This split keyboard looks pretty cool, but the best thing about it are the OLED screens in the keycaps.
Once you buy a keyboard, you’re usually stuck with whatever is on the keycaps unless you want to change them. However, there’s a lot of potential in using screens in keycaps to make fully customizable keyboards.
Modding keyboard keys to add tiny screens is a good way to make the whole keyboard highly customizable and flexible. Whether you just want to do something fun with it, change some letters out for symbols, or even change the language entirely, there’s a lot that can be done to make for a more enjoyable user experience.
Related Videos Thpoll’s project is referred to as the PolyKybd. It’s a mechanical split keyboard, and each keycap comes with a little OLED screen embedded inside of it. Using OLED for this is a wise choice — those panels are easier to integrate into such a small space because they’re thinner than LCD. OLED also has better contrast ratios, which should make the letters or symbols come out looking intensely bright.
Thpoll 3D printed the case and sourced the PCB and the majority of the other components online. The modder admitted that adding support for languages that use symbols, such as Japanese, Korean, and Arabic, has been pretty difficult. Ultimately, once Thpoll overcomes all the obstacles, he says that any keyboard layout will be possible on the PolyKybd. This includes uses that aren’t strictly limited to typing.
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