You deserve a good keyboard.
You spend your days at a keyboard. It is among the most universal of tools in our modern world. No matter what you make, your keyboard is an integral part of how you practice your craft. You deserve a good keyboard.
Yes, I do!Your setup.Your choice.
FEEL IT. MASTER IT.
A LUXURIOUS HARDWOOD ENCLOSURE
We’ve been making wooden keyboards since some of our earliest prototypes a decade. While they’re eye-catching, what matters to us is how comfortable they feel. Each enclosure by her natural variation in grain will ensure that your Model will have a gorgeous and unique personality.
Typing on The Model 100ㅤ
STRETCH LESS, TYPE MORE.
From the positions of the keys to the shapes of the keycaps to the shape of the enclosure, we built the Model 100 to give you the best possible typing experience.
ORTHOGONAL
Because when you extend a finger, it doesn‘t go sideways. We've aligned the Model 100's keys in columns so they're easier to reach without having to contort your fingers.
CUSTOM SCULPTED KEYCAPS
Most keyboard are build with keycap with generic shapes. We wanted something better, so we designed our own. It took hundreds of hours of engineering, but we’ve made keycaps that actually help you type better.
(And it also dramatically reduces the learning curve for those of us who never learned "proper" typing.)
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HOT-SWAPPABLE
SOCKETS
The Model 100 features hot-swap sockets designed to let you remove the switches
with a standard
keyswitch puller and replace them with just about any MX-style switch, no soldering or
disassembly
required.
MECHANICAL KEYSWITCHES
Choose yours...
LINEAR
Switches with uninterrupted key travel and minimal spring force – for fast reactivity and an ultra-smooth typing feeling.
CLICKY
Provides a gratifying, audible click and tactile feedback with every keystroke for a familiar mechanical feel and sound.
TACTILE
Switches with a satisfying tactile bump you feel for precise feedback, reactive key reset, and less noise so your typing doesn’t disturb those around you.
PROGRAMMABLE BACKLIGHTING
We've placed an independently programmable RGB LED underneath each and every key on the keyboard. Out of the box, the Model 100 can breathe, glow and do cute rainbow fade animations with the best of them, but the neat part is that each and every one of those LEDs is end-user controllable.
Graphical Configurator
Chrysalis, our cross-platform graphical configuration tool. With support for point-and-click key remapping, custom shortcuts, layout backup and restore, and an upcoming interface for creating macros. Chrysalis makes customizing your key layout and LED themes easy and convenient.
Chrysalis is, of course, fully open source. You can always download it here
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THE LEARNING CURVE
We're not going to beat around the bush. If you’ve never used a split keyboard with the keys arranged in columns, it might take a little bit of practice to get up to speed on the Model 100.
Most Model 01 typists told us that they started to get familiar with the layout within a few hours. True mastery of the layout is an investment that can take a month or two to really start to pay off.
To give you a sense of the size and shape of the Model 100, we've created a life-size printable paper Model 100. Just download this PDF and hit print.
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The Model 100 is an updated and improved version of the sold-out Model 01, now with hot-swappable MX-compatible switches and a luxurious walnut enclosure.
(100% of those who will receive their keyboard started by pre-ordering itㅤ;)
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ABOUT US
In a nutshell...
We make super comfortable keyboards that are beautiful and hackable.
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Why We Made It?
We come from different backgrounds, but all of us have spent most of our work lives (and a good deal of our personal lives) in front of a computer. Keyboards are the fastest, most accurate way to get information into a computer. Still, most keyboards out there just aren't very good: they're uncomfortable, unattractive, and poorly made. We want to change that with Keyboardio.
The Model 01 is our first product, and like all our products, it will ship with "source code and a screwdriver". We believe hardware should be open - you should have access to the firmware so you can make it better. We also believe hardware should be beautiful and work well right out of the box. Basically it's the keyboard we always wanted, but had to build ourselves.
Founding Story
Jesse created the first prototype of what would become the Keyboardio Model 01 as a hobby project, because he wanted a better keyboard. Since then, we've been through dozens of prototypes, read hundreds of pages of ergonomics research, set one 3D printer on fire, and conducted long-term tests with some wonderful beta testers.
Kaia and Jesse co-founded Keyboardio to bring beautiful keyboards to the world. They met when Kaia saw a tiny Vaio laptop Jesse was using and she just needed to learn more - you might say working on consumer electronics together is destiny. Their strengths are complementary: Jesse has experience building amazing open technologies that help people work better; Kaia has experience in finance, operations, strategy, and marketing. And they've been married since 2007.
Keyboardio's first product, the Model 01, was developed while at Highway1, a hardware incubator based in San Francisco but with Shenzhen roots. We’re also supported by angel investments from people who’ve used their keyboards to change the world, including early engineers at Twitter and Nest, the founder of a dozen local newspapers, and the founder of Poetica.
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