I acquired a Preonic keyboard from Drop.
I ordered it on 2020-04-23, it was delivered on 2020-09-18, due to some production delays.
| Article | Price |
|---|---|
| Drop + OLKB Preonic Keyboard MX Kit V3 | $183 |
| Halo Clear | |
| Carrying Case | |
| Shipping & Handling | $7.48 |
| (Conversion) | €181.43 |
| Tax & Handling | €33.89 |
| 2x ZKAPOR Magnetic USB C Kabel | €10.99 |
| TOTAL | €226.31 |
Assembly
Very straight forward, watch a quick YouTube video about it, and don’t forget to assemle the stabilisers first.
For later tweaking, I recommend getting a key cap puller.
Software
I prepared an initial layout using the QMK configurator and converted it into C later, see my GitHub.
Tricks
I mapped some keys to special chars in the us-intl layout, using
plain RALT() works fine; remember to (re)set the X11 keyboard layout
after plugging it in.
Layout
See the repo for details; I decided to use Colemak-DHm as a basis.
For learning I can recommend Colemak Academy, it’s less boring and has more real words than others.