Dutch hardware startup Naya Create has launched the Naya Connect, a modular mechanical keyboard featuring magnetic connectors for additional keypads, and a dock to add a trackball, a multitouch touchpad, a rotary encoder, or a spatial controller. It is designed for 3D artists, video editors, audio professionals, and CAD engineers, as well as finance and business users.
The core system, or the brain of the product, is the Naya Type, an 85-key mechanical keyboard in a 75% form factor with a 14.9 mm CNC aluminum unibody. It uses Kailh Choc V2 low-profile mechanical switches mounted on hot-swappable sockets and paired with dished polycarbonate shine-through keycaps with full RGB support. The keyboard supports QWERTY, QWERTZ, Colemak, Dvorak, and fully custom layouts via software remapping, while offering a 1,000 Hz polling rate in wired mode. A configurable spacebar allows users to switch between a standard single bar or a three-key split layout for advanced layer control and workflow customization.
The Naya Type keyboard has magnetic pogo-pin connectors on both sides that let users “snap on” additional hardware, including:
- Naya Multipad – A 24-key numpad/macropad with addressable RGB and “Visual Tiles” icon keycaps.
- Naya 6-Key – A small strip of programmable keys for quick-access macros or media controls.
- Naya Dock (wireless hub)
- Naya Touch – A multi-finger gesture touchpad with programmable zones as found in high-end laptops
- Naya Float – 6-DoF spatial controller for 3D modeling and CAD
- Naya Tune – Haptic rotary encoder combined with a gesture pad
- Naya Track – Programmable 40mm trackball with four integrated buttons, axis locking, and dedicated scrolling
The keyboard supports both wired and wireless modes, but with a catch. The Naya Type keyboard connects via USB-C and includes a supercapacitor that allows it to stay powered for about 30 seconds during a module swap, but the outer modules, including the Multipad, the 6-Key, and the Dock, do not have internal batteries or wireless radios.
Wireless functionality is only enabled when one of the four primary modules (Touch, Track, Tune, or Float) is attached. These modules include both the battery (ranging from 800mAh to 1,500mAh) with USB-C charging, Qi Wireless charging, and the antenna. Once a module is snapped into a Naya Dock and then connected to the main keyboard, the module shares its power and data connection with the rest of the ecosystem via magnetic pogo-pins.
The keyboard is configured using the Naya Flow software, which comes with a single interface to manage the keyboard, dock, and all attached modules. The software supports key remapping, multi-layer layouts, per-application profiles with automatic switching, per-key RGB control, and detailed module configuration, including touchpad zones, trackball sensitivity, haptic feedback profiles for the rotary dial, and axis tuning for the 6-DoF spatial controller. Keymaps and profiles are stored directly on the hardware, so the device can operate without the software installed. Currently, the Naya keyboard supports Windows and macOS, with Linux support under development. This concept reminds me of the LILYGO T-Keyboard-S3-Pro, which supports daisy-chaining of up to six keyboards.
The Naya Connect project is live on Kickstarter, and the company raised close to $500,000 so far, with 11 days to go. Early Bird rewards start at about $143 for the mechanical keyboard only, and the full All-in bundle with the modular keyboard, two docks, and four modules is priced at around $779 (€649), with shipping expected between February and May 2027, depending on the selected perks, so over one year from now…
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