Keyboard Builders' Digest / Column / Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks

Switching to Colemak

The main stages and impressions of Tanukishouten switching to Colemak during the holidays.

Custom PCB design workflow

Ben Vallack's video demonstrates a workflow of making your custom PCB with Ergopad, Ergogen and KiCAD.

Thumb paddle

Open-source thumb paddles by Troy Fletcher – for activating switches with less thumb motion.

Corne and Lily58 stacked cases

Open-source full body sandwich cases for the Corne and Lily58 by atlantesque.

SKUF keyboard feet

The open-source SKUF is an attempt to standardize the rubber feet used for custom mechanical keyboard projects.

Raised thumb keys

A split keyboard by ak66666 with thumb keys raised above the rest.

Atreis PCB

Atreis PCB by Jesus Climent.

Continuously variable tenting

Continuously Variable Tenting – An 3D-printed open-source tenting solution by macroxue.

CXA keycap profile

CannonKeys announces CannonCaps CXA – a spherical keycap profile with a height similar to that of Cherry.

Zeal Clickiez

Zeal's new clicky switch features a secondary spring leaf which can turn the switch into a tactile or linear.

Sweep case

An open-source 3D-printed case for the Sweep keyboard, designed by Knifa.

Keycap bleach/fading test

Results of an experiment investigating the effect of sunlight on an anodized keycap's color – committed by flehrad.

Discolored aluminum case

Fudgeybits reports a strange discoloration of his KBDfans aluminum case.

Milling/casting stepped keycaps

A video by keymacs about milling and casting twin-Alps mount stepped keycaps.

Single-handed ergo keyboard/layout

A great one-handed keyboard project by key-yack with lots of ideas and links to related resources.

Stenotypy / Spellbook

Stenotypy (aka Spellbook) is a true QWERTY steno dictionary with a couple thousand entries by solomonkimrey.

Radio interference regulations and keyboards

As Pylon points out, your custom keyboard is probably illegal. A post on radio interference testing regulations.

Turn on/off clickiness

A macropad by Anis-mit-I that is switchable between clicky and linear.

Doubleshots from 1988

Doubleshots do wear out over time. Photo taken by jsheradin.

Switch sound tester

Don tries to standardize sound tests with his testing rig.

Splatter painted keycaps

Human_Evolution shares his experiences with splatter painting a keyboard in the '80/90s style.

Cyberpunk OLED glitch

A cool OLED glitch animation by Aleks with open-source firmware and bitmap frames.

Keycaps from bottle caps

LODGE, a Japanese makerspace offers workshops where you can make your own keycaps from bottle caps.

IBM Model M122 classification

SharktasticA reworked his page on differences between and classifications of IBM Model M122s.

Skådis made keeb-friendly

The familiar Skådis pegboard made keeb-friendly by jk_pens.