[!info] In development… Stage: Design.

Guts and their cost

• 1х Nordic Nrf52840 dongle with an Oled screen :bongocat: - 1500 rubles
• 2x Controllers, chinese knockoffs shaped like nice!nano v2, also on nrf52840 - 1300 rubles
• 58х Kailh 1350 hotswap sockets - ~500 rubles
• 58х Kailh Deep sea silent low profile switches - 2000 rubles
• 58х 1N4148 diodes - 100 rubles
• 2х 503450 1000mah batteries - 200 rubles (bulk)
• 2x toggle switches - 10 rubles (bulk)
• screws-threaded inserts-wires - pennies, since they’re only bought by the hundreds or thousands
• battery connectors - 2 rubles (bulk)
• a couple hundred grams of PETG plastic - 200 rubles? == ~<6000 rubles

• lots of person-hours for development and assembly, various tools and equipment

A contraption with no PCB - hardcore handwired In general i don’t see any point in making a PCB for mechanical boards at all, that’s only done for mass production because it’s just faster and cheaper that way, doesn’t mean better or higher quality. Without a PCB you can also slap together whatever fucking keyboard shape you want, change key heights and angles and so on

The software here is ZMK The charge should supposedly last up to several months of daily work-gaming at 15h a day. (the calculator guesses nearly 10 months, but let’s be realistic)