I'm an unabashed fan of RGB, and this macropad delivers RGB in droves. Huge, bright, colorful lights pour from this thing like a hallucinating unicorn, and I love it.
What of it as a Macropad? The buttons work well, they're easy to program, and I love that I can change out the switches and caps. I use transparent caps, of course, for maximum glow.
If you can get past the two functions above then I'll gladly recommend this product cause it's pretty fun pressing the giant switches.
The Outemu big switches has some rattling when you press it down and you not only can hear it but also feel it in your finger tips. Feels and sounds like having loose change in your pockets. The bad thing is that it's hard to find Outemu switches because I would love to try tactile and linear ones on this board. Furthermore, the Outemu switches are soldered on so no luck taking it apart to lube or modify the switch and I don't really want to scratch the case trying to take the whole thing apart.
This macropad being not QMK supported is pretty disappointing as I would love to program it with more layers and have different colors on each layer but sadly I can't.
But all in all, I think it's a novel product for people who are looking for novelty over functionality (Not that it's not functional but there's only 5 switches on this thing. Functionality isn't it's selling point).
The big Switches feel nice and have a great tactile click to them. The machining on the case and the two keycaps are great and feel really high quality. Only downside to me is that it isn't QMK compatible, but I knew that going in so it's no big deal. All in all, would definitely recommend if you want a nice, sturdy macro pad.
Sidenote: this thing has made me want some more of these Outemu big Switches to experiment with, but they're really hard to find.
Works instantly out of the box. Took a bit to locate the json configuration file to load in for VIA, but once that loaded in customization was super easy. The RGB lighting is bright and beautiful. Customizing the lights provided plenty of fun presets and you can achieve some very nice looks. The underglow looks great with the frosty transparent bottom, you get an impressive amount of color.
I just love the giant switches. Currently using the big buttons to switch between desktop workspaces, a lot more fun than the normal key combos.
(Please note that I’m a casual user of keyboards and am fairly inexperienced with keyboard customization.) It’s a well-built little device and the big keys are quite satisfying to press. For the three regular keys, I used Outemu Blue clicky switches and they fit and work fine. One thing I haven’t been able to figure out yet (assuming it’s possible) is how to make the key backlighting a different color than that of the undercarriage lighting. As a novice, I was confused at first during the configuration process but I was able to figure out some basics to make the macropad functional enough. Overall I found the macropad to be a fun gadget and decoration, with the potential to be a more useful tool for me in the future.
VERY well made product. Nice chassis. Good RGB lighting to fool around with. Setup is a little bit of a pain in the butt. Having used Monogram and Tourbox interfaces... needing to download some generic controller software to get this working... took longer then I desired. ALSO not really knowing a way to "switch layers" so I could change my hotkeys PER app would be really beneficial, but I don't have a clue how to do it. So, it's really just on my desk for the novelty of it all.