A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
The Infinity keyboard aims to create a customizable 60% keyboard with high quality parts and no BS. The GON Skinny is more of a flashy keyboard that comes at a premium. The bent plate design on the Infinity helps cut cost while using the higher quality stainless steel over aluminum.
I've tried this keyboard twice and I really have respect for HaaTa, who designed it. It definitely wasn't his intention to create a clone of another keyboard. As much as I love the flashy goodness of GON keyboards, I think this keyboard fills its own niche in the market.
I really don't think someone like Haata would intentionally clone another keyboard though. Shrug, maybe GON helped design it?
IMO, the main selling point of this keyboard is the programmability. Even though other keyboards are programmable, I currently don't know of any keyboard firmware that supports this complex of macros without having to hand program in C each macro. KLL was designed to be portable between keyboards with completely different layouts.
References: GH75 (May 2013) http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=43450.0 (see plate-case picture page4) GON Skinny (June 2013) http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=44613.0 DOXKB (June 2011) http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=19227.0 (pictures were sadly lost in the rootworm incident, you can see all the text-references to the plate/case)