TAIKO 01 Keyboard - Launches Tuesday (June 2)

https://lemmy.world/post/47465897

This one agrees with Sanctus that some kind of mousing access without lifting hands would be good. Maybe an expansion port on the device?

Curious about how much of the space you looked into? These ones have a glove80, which has been a significant improvement to trying to use a laptop keyboard, but which does have any imperfections. From here these ones expected that the next major interface move, if there was another, but this has basically the things that were missing in the g80, from these ones perspective, and these ones would like to confirm details:

The switches are hot swappable, not soldered? The keyboard is entirely wired, with no wireless mode?

Expansion port is a possibility, but it would require a redesign. Not something we’d be able to do with this Kickstarter.

Yes it’s hotswap. Not soldered. Yes the keyboard is entirely wired. No wireless mode.

I understand this is a big deal for people who want to keep their desks clean. We’ll release a wireless one later on. We’re just trying to keep it simple and keep risk low right now. We also don’t know whether there’ll be hiccups with doing a wireless version. We plan to use a pre-certified FCC module but the product itself still needs FCC certification (though it should be easier than not using a pre-certified module). It just so happens the US recently changed regulations on certification so Chinese labs cannot be used. But similar to most hardware products, we need to make our PCBs and do our injection molds in China. From what I’m aware, getting FCC certification can take a few iterations. So as you can imagine, if it takes 2 weeks to ship from China to a non-Chinese lab each iteration, it might take longer than we expect. I don’t want to disappoint backers, so that’s why no wireless. Sorry it’s kind of a long answer.

Edit: Forgot to answer the other part of your question.

“No wireless” is in fact a selling point in this case.

Thanks for answering ^_^

You’re welcome! I’m just curious but is there a particular reason why no wireless is a selling point?
Security mindset; the convenience of wireless does not outweigh a preference against radiating everything you type for some entities. Cables can generally be had to any preferred length, so they aren’t a problem for this specific use case.
That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for letting me know.