I am a novice and can play with customized keyboards: I am stunned by this mechanical keyboard kit! It is officially announced that the price of customized keyboards has dropped from the altar!

Speaking of player customization, I am indeed a novice. I can't say I understand it, I can only say that I am a novice at this threshold. In the past, the biggest resistance to customized keyboards was the high unit price of customization, which was absolutely impossible for ordinary people.

Usually a set of customized keyboards consists of four parts: kit (housing + PCB + positioning board + sound insulation cotton), shaft body, keycap, and keyboard cable. Among them, the cost of the kit (55%) and the shaft body (20%), the keycap (23%), and the keyboard cable (2%). For many people, the kit is the most important part, which is also the most fundamental reason for determining the price positioning of a mechanical keyboard.

In many cases, the most important thing in the kit is the PCB, which accounts for 40% of the cost. Especially the use of balanced hardware configuration, such as 32bit M3 main control MCU chip, 8MB Flash onboard storage, RGB light control management chip, I/O control chip, etc. will affect the cost of the entire PCB. So the reason why most people don’t play customization is that the water is very deep. If you don’t understand it well or don’t understand it, the price difference of the kit alone can make people dizzy.

Seeing that the official store of the little nerd has launched a crazy kit festival event, and after the little nerd officially announced the DIY of customized kits, I took advantage of this event and bought a set of GK75 kits with 75 configurations. Let’s try it out and see the customization Is the keyboard deep or shallow?

After receiving the express delivery, I couldn't wait to take out a bumble bee tone (metallic color) that I like. On the mechanical switch body, I chose the chocolate V2 key switch. This kit includes a whole positioning board, a warning card, a keyboard book introduction card, an adapter, and a USB-A to USB Type -C connection line.

The shell material of the kit is the kind of translucent gray-black hard shell, and the internal PCB structure can be vaguely seen, which has a sense of cyberpunk technology. The positioning plate made of metal is good in texture, and its stable strength is quite high. There are multiple Phillips screws on the frame of the positioning plate, and it can be disassembled only by unscrewing the screws.

The small bug GK75 kit has two independent satellite shafts on the space bar to maintain balance. There are also reserved holes on both sides of the shaft body to place the satellite shafts on the enter key, delete key and keys in the small keyboard area. Space.

This is the keycap I bought on Taobao. The main color of the keycaps in the functional area is titanium gray, the keycaps in the main keyboard area and the number keys are mainly beige, and the symbol keycaps in the small keyboard area are Gray, ESC key, screenshot key and direction are specially selected orange.

The ESC key has high and low feet, and the recognition on the key is higher, and the feel is also good.

There are two metal knobs in the upper right corner of the small bug GK75 kit. By default, the first knob is volume adjustment, which supports the addition, subtraction and mute of the system volume. The second knob is for zooming in and zooming out the picture. And through the keyboard driver management program of the small bug, it also supports customization, which is a function optimization created by itself.

The nerdy GK75 kit has completely rescued the chaos of customized keyboards, and it also allows novice users to assemble a set of customized mechanical keyboards by themselves. As far as the customized kit of the little bug is concerned at this price, it can be said that there is absolutely no doubt in terms of cost performance.

For users who like hot-swappable switches, they can choose the switch that suits them (green switch, black switch, red switch, brown switch), and the keycap is completely left to the user's self-sufficient choice (PBT keycap, ABS key Caps, PC keycaps), and the unique Lite Gasket sound-absorbing soft cushion of the small nerd can not only bring the effect of sound-absorbing, but also has a soft feel.

Xiaobu has also joined the NORDIC wireless module, which means that the customized kit of three modes (wired, 2.4GHz wireless radio frequency, Bluetooth Bluetooth) has also become possible, and there will be a wireless version with a built-in 4000mAh lithium battery later. customization kit. What I want to say is that I am very grateful to the little idiot. It completely lowers the threshold for customizing the keyboard, so that more white users who are interested in customizing can understand it and no longer be esoteric. Customized parameters and complicated kit structure are confusing.

Friends who are interested in customized keyboards may wish to take advantage of the activities of the Crazy Kit Festival to find out. Maybe a mechanical keyboard suitable for you can be customized just like this. 。