Read more.First demonstration of these 16.7 million colour illuminated keyswitches will be held at CES2014.
Read more.First demonstration of these 16.7 million colour illuminated keyswitches will be held at CES2014.
Cherry and Corsair. Match made in heaven. Can't wait to see what else they have in store for us.
No doubt these will be very nice....and painfully expensive. I'll be keeping my K90 until it dies. It may only be 80% mechanical, but that doesnt bother me.
For readers thinking of the upgrade from the spongy hell of membrane boards....just do it. Totally worth it.
As far as I can tell, the only way in which these differ from existing Cherry MX switches with backlighting is that with these, the keyswitch housing acts as a lightpipe for SMT LEDs on the mounting board, whereas existing keyswitches have a cavity to allow a through-hole LED to pass through. It might marginally decrease assembly costs, but as you already need to pick&place and wave-solder the through-hole Cherry switches anyway, you don't actually get to skip any assembly steps. SMT LEDs are slightly cheaper, I guess?
The existing Cherry Switches can only accept 2 wire LEDs so are restricted to a fixed colour. These new ones allow 3 wires so you can use the variable colour LEDs.
I was looking towards purchasing a Ducky Shine 3 with Brown Keys and White LED shortly, but now I think I might wait on these. But it's likely to be quite a wait for retail availability.
WHITE KEYSWITCHES we want whit keyswitches!
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