I like the glove80, but I don’t want my keyboard to have any lights on it, and I want blank keycaps
I feel like I could find it for much cheaper without these things, but I also want it to have that instant actuation/deactuation found in certain gaming keyboards that makes the latency effectively tiny
Is there anything like this on the market? I can’t find anything.
Turn off the lights and get it with blank keycaps.
I haven’t seen this keyboard before, but:
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It looks like it uses “MCC” form factor keycaps, of which blanks can be purchased.
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Most keyboards with LEDs have a way to toggle them off, and it looks like this is also true of that keyboard. You could just flip them off.
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Like the Glove80 in what way?
There’s nothing else that’s exactly like it.I guess the Kinesis Advantage360 is the most similar, but it’s still quite different.
I just want the most ergonomic possible setup that I don’t have to DIY, I got the ergodox ez wayyy back and the thumb cluster sucks, people are talking about how the glove80 is basically a perfect version of it, i love weird shape of it.
Only thing I want to add to it is this: https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/platform
I just hate having lights and labels on my keyboard.
Personally I find the Glove80 very comfortable. But I also wanted it for the rest of its features. So it depends on what are you looking for in a keyboard / what are your priorities.
You can also just keep the lights off and get the blank keycaps for the Glove80.
The keycaps are a part of this keyboard’s cost (Keebio prices a similar set that comes with Cepstrum at $52), though it’s not easy to find choc-spaced keycaps for cheap unless you 3d-print them.
The primary drivers for the cost are likely the R&D work behind the keyboard and that it’s a keywell (with more complicated assembly process).
Perhaps you could get a used one - IIRC there was a channel on MoErgo’s discord.
If you mean the thing for strafing, there was a QMK pull request, though this is now being hastily banned from just about every competitive game. If you mean hall effect switches, I’m not aware of any keywell keyboards with them - there’s just a single 58-key (Lucca 58-HE) as far as column-staggered boards go.
There is nothing like that in the market. You can just never turn on the rgb and swap to blanks. That being said it’s a uniform profile so you can move them around wherever you want to match your actual keymap.
