In the market for a new keyboard! Browsing around is giving me choice paralysis so I’m looking for recommendations.

Musts:
- dedicated backtick / tilde key

Likes:
- compact layout
- media keys (on layer)
- topre / topre-like aka thocky switches
- home / end keys

Dislikes:
- RGB
- having to replace batteries

I wound up buying a gently used Quick Fire Rapid-I (above) to harvest the USB controller to fix my beloved NovaTouch (below).

I got the idea from digging deep in old Reddit threads of someone thinking to do this.

After rearranging the pins to match the NovaTouch, I’m ecstatic to report that it works! 🥹

father, husband, css booster, ux engineer, silently defining variables at /sdv

On this journey I found another obscure forum post, but from a person who fabricates USB C daughterboards for this board. 

I reached out and they were super helpful in guiding me through the repinning process. They also informed me of KeyCon which is in SLC and just a few days away!!!

Bless strangers on the internet.