Keychron ra mắt dự án firmware mã nguồn mở cho bàn phím từ tính

Not long ago, Keychron announced Zephyr Gaming Mouse as an upcoming open-source firmware project for gaming mice. More recently, the peripheral maker announced MKF (Magnetic Keyboard Firmware), an open-source firmware project designed for TMR and Hall effect gaming keyboards. The project has yet to feature any public code contributions, but there is a landing page that outlines what Keychron aims to do with the project.

MKF is meant to serve as "an open firmware foundation for magnetic gaming keyboards, with room for the project and its community to grow," and its current feature outline includes support for the obvious, like 8 kHz polling, adjustable actuation, Rapid Trigger, and SOCD, but it will also apparently support custom response curves, PDO—sending more keypresses the deeper a key is held—and controller emulation. It currently seems as though only wired connectivity is planned for the initial release, but the project will be open to new features and use cases outside of competitive gaming.

Keychron has said in a response to a post on X that it plans to make MKF compatible with its older magnetic keyboards that had shipped with a forked version of QMK. It will also be open to community developers, although it remains to be seen how submissions and feature requests are handled.

Like ZGM, Magnetic Keyboard Firmware will be published under the GPL 3.0 license , which means it can be used fairly freely for both commercial and non-commercial purposes as long as the same license is maintained and the source code is provided.