The Omnikeys Bauer Lite, 1 of my favourite keyboards of the year, is down to conscionable $95 ($25 off) this week arsenic portion of Omnitype’s ongoing Black Friday sale. I paid afloat value for excavation earlier this year, and it was a steal. It feels awesome to type on, it has a awesome layout, it’s customizable and nosy to build, and it’s colorful. What’s not to love?
The Bauer Lite is simply a 65 percent, gasket-mounted wired mechanical keyboard kit that comes successful 9 translucent variants (plus opaque off-white). You’ll request to proviso switches, stabilizers, and keycaps, and it has neither wireless support nor backlighting, but it’s a awesome woody for the customizability, type feel, and looks.
The Bauer Lite has a integrative lawsuit that comes successful a bunch of awesome translucent colors, from clear to atomic purple to agleam blue, seafoam, coral, acheronian red, and my individual favorite: neon orange. This is awesome news if your brain, for illustration mine, tin sometimes beryllium tricked into emotion a small happier by a jolt of fluorescent color.
It comes arsenic a barebones kit, which intends you request to proviso your ain keycaps, switches, and stabilizers, truthful your existent build will costs much than $95. You besides person to put it together yourself, but that’s easy enough, and the kit comes pinch a broad instruction manual. I utilized Durock stabilizers and Kailh Deep Sea Silent Islet linear switches connected my build, some of which I recommend.
The Bauer Lite does not person lighting (RGB aliases otherwise) aliases wireless connectivity. It besides only comes successful a 65 percent layout, pinch aliases without divided backspace, and pinch 1.5u bottom-row modifiers and a 7u spacebar, truthful make judge your keycaps see those keys.
Omnitype besides has a bunch of keycap sets connected waste this week, arsenic good arsenic deskmats and a supplies bundle that’s useful (but not essential) for building the Bauer and different boards.