BakenekoGO

It's surprisingly good for the price. I just lubed the included stabilizers, put Baby Racoon switches, and topped it off with Osume Keycaps. My only gripe would be that the RGB lighting should stay on when wired mode instead of turning off every time you stop using the board.

I mainly purchased this kit to use the case as a home for another 60% o-ring mount PCB, but ended up building it as intended as I was still waiting for some parts to finish the PCB that was supposed to go in here. Even without any modifications outside of clipping and lubing the included stabs, the board sounds fantastic. With a makeshift silicone weight at the bottom of the case and some switch pads - this $80 kit sounds just as nice as some of the much more expensive PC builds in my collection. I can't see any manufacturing imperfections in the frosted PC, and with the RGB off it looks great with a light blue keycap set. I prefer a wired keyboard but did bring this along to work for a few days and tried it out over bluetooth. I haven't had any connection issues and haven't had to charge it in the two weeks I have had it.

I think that ZMK might be a turn off to some but I would say that the current solution for editing your keymap doesn't require a deep knowledge of how the firmware functions, and I am excited to see what ZMK Studio can do for people in the future.

This kit, especially with the bundle discount that is currently available, represents a fantastic value for money, and I would heartily recommend it as a purchase to anyone as either their first keyboard or their 50th.

A bunch of people asked in the CannonKeys' discord whether the case itself would be too light, or if the walls of the case would be too thin, and safe to say, I don't think either of those are an issue with the BakenekoGO.

At 645 grams fully built, it may not seem hefty, but when taking the case itself out of the box for the first time, I was surprised at how "thicc" the case was in general. Of course, it doesn't weigh as much as an alu Bakeneko60, but it's designed to be used wireless and as a portable option for when you don't want to take your Bakeneko60 or similar board with you.

As of writing this review, the ZMK studio project isn't fully released, so you'll have to follow CannonKeys' guide (written and/or video format) to remap using ZMK, but even for someone like me (who only uses VIA and VIAL and only dabbled with QMK a few times in the past), the steps and guides were super easy to follow.

And, just like the guides state, once you link your GitHub account and do a lot of things to set yourself up to be able to remap and flash the board, future remapping takes much less time and effort.

While I would've liked a 7u spacebar option with the stock wireless PCB at launch, it 100% was not a deal-breaker, and I'm sure if there's enough interest, a future wireless 7u PCB may be an option. Of course, you can use any other PCB and/or plate that fits a Bakeneko60 and use the board wired as well!

Since it ended up being my friend who received the BakenekoGO, we didn't necessarily play with a bunch of different switch, keycap, and plate configs, but she was happy with the end result, and that's all that matters. Can this board sound better than the DCX Garnet, KTT Roses, and POM full plate that we recorded the sound test with? Absolutely. But I definitely can't complain regarding the sound of that config! We kept the 50A durometer stock O-Ring that came with the board as well.

Overall, a great lil Bakeneko to use on the GO!

Would like to see an physical on/off switch that doesn’t need me to take off a key to reach, and the oring mount making the board being easy to fall out of its case could damage cables, since its supposedly a portable board, maybe the case fit should be tighter (pressure outwards from the R1 keys will very effortlessly take the board out of the case, so are flipping the board upside down and shaking slightly)

Main and most controversive part is RGB and shinethrough aestetics. Cable management on PCB done bad. Direction and placement of connectors can be adjusted to better deal with wires. One of RGB leds has direct contact with battery which is not just bad, but can result in fire accidents. Diffferent persons who are working on case/pcb design must collaborate with each other to avoid such situations.
Second part is ZMK. It's good for battery lifetime, but keyboard release should be after UI release. I'm skilled enough to deal with ZMK and even write a custom firmware based on qmk/zmk, but I'm just lazy to build it for a brand new keyboard. So... it will wait it's time on a shelf till UI.
Third part is lack of tsangan support on default pcb. Yes, I can get a spare one with required layout, but then $80 board will become a $120 board which is not that nice.

Overall I'm satiafied with this board. It's a cheap way to get lightweight o-ring board.