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Tips & Tricks

Gasket mount Draculad case

A custom gasked mount Draculad case shared by chewiedies.

BLOCK by HIBI

After last week's post, Kate of HIBI got back to me with more info on her uniform BLOCK keycap profile.

Typing Tempo

A typing rhythm game by charitea12: Typing Tempo.

Doys & BLOCK caps

Two uniform keycap profiles with a retro square base: Doys by Deadline.Studio and BLOCKs by HIBI.

URSA keycap profile

URSA is a new keycap profile designed for Topre keyboards – a collab between 23_Andreas and FKcaps.

Pi5 case with cover

The angled ortho Pi5 keyboard by ihihbs has no a MCU cover and a case.

XVX Cube keycaps

XVX is planning on releasing their transparent Cube keycaps with detachable legends.

ffkb low profile trackball case

Sadek Baroudi published the files of this ffkb low profile trackball case.

Nydas Amoeba

Another single-key PCB for keyboards: Nydas Amoeba by Andy Sawyer.

Rectangular ffkb case

A rectangular case for the ffkb shared by Sadek Baroudi.

Humla laptop adapter

A laptop adapter plate for the Wee Humla by Lenbok.

QMK RGB Matrix configuration

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

CDSA is a new sculpted spherical Choc keycap profile shared by Alescito: a remix of LDSA and Cherry.

NK Cream+ with inserts

The NK Cream+ switches from NovelKeys come with different inserts that alter the sound profile.

Art Deco Macropad Case

A Bioshock inspired art deco macropad case by ZackGear.

Shift Happens

Marcin Wichary's upcoming book on typewriters and keyboards, Shift Happens, has a dedicated site now.

Keyboard as Python code

A keyboard designed entirely in Python – by hsgwchan.

0xCB Helios

The 0xCB Helios is an Elite-C compatible development board sporting an RP2040 chip.

Boston case

Technofrikus shared a case design for Pylon's Boston, a compact 120%.

Fusion with supercap

Fusion by steven4012 updated with a supercap and solar charging.

No-glue 3D case

A two-part 3D printed case by hello_smbj without gluing/welding.

Low Power Improved Square Matrix

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 on the way

MBK Convex and MBK POM keycaps are on the way to vendors.

Sea-Picro

Josh Johnson released the Sea-Picro, a Pro Micro alternative with RP2040 and some neat features.

Trackball bearing comparison

A comparison of trackball bearings: (cheap) rollers, BTUs and static bearings – by wiwilwi.

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