> As someone with an affinity for both wireless devices and mechanical keyboards, I am saddened that wireless mechanical keyboards are few and far between.<p>There are two reasons for this. First, mechanical keyboards are generally larger than other keyboards, which makes them less portable.<p>Secondly, mechanical keyboards are oftentimes used by professional gamers, and for their use case, wireless just doesn't cut it. Higher latency (and more importantly - higher <i>variance</i> latency), as well as multi-key rollover[0]<p>That said, as someone who owns two Das keyboards and hates typing on laptop keyboards (or, worse, on tablet screens), I'm very happy to see this!<p>[0] Even the Das keyboards don't support n-key rollover over USB; you need to use PS/2 cables, IIRC: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_%28key%29" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_%28key%29</a>
I'm confused as why you wouldn't just use a USB breakout board and a bluetooth or serial modem (e.g. [1]). Having to desolder every key seems like an immense amount of work and risk of error. At any rate, an awesome hack. I love my Das Keyboard, and wireless wouldn't hurt (gaming isn't my use-case).<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12700" rel="nofollow">https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12700</a>
I have different problem - keyboard I love doesn't come as wired keyboard, only wireless. I want something to turn into wired one. Why? Because wireless microsoft keyboards aren't secure. And I'm talking about Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard...
I too wish there were more out of the box solutions for these. I also wish more keyboards separated the keypad from the main keyboard. I like to stay centered in front of the monitor, which means necessarily the number pad makes the whole thing asymmetrical and knocks into the mouse (I have a very narrow desk).<p>I'm surprised they're not more common, because many of my programmer friends also prefer mechanical keyboards. At that point latency seems irrelevant? It doesn't appear mechanical keyboards are intrinsically less suited to being wireless...
Off-topic, but something that surprised me: This site comes up blank/empty here. I assume it's ublock - haven't tested that.<p>I did look at the source of the page and .. whoa.
Can someone explain to me what<p>meta og:description (more or less the whole text, I guess)<p>meta itemprop="description" (as above, a full copy)<p>meta twitter:descrption (a third one..)<p>are? Is that normal? Sane? I've never seen that before.<p>Plus, meta description is .. present but empty. The body starts roughly 600 lines into the document.
since no one has mentioned it, there's this <a href="http://matias.ca/laptoppro/mac/" rel="nofollow">http://matias.ca/laptoppro/mac/</a>. IMO, it's the perfect solution for a portable mechanical keyboard. It's small, so you can throw in your bag and have it with you always, and the rechargeable batteries inside this thing are seriously impressive. I last recharged mine about 9 months ago and I use it all day every day.
An interesting project, and a nice result, but I'm curious about the goal of not having inscriptions on the keys? You may not look down at the keyboard when typing but what if someone else needs to use it or for whatever reason you cant focus? It seems like needless one-upping, even their website seems to acknowledge that its really only for showing off...