AV-RK MK I

The AVlabs AV-RK MK I, the Redox Styled Split Mechanical Keyboard

Another keyboard build? whyYyyYYyYYYYy????

Because I love keyboards god dang it! Also, I built a while ago a REAL redox, by MattDB, with gateron blues. After quite a bit of use, it starts showing its age, and its shortcomings. I wanted to design my own version, and add my own shitty ideas in the mix!

okay sure, but what's different??

To be completely honest, the way the switch grid is layout is almost identical to the redox, as I took measurements from my current redox, which I find pretty comfy. BUT LOOK IT HAS TINY WINDOWS TO SEE THE TINY ELECTRONICS!!!!!!!! Also, It uses the more modern low profile Kailh Choc Robins (yeah I'm a clicky guy) switches. Something that blows my mind is that the Cherry MX switch standard dates back from 1983, it's almost 40 years old.... Cherry switches are great, but here is the deal: Here, a Gateron blue switch with a pretty typical keycap measures around 25mm. Twenty five god damn millimiters, and this is not even with a chassis! If you add in the chassis of, for instance, the AV-KO 1 MK I keyboard, you have between 30 to 40mm of thiccness: You might say to yourself that "okay sure, who cares if the keyboard is yay high or whatever? YOU CARE! having such high switches means you have to put your wrists at like a 30° angle, which puts lots of strain on them. This is where the low profile Kailh Choc come into play: the whole keyboard build is 20mm high, which is 5mm less than just a cherry keycap+switch:

another shitty bom in markdown

heeeeell yeah, shopping done on splitkb.com for the keycaps/switches and amazon for the rest!

the good shit	amount needed	price
Kaihl Choc Robins	110 (yeah i'm a baller, extras are gud)	74,67€
Transparent Keycaps	100	41.96€
White 1u keycaps, for modifiers/symbols/numpad	70	34.64€
White 2u keycaps for numpad	4	3.58€
Arduino pro micro (yeah, it's a triple 32u4 board)	3	38.97€
Smol 20cm USB micro b cable	3	3.60€
that cool aluminium usb c converter	3	28.2€
And add a 20 for a spool of filament, whatever material you want, I prefer ABS as a superior Voron owner (/s)
and yeah, thats probably 230€ worth of parts but fuck, you only live once.

//TODO: add build guide/stuff