Type K - Tented Ergo keyboard (03/08/2023 - GB DATE AND PRICING ANNOUNCED)

Looks lovely. But too expensive for my wallet :(

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This is just a rip-off. The market is veering towards good quality, more affordable boards and this guy comes up with a 800 bucks bland-ass board.
- I like the design but yea the price is insanely high for this keyboard.
I wish someone would make a nice tented unisplit like this with an actual ergo layout.
- Sadek, from fingerpunch, designs a unibody case for their Ximi board.
- The keyboard.io team is working on a Model-100-but-one-tented-piece, but it’s still pretty early in the development process. Obra has shown CAD screenshots on their discord!
  
  I did see that and it looks cool, but is it actually a tented PCB, or is the tent part of the keycap sculpt?
- You mean like a Kinesis Advantage2 (and its predecessors)? Monoblock, 20 degree built-in tenting, thumb keys and key wells.
  
  (The linked keyboard looks quite bad from an ergonomics perspective. It has quite large positive tilt, which is bad for your wrists.)
That's exciting! I've been keeping an eye out on the Type K since the IC was posted on GH.

It's a shame that the base price and short groupbuy window is going to exclude a lot of folks from picking it up.
- Yeah, it’s really a shame it’s not a little bit better priced. But maybe if the board is a success a manufacturer will create something similar.
Link?

Edit: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=107031.0
- Thanks. Could’ve sworn I added it.

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