The Protagonist by Wired In is a premium 60% mechanical keyboard that feels and sounds exceptional. It features a simple yet elegant design and places a strong emphasis on customization through our proprietary 'Keyframe' accent system. The 'Keyframe' system enables easy swapping of layouts and color schemes, offering incredible value, especially when combined with add-ons within our ecosystem. 

HUNDREDS OF POSSIBLE COLOR COMBOS

KEYFRAME

The Keyframe accent is our proprietary solution to not only quickly change the blockers for a WK, WKL, or HHKB layout, but it allows you to fully customize your keyboard's colors and/or materials, broadening the personalization potential. It mounts with only (4) screws that are easily accessed even with swithces installed, and only requires removing of 4 keycaps if done with a fully build keyboard. The two-tone look it creates, along with its beautifully protrunding trim make for increadily interesting combinations. 

MOUNTING

With three hardness options, you're able to dial in the perfect amount of bounce. The gaskets are complemented by the leafspring plate that marries comfort and top shelf acoustics without the need for foam. However, if you prefer foam, it is available for additional tweaking. 

PCB & DAUGHTERBOARD

The PCB, designed by Gondolindrim, is a beautiful white 1.6mm PCB made with black FR4, that reveals itself as a border. It has over 30 RGB LEDs (off by default) that creates a gorgeous underglow made to shine, diffused, through any polycarbonate components. Both hotswap and solder PCBs will be available during the group buy and are QMK and VIA compatible.

The daughterboard is also black using a traditional JST cable as we find EZ Mate to be frustrating without any upside to its implementation.   

PLATE

 
A single plate covers all available layouts with additional cutouts, especially around the spacebar, to accomplish the best possible acoustics. These decisions were the result of vigorous trial and error and what lead to excluding the option for a 6.25u spacebar. 
The grommet system that fits the gaskets with customizable hardnesses emulates a leaf spring (excluding FR4, Polycarbonate, and Polypropylene), joining the two mounting systems to create an extremely pleasurable typing experience with the perfect amount of flex.  

THANK YOU <3

The Protagonist is a love letter to the hobby and is the first of many. Thank you so much for checking out what we have to offer. Without a supporting community, this would not be possible. We look forward to hearing more from you so please feel free to join our community and provide feedback. Or, just come hangout and talk about, well, anything. - Wired.in

Feel free to check out our comprehensive internal roadmap that the team uses to update this project and everything else we have planned.