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Add-ons: Wired Solder PCB
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Keyboy Advance - Childhood Has Returned

There are keyboards, and there are keyboards that tell a story. The KeyBoy Advance belongs to the latter category. Designed by PromoType (Galo), it's the first project of a new designer — and at the same time a love letter to one of history's most iconic handhelds: the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. Anyone who grew up with the GBA in the early 2000s will feel something at first sight of the KeyBoy Advance — and the project's tagline says it directly: "Childhood Has Returned."

Inspiration:

The Game Boy Advance was one of Nintendo's best-selling handhelds — and its wide, landscape-format silhouette with number row made it the very essence of mobile gaming. Exactly this compact, portable spirit is the starting point for the KeyBoy Advance: 50% layout, compact, landscape-format, with a built-in number row that makes small keyboards much more approachable for enthusiasts. The result is a 50% build that feels familiar

Design Concept:

The GBA's bold, irregular design means direct copying onto a keyboard wouldn't be good design.  So the focus is on capturing its spirit, not its shape, while keeping a keyboard's basic form.

Top View

The front uses deconstructed design elements to evoke a handheld console, with an incised line extending to the back to mimic a battery cover.The upper right retains the iconic power indicator LED.The upper left features an asymmetric light strip to balance the visual composition.The lower right preserves the basic shape of the speaker module, with a recessed split design to create colour separation and layered texture.

Back and Side View

The bottom deconstructs and reshapes the GBA's complex form, creating distinctive upward-curving sides, which together with the upward micro-curve of the front bottom edge create a floating feel for the case.

Structure

The KeyBoy Advance uses a Top mounting system with small Oring and a pillar with Poron raised from the bottom case to eliminate resonance of the stepped spacebar.For the shoulder buttons, micro switches are used to replicate the feel and function, with full customization via Vial.

Layout

The KeyBoy Advance comes with a 1.6 mm black-core PCB supporting up to tri-mode connectivity and is available in four PCB varients

  • MX Wired Solder
  • MX Wired Hotswap
  • MX Dual-Mode Hot-Swap
  • MX Tri-Mode Hot-Swap