hi officially licensed character are you ready to build a keyboard why yes I am
officially licensed character I would love to build a keyboard we're going to
build a keyboard with the Mel geek pixel world's first brick compatible keyboard
it's a keyboard that you can then attach bricks to you might be familiar with a
few Brands I can't say those Brands but we're gonna use them and have some fun
canvas dots small big Minds B mechanical
keyboard pixel Fun World mail geek wow
so there's a product manual uh welcome to the pixel world I'm actually pretty
excited about this thing it's pretty neat on their website you can make your
own designs and stuff and then share that with the community or grab someone
else's and then make it look however you want otherwise though I haven't built this thing yet but I'm pretty stoked
what else we got on the back oh cool there's a bunch of different shortcuts
and stuff this is a wireless keyboard which is pretty cool it's got like a
3100 milliamp hour battery not only are there shortcuts and layers that you can
do uh right out of the box but they have their own software that you can then
customize as much as you want as well you make your own design and then you
print it out and then you cut it and then you put it under the keycaps
because the keycaps aren't the same like
what you do is you put a switch in and then you put bricks
over top of the switch in between the switch and the keycap we've got the van
Gogh stuff so that's cool I don't know how that's going to go you get it
because it's Van Gogh oh these are cool I like how they're bricks oh my God
that's clever okay you see how these are like little bricks I don't even know
what the point is of these but that's neat I love the boxes already uh sure
there's going to be a lot of unusual things in this because of the way
they've built it and Incorporated the brick compatibility so even the USB
dongle it's got these little bricks on here so you can stick stuff onto this oh
my God look at that that's my USB dongle already this is amazing I already love
this thing can I just buy this after oh here's the cable also brick themed it is
killing me having to say brick themed on the USB a side of the cable you've got
like a six piece brick that you could put up here and then on the USB b side
you've got four piece brick on either side which is great so you can do tons
of customization past what you normally code with a regular keyboard they've
gone with this like rubberized Style as well I've seen this in other cables
specifically like flat SATA cables but I've never seen this on a keyboard cable
so that's pretty neat oh cool they've got their own bricks you can get these
kits in three different color ways I think and what that will do is gives you
extra like brick color add-ons so that you can change the basically the color
palette of it I don't know why they went with Christian though is it like it's
got got wearing God's brick house now black red purple lavender rather yeah so
it looks like these are definitely just aesthetic I normally don't really like
extra little plastic bits here but I'll be honest this is really cute and it's
really on theme so I'm gonna give them a pass here orange or like a tangerine uh
Yelp green I almost said yellow I don't know why and blue and then we got the
keyboard so I guess what the real question is is like is this keyboard
going to actually be any good we'll talk about the price later but it's
definitely not cheap what the hell is this it says open me and it says next
page but like there's nothing else there
oh you guys see this what
that's odd awesome Okay so the minor thing but it's actually
thing already looks super cool it's obviously pretty big like it's it looks
like it's about a tkl there's a lot of extra space on all the sides but what
you're meant to do is take your bricks are you sure we can't say what about
what about Mega Blocks uh the bottom as well can be bricked out
in whatever kind of design you want yeah I don't know it's just super customizable one of the nice things as
well is the angle so right now it's it's like flat like this is super flat but
what you can do is they should have feet in here I'm not sure if that's these
guys or not but you get feet and then you put bricks down and then you put the
feet over the bricks so you've got this perfectly customizable typing angle
which is actually really cool a big complaint for me a lot of the time is
the inability to adjust feet I love keyboard feet I love the adjustability
but with this you're gonna get basically whatever you want you want to do
something stupid you want to do like like this tall I don't even know what
angle that is anymore but you can do that I don't know why you would but you
could on top of that you got brick excess three options on the sides as
well this is like a on and Powerless and wireless switch because it does do
wireless it's got a battery in here and Bluetooth and 2.4 G if you want to use
Wi-Fi this whole thing is plastic and it feels pretty similar to The Brick
plastic used but you obviously see all these gaps and stuff especially the type
C part right here you just end up with all these gaps and it's really a minor
issue but after dealing with a lot of more expensive keyboards that are CNC
aluminum and like meant to fit perfectly and seamlessly together it's something
that you notice and it has sort of a cheaper feeling which I guess is a
little unfair because the way this thing is constructed that's just bound to
happen I would love to take this apart unfortunately we don't really have time
otherwise some cool features are the dongle is supposed to fit under here
check this out oh my God my only complaint right here is I wish that they
had an insert or something so that you could like actually physically Stick it
to the inside of the board now I've got it in there and that's
great I love the little compartment but I mean you move this thing at all and
it's going to Rattle around which is just kind of annoying not only are the switches custom they're custom t or L
switches from kale they've got their own custom profile called MLG and then what
they're doing with the keycaps is Nifty between the switch and the keycap
there's actually a brick let me get this open there we go I can now take all of
these guys these printed out things and then I just take this I put it in there
and then look it's not the best example because it's
scroll lock and you can hardly see but now my little bit of artwork is inside
that and what you can do is you can take these and like put them over the entire
keyboard so that now you've got this like cool whatever style you want to put
on here you can get blank completely
clear keycaps but the numbered and lettered and characterized ones come
