Peripherals Mechanical Keyboards

Keychron have open-sourced made available the housings for their entire product line

https://github.com/Keychron/Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design/tree/main

I guess we could remix and print that left-numpad 100% ISO board now?

EDIT - See Gareth's post below

 

Bugger! My Majestouch II is by far the best keyboard I have ever owned. I had hoped to stay with Filco, when it expires.

 

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, I'm after a wireless keyboard for downstairs, I don't want to break the bank, I just got a no name brand one and it's disappointing.

My media center one is Bluetooth and the delay on it is unstable.

I just require it to not be full sized, and ideally a back lit keyboard the room I'm in only had a table lamp.

Like I said I don't want to break the bank it's going to be used only a few times a month, when I'm playing wow on TV ect

 

Breaking the bank is an easy thing to do with keyboards, especially mechanical ones!

I think you just need a wireless keyboard that uses a 2.4ghz USB dongle for the connection. I’ve got an old Corsair K63 I use with the lap-pad attachment for gaming on the couch and there is no lag with that. A search on the rainforest brings up lots of options at all price points. I have had good experience with Keychron, but have heard good things about Royal Kludge and Red Dragon, which are usually cheaper.

 

Aye, something with a 2.4GHz dongle will be fine, bonus points if the same receiver can be used for both keyboard and mouse.

Trying to find a “sofa gaming friendly” keyboard & mouse is a tall order. I’ve been looking a while… You’d be better off with something like a lap tray, or a sofa table/tray, and a “standard” KB & mouse. It’s a lot more flexible than trying to find something like the Lapboard. In that case, any one of an innumerable number of cheap 60% mechanical keyboards will be fine. 75% is probably the largest I’d personally want, if an F-key row is a necessity, and I’d say TKL/80% (e.g., full size Home/End cluster) is the absolute maximum you’d want - and that’s pushing it, tbh. The only real requirements are a 2.4GHz dongle instead of Bluetooth, and I would strongly strongly recommend hot-swappable switches. A quick search on the rainforest shows examples as low as £30.