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  1. # 68keys
  3. A 68-key keyboard with per-key RGB, Kailh hotswap sockets, and USB-C. Uses Blue Pill.
  5. ## History
  7. This keyboard was inspired by the [68keys.io](https://68keys.io/) keyboard. The
  8. 68keys keyboard has a similar layout to the
  9. [MagicForce 68](https://www.amazon.com/Qisan-Mechanical-Keyboard-68-Keys-Magicforce/dp/B01E8KO2B0).
  10. [di0ib](https://github.com/di0ib) did a
  11. [replacement PCB](https://github.com/di0ib/tmk_keyboard/tree/master/keyboard/mf68)
  12. for the Magicforce 68.
  14. I love the Magicforce 68, but wanted a few changes. As a colossally
  15. disproportionate response to this challenge, I created
  16. [a utility](https://github.com/sowbug/keycad/) that generates PCBs from
  17. arbitrary KLE JSON files, and used it to create this keyboard.
  19. ## A note about backlighting
  21. I wanted my per-key RGB keyboard to have a dim backlight on all keys, but didn't
  22. want to sacrifice cool RGB matrix effects to have it. So I wrote up
  23. [a QMK patch](https://github.com/sowbug/qmk_firmware/commit/f7f859ceeefde40e639cfc75044af477504d30f8)
  24. that treats RGB(0, 0, 0) as eligible for backlighting. Unfortunately the QMK
  25. maintainers weren't interested (actually, now that I look back, I didn't submit
  26. a pull request, but rather discussed it in a chat room), so it's not upstreamed.
  27. Thus you'll have to add that patch (and
  28. [this](https://github.com/sowbug/qmk_firmware/commit/ff17800ef4a9cba59d754c72720d6877edb8fbb9))
  29. to your copy of QMK and then enable it in config.h and rules.mk.
  31. ## Building and flashing
  33. `qmk flash -kb sowbug/68keys -km default`