Mechanical keyboard

Topics: Keyboard

Mechanical keyboards use individual mechanical switches for their keys, providing tactile and acoustic feedback.

Advantages of mechanical keyboards

Mechanical keyboards make touch typing easier by providing better acoustic and tactile feedback.

See also Why get a mechanical keyboard? by TaeKeyboards.

Custom keyboards are built in a very laborious process.

Topics

• Building a Mechanical Keyboard
• Keyboard vendor
• Keyboard Group-Buys
• Ergonomic keyboards
• Keyboard layouts
• Keyboard keycaps

Specific keyboards

• Lily58
• Kyria
• Corne
• Planck
• M0llY
• Saturn60

Reference

• [The Obsessive Pleasures of Mechanical-Keyboard Tinkerers

  The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-obsessive-pleasures-of-mechanical-keyboard-tinkerers)

• Shift Happens, a book about mechanical keyboards
• Explaining why your keyboard feels so darn good—or way too mushy