standard with the kit but that'd be super cool to get a fully blank set and
then you just print off like whatever imagining you want to do and throw it in
there super customizable super fun these have got to be the feet because there's
four of them and yeah they feel a little rubbery cool to install the little
rubber feet that you get with it it's pretty easy you just make like a four
pattern and then you pop them right in the middle here
and I'll just kind of slot in just like that
um yeah I actually really want to get a cool typing angle on this so let's do
that their bricks are not that that great um I think that if you can find your own
brand bricks that you like personally you should just stick with those okay
the ultimate feat for the ultimate typing angle and you can go more extreme
than this this is just about as big as I think it would be comfortable
I know I love this actually this is actually a much more comfortable
experience for me personally typing at this angle on such a flat device my
wrist might hate me after like an hour of typing like this I don't know but
right now it feels comfortable at the very least all right let's take the switch out uh we've got the tactile ones
this little green and white housings I actually really like these a lot I don't
know if they come pre-lubed it doesn't really sound or feel like it or if it is
it's pretty light but you know they're not bad I would be perfectly okay with
using this and they're five pin so we're gonna plug it in type on it a bit more
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devices on this thing wirelessly and then swap it with the hotkeys so we're
actually going to try to use the dongle today and see how good the dongle is cool oh oh that's my problem with defeat
and these bricks that they come with I tried to slide the keyboard forward and
it instantly broke one of the feet so we're just we're gonna keep this here
and it's not gonna move really cool idea get your own bricks here we go
okay 94 words for a minute 96 accuracy
it's not my best and absolutely part of it is because of the weird way that
these cups work once you push down if you go to type somewhere else because
it's all super flat if you're really quick and you don't move your fingers up
enough you're gonna get caught in between some of the keys I'm not crazy about the profile I've never been super
big on a lot of flat profiles but I think that when it's like a chiclet
style and there's basically no cups involved it's a lot easier to type maybe
that's just me I think that the angle kind of helps like if I were to do that
again with it completely flat um maybe it would be better I'm not sure at least
we can adjust it basically as much as we want as for the keyboard itself though
and how it feels and sounds it's pretty decent it honestly yeah like the it's
definitely a more premium keyboard it costs a fair bit of money but you're
definitely getting something for all of that money spent one thing I'm not crazy
about is the sort of clear look so I think that me personally I would
actually tear off all of these little clear guys and I would build on top of
this this just goes to show how much you can actually customize this thing on top
of that their app will let you change function layers and macro keys and
whatever you want it'll hook up to up to eight devices which is great you can go
to their website and then kind of like paint your own thing per pixel it's not
pixel art but like when you're talking about blocks like this it kind of it's
basically the same thing we can take Linus's face if we wanted and just like
put it on the keyboard let's get some stuff on here Gamers we're gonna you
know just throw a bunch of people on here but like imagine if you had the
time to sit down and actually build something incredibly cool like a whole
scene over here and like around your keyboard and stuff got a sign here
what's the sign say only the best of course that's going on the front and it
fits our white aesthetic you can like put a wheel down here somehow I mean
this would fit actually boom fits right here sick amazing who needs a knob when
you've got a spin wheel that does absolutely nothing except for looks
super cool is this a bit of an Unholy creation yes but you know what I think
it's pretty sick inside the keyboard as well while I haven't opened it their
website does show off a bunch of layers of both pour on foam and uh silicone so
you're getting the sound dampening and honestly I believe it uh it feels and
sounds pretty decent here and you get some of this
I have no idea if they've lubed the stabilizers or what they're using maybe
they're clipping maybe they're screwing I'm not sure but either way they're
actually pretty decent there's like zero rattle in that
I guess the only really limiting factor is you're kind of stuck to this single
layout so if you're not a big fan of tkl this might not be the keyboard for you
and the funny thing is most people get tkl because it's a you know shaving off
like this much of the keyboard so you can fit more stuff on your desk uh
you're not really doing that with this this is about the size of a full-size
keyboard we're pretty damn close they're using regular switches as well so if you
don't like this kind of see-through keycap look what you can do is you can
put whatever you want on here get your own custom keycaps maybe get some really
fancy ones slap them on and type away
the problem that some people are gonna have uh this
entire base kit that we got today 280 and that's for the pre-order it's
actually I think regularly 300 bucks now
you get everything you're not just buying a base kit you've got switches
you've got keycaps you've got the board itself and it is Wireless which is
always going to cost a bit more money so what it comes down to is whether you
think something this Niche and this cool is the keyboard for you honestly I think
for a lot of people they're totally willing to pay the uh brick tax and so
they're perfectly fine with spending a bit of money on something like this I'll
tell you right now that I don't think you're going to be that disappointed
especially because it's hot swap even if you buy it and you don't like the kales
whether you get the linears or the tactiles you just switch them out with
something else and off you go not only is this super customizable but it's just
very versatile because you're getting both Wireless and wired options so it's
kind of hard to go wrong I mean it it's expensive but it's not not crazy
expensive in the world of custom keyboards if you want to take a look at
another kind of interesting keyboard check out the am Alpha by Angry meow
it's an ALICE layout with a bit of a Twist it's pretty cool