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BM Workshop BM43A 40% Programmable Keyboard Kit
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BM Workshop BM43A 40% Programmable Keyboard Kit
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Small enough to take to a friend’s house or the café, the BM Workshop BM43A has just 43 keys. All 43 can be programmed to your liking, too, whether you prefer a more standard key layout or something a little more unconventional Read More
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keyboard_arrow_downSerulean
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Sep 3, 2023
Activities:Work & Gaming
Paired Switch:Linear
Keyboards Owned:12
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PCB died within a week
The PCB has very poor longevity. I took care during soldering and made sure there were no shorts/messes, yet after only a week, it stopped responding. All it does now is glow red.
This was especially upsetting considering how long the kit took to arrive.
Recommends this product? No
wuster07
10
Nov 29, 2022
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Heavy and solid
love how small and compact it is, can be hard trying to match the right keycaps with it though
Recommends this product? Yes
Krmzl
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Nov 7, 2022
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Solid keyboard
It's pretty much solid fort the money, been fun to build as well.
Recommends this product? Yes
wersam518
16
May 23, 2022
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有些案件不好搭配 总体一般
不好搭配案件 而且布局不规则
Recommends this product? No
calerouxz
5
Jan 26, 2022
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Small keyboard with weird bottom row
Mostly, the quality of the board is fine, however do keep in mind the bottom row is slightly moved to the right, which means certain keys are not where you expect them to be. Otherwise, I've made it a daily driver until I find something I like better.
crispernaki
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Sep 18, 2021
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Yes, it's tricky to find the right size keycaps (the 1.25U tab, gosh!) and it's not hot-swap (one could always add sockets) and there isn't a reset button, (but the contact points are there on the bottom of the PCB and MO+ESC works too) and all that stuff.
The bummer was needing to replace two of the surface mount diodes (one looked cracked and the second was just never there in the first place, so I guess technically it couldn't be replaced).
There doesn't seem to be any other issues now that the diodes are squared away. I'll probably come back and add backlight LEDs to hopefully help navigate the regular layer usage, but maybe it will all just make sense.
I'm kinda scared.
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TheFr0g
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Jan 26, 2022
crispernakiAh wait where is the reset on the pcb? I flashed the wrong thing onto my bm43a and I have no idea how to reset it.
Taqa
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Sep 11, 2021
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pcb was broken
Kalbi
14
Aug 15, 2021
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I had to return them...
I wish I had the chance to build one but the board I got, one of the microchip fell off. Maybe I'll get another chance in the future.
alexku85
12
Jul 21, 2021
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Broken upon arrival
Two keys didn't work when i did test with tweezers. Upon further test, the diodes between these two keys had no continuity.
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Recommends this product? No
pjmarsh
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Feb 24, 2021
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Great for what it is
If you take this board at face value it's an excellent product. It seems that it is a small board meant for gaming, occasional typing, and tinkering with this. For that purpose this is an excellent product. I've hooked mine up with Tealios v2, got some keycaps, and I've been extremely happy with it. It's been one of the best experiences I've had gaming in a while, as the small size leaves so much room for mouse use and lets me play games in a very compact space. I get that some people might want numbers for their games, but honestly it's not that difficult to either use a layer or just change the command in game. It's also small enough to practically use with a laptop and not look like an idiot. This means that I have started carrying it around to on the go gaming sessions and placing it on top of the palm rest on my laptop.
Don't get me wrong, as soon as you try to use it for productivity, you'll get extremely frustrated. The lack of a question mark, parenthesis, quotation mark, and numbers make doing anything work related almost impossible without a second keyboard or a second layer, which I am far too lazy to set up. But for what the keyboard is intended for, this keyboard is excellent.
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