remastered by turtle_bazon – with PCB.
The wireless Ashwing64 by Flexyjerkov is a 64-key monoblock keyboard with exposed diodes.
MagoSaronno's split Keyther is a Cantor-derivative – halves connected by an Ethernet cable.
Displays on keyboards? The retro-looking Epomaker RT82 is raising the stakes with a detachable TV.
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