KBD8X Mk III done! No photos yet (still waiting on new caps) but this was my first full build and I gotta say it made me appreciate how easy the Keychron V3's been to work with. Everything inside the V3 is so well signposted and fits together so easily. The KBD8X is nice to use but more fiddly to put together, and the steps weren't always obvious. I don't mean this as a knock on kbdfans – I'm sure it's mostly lack of experience on my part – but kudos to Keychron for making such beginner-friendly boards.
The PCB caters for multiple layouts, so some of its stabilizer holes run together. That causes clip-in stabs to be a bit loose. I made mine work with stab-stoppers, but I would've bought screw-ins had I known.
For the same reason, there are two sets of holes for some switches. The pad covers up the contact holes so you can't easily see that switches using the set of holes on the right should go in upside-down.
VIA support is OK, but some features (in my case, delays for macros) are Vial-only.
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