Price: $249.99
(as of Apr 25, 2025 09:38:11 UTC – Details)
True Ergonomic Design: Features a split keyboard layout that promotes natural shoulder positioning, reducing back pain by allowing shoulder blades to relax naturally. Independent Keyboard Halves: Offers the ability to use each half of the keyboard separately, providing a customizable ergonomic setup. Enhanced Thumb Functionality: Includes six programmable thumb keys on each side, allowing for more versatile key assignments. Hot-Swappable: Comes with a switch puller for easy switch replacement, enabling personalized typing experiences and customization without the need for soldering. Premium Build Quality: Features an aluminum switch plate encased in durable acrylic plates. Durable DSA Profile PBT Keycaps: Equipped with high-quality keycaps that resist wear, shine, and yellowing, ensuring long-lasting texture and appearance. VIA Firmware Compatibility: Allows for real-time keyboard configuration, including layouts, layers, and lighting adjustments, without complex software. USB Type-C Connectivity: Offers state-of-the-art USB Type-C connectivity, ensuring fast and reliable connections with both modern and legacy devices. Layer Indicator Screen: Features a layer indicator screen that offers immediate visual feedback on the active keyboard layer. Customizable RGB Backlighting: Features customizable backlighting with a full spectrum of colors.
True Ergonomic Design: Features a split ortholinear keyboard layout that promotes natural shoulder positioning
Independent Keyboard Halves: Offers the ability to use each half of the keyboard separately
Six programmable thumb keys on each side for versatile key assignments
Hot-swappable switches for easy customization
Layer Indicator Screen with QMK/VIA Firmware programmabilty for layout, macros, and backlighting
USB-C Connectivity with independently functioning halves. Left or Right master, or either half individually.
Simon –
More than just a keyboard
As a keyboard it is a keyboard that you need to train yourself on a little.
With QMK you can configure the keyboard to your hearts desire, so as perfect as you make it.
Here is a look at the profiles (layers) I have set up;
1. qwerty
a. (sub) F1 – F12 (reverts after single key press) with TRANS
b. (sub) F13 – F24 (reverts after single key press) with TRANS
2. mouse and led customisation
3. joystick – keys set as 32 joystick buttons (mirrored on left and right sides). Keyboard registers as gaming device.
Had to move buttons used as wasd to esdf for comfort and function. Setting gaming functionality for these “buttons” is done using a 3rd party application called Xpadder.
This board replaces my normal qwerty keyboard as well as the Razer Tartarus (incl nostromo N52 and other half keyboards for gaming). I currently prefer the form of the Tartarus but the function of the Hot Dox, and once programmed you can remove all of the QMK software (no bloatware, no always online, etc unlike Synapse). With just a little time I believe I will like the form and the function more than any other device I have ever used.
Install the QMK software locally for maximum programability as the web-based VIA and QMK dont go as deep.
Logan DeHart –
Great intro to split keyboards
The keyboard quality is excellent, easy software to use for customization of keys and their functions. Connectivity is easy and reliable due to it being USB-C, and while the keycaps are very nice and have a good texture to them, the switches themselves left something to be desired in terms of feel.
Jeremy –
Good but inconsisntant
I do like this keyboard; QMK is a must-have for me. I have to knock off a few stars because this board is a little squirrelly. When I plug it in, I have to unplug it a few times before the board actually “works.” Sometimes, one half will work and the other will not or nothing works at all. I had a key setup to turn off and on the RGB, but that only worked for one side of the board. When I update the configuration, sometimes I’ll have to do this a few times for it to take. If I plug in the cables in a different configuration, the layers may not work.
mohammad zarechian –
very nice
after lots of research I got this, dont regret it
A. Newman –
Good keyboard with a weird firmware feature
Out of the box, this displays the keys that you most recently typed in the right hand LCD. That includes when you just typed your password. It’s the sort of feature that sounds neat but doesn’t really make any sense.
If you dig around online and are pretty handy with code you can flash the firmware with that hacked out. I replaced it with a sort of character per second chart that shows me how fast I’ve been typing.
Joel Webster –
keycaps are semi translucent and getting firmware source can be found
I like this keyboard a lot after flashing with some changes to support tap dance with QMK w/VIA support.
I have swapped keycaps and has made the keyboard work well enough while saving ~ $100 over an ergodox-ez, I do like the zsa setup more like on the moonlander, but I do not regret the purchase and a new user that enjoys finding ways to fix things yourself this could be the right keyboard for you
Nadia Paucar –
Cumplió mis expectativas
El producto llegó muy bien, se nota que es de calidad. Ahora estoy tratando de acostumbrarme a esta nueva forma de escribir, pero es excelente teclado