Aukey KM-G12, d00d wtf.

[tp4tissue]

Got dis' keeb for $38 on recent sale.

BLOWS MY MIND..  You guys remember when we payed 100s of $ for this shi7.

NKRO
7 color backlit,
7 color Curtain lighting, All the way around Lots of um.
7 color Settings Function, shortcut between different settings, programmable to a small extent.
All the RGB Favorites, breathing, rainbow wave, tap to light, type wave, unicorn barf, ETC
Extremely Smooth color animation,  This ain't that choppy Razer crap from years back.
Aluminum Top shell,
Key caps are OK
Outemu Blues (rebranded aukey), Very clicky, VERY smooth travel, as smooth as the God-Tier Cherry MX Blue.
Much louder than CherryBlue
Button shortcut to launch calculator
Good Rubber feet 
Programmable key assignment.

Cons:

Keycap is painted and lasered, Claw-Hand users will scrape this coating off in time.

Choice of Font is very legible, but somewhat unrefined, looks a bit daft. Typeface enthusiasts may find the choice in sizes appalling.

The Aluminum chamfer on the top plate is hastily done, feed speed extremely high, and on a slightly worn blade. <expected @ this price> they're trying to stretch how many they can cut, and as fast as possible. Looks OK, non machinists wouldn't notice.

The Logo is just a polished metal sticker, but they put it on slightly ajar.

Plastic base, cheap and thinly molded.

The opaque light curtain insert along with the top and bottom shell are not fitted. You can feel the physical edges.

Overall very light board. Some peeps might not like this. Tp4 thinks keebs have become unnecessarily heavy over the years. This is just fine 4 TP.

Cable is the flimsy. The internal conductors must be very thin. Also a very short cable.

The G-Aim application prolly sends your user data, secsual habits, and passwurds to the People's Liberation Army, but for $38, tough call.

Finally, other reviewers are stupid, the curtain lights can clearly be disabled Fn+Insert. Why would that not be a function. Tp4's got chu' covered dawgs.

2 b clear, Tp4 is not recommending anyone actually buy a keyboard that isn't split and tentable to 55 Degrees. But this makes for a decent beater for a computer cart, kitchen, dining room.

Update con, this might not be a true RGB board,  it seems to be locked to 7 colors

[tp4tissue]

Update con, this might not be a true RGB board,  it seems lock to 7 colors

[suicidal_orange]

Update con, this might not be a true RGB board,  it seems to use a 7 color LED

RGB with only on/off for each colour is 7 colours - maybe they cheaped out on the controller/firmware?

[tp4tissue]

Update con, this might not be a true RGB board,  it seems to use a 7 color LED

RGB with only on/off for each colour is 7 colours - maybe they cheaped out on the controller/firmware?

dis's also my suspicion.  This might not even be 7 colors, it's rgb cct perhaps. soooo 5 color pack?

[nmur]

strange lookin ergodox ya got there

[tp4tissue]

strange lookin ergodox ya got there

Dis' the beater board used to email the side-gurls,  Tp4 still mains only ERGODOX,  ERGODOX #1



Good clean soldering, 50 curtain LEDs ontop of individual key leds.

Looks like a Holtek HT66FB576,  which SHOULD have RGB programmability. Not sure why their app doesn't allow it.

[tp4tissue]

Took out the camera zoomed in, It SHOULD be RGB led,  cuz I thought it may have been rgbw or rgbcct because there was a small break at the bottom,  However,  still no go on the software addressing.