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Inspiration

TiPY one-handed keyboard

TiPY Keyboard's weird one-handed contraption is actually flippable.

Carved case 2

A gorgeous wooden keyboard case by Breakwood with meticulously carved and gold plated solid copper insets.

Wooden cyberdeck

Combining woodworking with electronics, mw33212 made a walnut cyberdeck with a cheap foldable keyboard.

Interchangeable tops

Keycaps with interchangeable tops posted by hunghingdailo.

Dyed... everything!

Custom dyed cable parts voxels-box – all to match an artisan.

Ceramic keycaps

HydrakeyCeramic introduces new ceramic keycaps.

Assembling 100.000 switches per day

Muilkinginuk posted a video of the assembly line at TTC(?) manufacturing 100 thousand switches per day.

Mason60 - Art Series

Sneak peek into how the Mason60 keyboard cases and wrist rests are made.

Inflated keycaps

You can air-type on these inflated keycaps by Running Guy Studio.

Cisne

Suika's Cisne is a cool 40% monoblock with 5% tenting.

Synx42

A clean ultra-low profile ortho split design by @ak1_foo – with Kailh X-switches and only 7.3mm overall height.

Dygma "OLKB"

Dygma announced a new columnarly staggered split keyboard model.

Minimizing finger movement

Two board concepts that minimize finger movement and use CircuitPython by SouthPawEngineer.

Brazen Studio's keyboard cases

Brazen Studio's Ian published some photos of their experimental gypsum/resin and cement/resin cases.

Onehand -- a one-handed keyboard

SouthPawEngineer's Onehand is a creatively named accessible keyboard with five-way switches.

Hakkei HX-S1 keyboard

A classy detachable split prototype with slightly scooped case/plate.

Touchboard

The Touchboard is an all-in-one human input device concept by the German Butterfly Company.

Saddle keycap profile

A great write-up on the evolution and ergonomics of 大岡俊彦's saddle keycap profile.

Uncokeeb

The Uncokeeb by bluesocarrot is a per-finger chorded keyboard concept prototype.

FinnGus keyboard kit

FinnGus is a cat shaped 3D printed through-hole FR4 Alice style kit inspired by the cats (Finn and Gus) of JackPikatea.

Hollow 3D keycaps

Some inspiration for you: these strange 3D structures by @taneyats are actual keycaps.

1,048 buttons to press

Tokyo based elevator button manufacturer Shimada Denki Seisakusho set up a wall of 1,048 buttons to press.

Medley of crazy ideas

Big-ass enter with embedded touchpad, artisan OLED covers, prototyping with rails, LED indicator light using a BIC ballpoint tube.

A heavyweight fullsize with handle

Filco's 4.4kg heavyweight fullsize with steel top plate and handle.

Corne Architect case

Daily inspiration: a nice blend of walnut and acrylic.

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