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