Nyquist/Levinson Rev. 5 PCB Kit - 60%/40% Split Ortholinear Keyboard

Good board, but pretty bad product experience given the price. Cosmetic defects in the print, and no quickstart guide to be found in the package whatsoever. The board itself seems good, just for this price point I would appreciate sloghtly more attention to detail.

Updated Review - Amazing Keyboard

Just built a full nyquist because they un-discontinued this board and released a rev5! Holy heck! It's got per key rgb now and kailh hotswap sockets? Amazing. Coming from my levinson (this board with the bottom row snapped off and a layout thats the same but without numkey row), which was a rev2 board from like 5 years ago, wow! What an upgrade. There have been so many improvements since I last built this. The aluminum plates are much nicer than the clear acrylic which, while I'll admit has a transparent glassy look that I'm in love with, also has the unfortunate tendency of being scratched by gusts of wind and showing every bit of dirt you can imagine. Also the standoff bumpers make it way more stable which is nice. And since the switches are clipped into the plate and not soldered into the pcb, they're all perfectly lined up which, due to my bad soldering, is much harder to achieve when assembling the old version. Also it was easy to put together. Overall hardware is wayyyy better and more feature complete with this edition and it's my grail for that reason. Getting this set up with a custom QMK build is basically the same. my old layout needed very minor changes to be adapted to the newest board. QMK is still basically what it is, but due to the newest microcontrollers in use, there's no need to solder in a microcontroller and flashing doesn't require ten different kinds of software. It's as simple as setting up QMK MSYS, compiling a keymap, customizing it, recompiling it, then clicking the reset button twice and literally dragging a single file onto the board like it's a flashdrive. Boom! Need to change something? Edit, recompile, flash both sides, I can do it less than a minute. I won't go on about the merits of on-board firmware vs pc software for customizing keybinds, I'll just say this, if you're considering this board and know about that stuff, this is by far the best implementation of I've seen so far. Grail board; I will never get rid of it or use another board unless a lightning strike burns down my house.