What is SpaceFN and why you should give it a try
The SpaceFN concept - setting up your space key as a layer switch when held - is probably one of the most useful tweaks in the keyboard hobby. Let me explain how it works. My SpaceFN article on kbd.news made some rounds recently - quite surprisingly given the age of this concept. This piece you're reading is a condensed version of the full post. If you're left with unanswered questions, you'll most likely find the info you're looking for in the original write-up. On my imaginary top list of the most useful keyboard features, tweaks and hacks, SpaceFN would deserve a podium finish for sure. But what makes it so special? In short: SpaceFN is easy to implement, easy to learn, costs nothing, can be used with any keyboard, and can improve your productivity instantly. I will list its benefits below, but can state right at this point that the SpaceFN concept, setting up your space key as a layer switch when held, is clearly one of the most useful tweaks in the keyboard hobby....
Apr 30, 2024
Also KaminKev wasn't saying they offer custom LEDs. He was saying you could buy a POK3R and put in your own LEDs by yourself.
That people who wish to wait until late October may preorder Pok3rs with factory-installed LEDs that don't require customization or void warranties, but do include LED-related enhancements by Vortex, etc.
Also, KK's original post was phrased in such an open-ended way that it easily could be construed by readers as recommending Mechanical Keyboards as a customizing LED service. I didn't believe that that unintended inference was correct. I merely asked a question that (tactfully, I'd hoped) pointed out the fallacy of a harmless straw man.
If people want to add their own LEDs, that's their business. But to pose the option as a seeming rebuttal to useful information about forthcoming Pok3r options is unnecessarily confusing. Here's how I would have put it: "One alternative to buying a Pok3r with preinstalled LEDs is to install them yourself. You can buy the LEDs here [insert link to specific page]."
You could also easily go to Mechanical Keyboards and look it up yourself and see that it does, indeed, exist. I don't really understand why you're making such a thing out of this...
https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1419
EDIT: Looks like the link won't go through (Massdrop's comment box automatically truncates the actual part of the items ID.).
Did you wonder (as I did) whether the low price might have been a mistake?
If you go on Mech. Keyboards site, you will see the white backlit ones on their Vortex Keyboards product page.