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Melgeek Pixel and Keysme Lunar 01 keyboards review

  • Melgeek Pixel
  • Lunar Keysme 01

Summary

With its pixelated print on the clear keycaps and the Lego-compatible finish on the housing, USB cable and wireless dongle, Melgeek Pixel is a unique keyboard. You can even make it even more unique without limits, because with the supplied Lego blocks or your own Lego blocks you can customize the keyboard to your liking. If that’s not enough, you can also place photos under the transparent keycaps. Under the skin, the Pixel is an excellent keyboard with various wired and wireless connection options, gasket-mounted PCB and excellent switches. For a serious touch, we recommend other keycaps.

Summary

Keysme went to great lengths to produce a luxurious and quiet keyboard. With its dual seal mounting, silicone damping at the bottom of the housing and under the “plate”, and with lubricated switches and stabilizers, the keyboard is quiet and solid. You just have to like the design. We liked the clear housing, but we don’t recommend the polycarbonate keycaps. Fortunately, versions with various types and colors of pbt keycaps are also available.

We don’t often review kickstarter products or other rather obscure hardware. However, for the two keyboards we look at in this review, we like to make an exception. One is a keyboard suitable for the famous Lego bricks and appears to be partly made of them, and the other is secretly a high-end keyboard that is dressed up as a NASA board.

With that second keyboard, we must immediately say something; it’s not the keyboard we wanted and it’s not the keyboard you could get. Firstly, this is a pre-production model, and secondly, the color and material are not as agreed with the manufacturer. But … with your eyes closed you have a keyboard that at least amply compensates for the second aspect.

We were eager to take a closer look at the “lego keyboard” because, well, because it’s lego. It is actually pure Announcements, but covertly, somewhere between the pins and the recesses, there is also a real and serious keyboard. Obviously the Lego keyboard cannot be called that, therefore manufacturer Melgeek calls it Pixel. You can already use that keyboard book for $ 199but the final retail price would be $ 250. The “NASA keyboard,” the Lunar 01costs during the kickstarter around 160 euros, but it would cost around 280 euros in regular sales.

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