Tips & Tricks A custom gasked mount Draculad case shared by chewiedies.
After last week's post, Kate of HIBI got back to me with more info on her uniform BLOCK keycap profile.
A typing rhythm game by charitea12: Typing Tempo.
Two uniform keycap profiles with a retro square base: Doys by Deadline.Studio and BLOCKs by HIBI.
URSA is a new keycap profile designed for Topre keyboards – a collab between 23_Andreas and FKcaps.
The angled ortho Pi5 keyboard by ihihbs has no a MCU cover and a case.
XVX is planning on releasing their transparent Cube keycaps with detachable legends.
Sadek Baroudi published the files of this ffkb low profile trackball case.
Another single-key PCB for keyboards: Nydas Amoeba by Andy Sawyer.
A rectangular case for the ffkb shared by Sadek Baroudi.
A laptop adapter plate for the Wee Humla by Lenbok.
The focus of Sadek Baroudi's tutorial is how to properly configure RGB Matrix especially for non-trivial ergo keyboards with angles and column stagger.
CDSA is a new sculpted spherical Choc keycap profile shared by Alescito: a remix of LDSA and Cherry.
The NK Cream+ switches from NovelKeys come with different inserts that alter the sound profile.
A Bioshock inspired art deco macropad case by ZackGear.
Marcin Wichary's upcoming book on typewriters and keyboards, Shift Happens, has a dedicated site now.
A keyboard designed entirely in Python – by hsgwchan.
The 0xCB Helios is an Elite-C compatible development board sporting an RP2040 chip.
Technofrikus shared a case design for Pylon's Boston, a compact 120%.
Fusion by steven4012 updated with a supercap and solar charging.
A two-part 3D printed case by hello_smbj without gluing/welding.
This post by wolfwood proposes a modification to the improved square keyboard matrix in order to support a low power wake-on-keypress mode, which has been a deficiency of this design until now.
MBK Convex and MBK POM keycaps are on the way to vendors.
Josh Johnson released the Sea-Picro, a Pro Micro alternative with RP2040 and some neat features.
A comparison of trackball bearings: (cheap) rollers, BTUs and static bearings – by wiwilwi.
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