Pros: Little screens on every key!
Cons: Looks awful and costs a fortune!
Get one today!
Art Lebedev Optimus has entered the chat.
The most over hyped and disappointing keyboard in history
This one looks like an uglier version of Optimus. Not sure if it can be any worse to use, though.
The real ugly Optimus is a bunch of StreamDecks next to each other
Hey… I’ve seen this one… 20 years ago as vaporware
No, they actually made it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard
It was crazy expensive and from what I remember it was making a sound when turned on.
If there were cheap, open source, resin 3d printers with an open slicer, I would be tempted to design a keyboard that uses light pipes and 2-4 LEDs per key to make something like this. Many early electronic display devices worked like this. Like some of the early Apollo program hardware NASA used were just little incandescent bulbs barely more than a Christmas lights. These were angled and projected onto a plastic lens with specially angled facets on the back that created a pathway for one of eight bulbs to create a numerical display. Fran’s Lab on YT tends to show off stuff like this. It should be possible to make a similar light pipe design for multiple key backlights.
I would probably get too side tracked in making printable mechanical keys.
