I&#x27;ve actually had the pleasure of using one of the Model 01s. (a version that is, from what I understand, slightly different from what is going to be shipping) During their Kickstarter they actually went on a huge tour to visit something like 30 different hacker spaces in the 30 days of their Kickstarter to meet the people who did, or might want to, back their project. I think the best endorsement of it I can give is this: I was actually sad when I went home and couldn&#x27;t take it with me. I backed their Kickstarter, and had been paying attention to their blog for a while, so I&#x27;m quite looking forward to when mine finally arrives.<p>What&#x27;s very surprising to me is that I don&#x27;t feel like I&#x27;ve seen much of this keyboard mentioned on HN, considering it really is the ultimate hacker&#x27;s keyboard. (the most discussion I saw was 14 posts on their Kickstarter announcement from a quick search) Everything about it is going to be open source: from the actual specs of the hardware inside (so you could manufacture your own!) to all the code being used to run the keyboard. It&#x27;s completely modifiable from the top to bottom. I don&#x27;t know if it will have the capability when it finally ships, as Jesse mentioned it wasn&#x27;t in their firmware to be able to do so at the meetup, but one of the ideas that excites me is the ability to change the state of the colored keys. Someone at the meetup I went to brought up the idea of changing the color of all the keys to a bright red when plugged into a production computer and were using a root terminal. It was mentioned that they were interested in adding that capability, but who knows, if they don&#x27;t, someone else might put in a pull request for it.