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Re:Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch by ComputerGuru on Saturday February 16, 2019 @07:34PM (#19181877)
I didn’t like it, despite waiting a couple of years (I think) for mine to ship.

The lack of Esc is just plain stupid and needlessly “special” for a hackers keyboard, especially with zero space constraints. The keys themselves I’m not a fan of, but that’s because nothing beats the buckling spring keys I’m used to - so not counting that against them. Build quality is great, however.

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Re:Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch by neonroku on Saturday February 16, 2019 @09:49PM (#19182386)
Can't you remap one of the other keys to be escape - I think for those who care keyboard layout is highly personal - I can find somebody has designed a keyboard that looks great and then make layout choices I find very strange. But if the keyboard uses qmk then I can easily fix that.

If you're not happy then build your own - or buy a unicomp board and replace the controller so you get the best of both worlds - buckling spring and programmable keyboard.

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