Connect as many or as few keys as you like to the Keyword hub in any arrangement you like. But it might end up costly.
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We’ve seen oodles of imaginative and truly excellent mechanical keyboards over recent years, but Keybytes probably offers the greatest flexibility with regard to layout and key selection we’ve ever seen.
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It starts with a Keyword, which is the main board that the Keybits connect to. This central component houses a stacked pair of PCBs. The top board packs an Arm Cortex M4-powered microcontroller , Bluetooth antenna, and flash memory. The lower board offers USB-C , charging, and a buck-boost converter.
Adding keys seems like a cinch. Every Keybit, one of the modular keys, contains a CH32V003 RISC-V microcontroller. Moreover, it features pogo pins on all 4 sides of every key for power and I2C. The case is magnetic so you can connect it to any aspect of the Keyword and other Keybits. Atop the Keybit, a Cherry MX switch is installed. We guess you can follow the GitHub MIT-licensed plans for this project and use your preferred variety of mechanical switches.
On the GitHub project page, there are no more than two Keybits together with a Keyword, so you don’t get to see what crazy layout plans he’s hoping to conjure up. However, it is still early days. Per the project journal, Keybytes only became a thing back in March this year, and it was only over the weekend that the developer got to finally boast “it finally works!!”
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Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/mechanical-keyboards/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/mechanical-keyboards/keybytes-truly-modular-keyboard-starts-with-one-key-and-is-assembled-like-legos-each-magnetic-key-module-has-its-own-risc-v-microcontroller-for-the-ultimate-in-customizability#main
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