Tips & Tricks Not a keyboard, but a potential companion to one: Ploopy Trackpad.
Glyphica: Typing Survival is a roguelite survival game that lets you mow down hordes of enemies in a minimalist arena using your finger dexterity and your choice of weapons.
Based on his trackpoint builds, heyisjambo shares his experiences on how to integrate a trackpoint into your keyboard (ZMK).
Solder Party is expanding their Stamp line with new controllers: the RP2350 Stamp and Stamp XL are devboards with up to 48 GPIO pins.
In this case study I type out the Harry Potter books to demonstrate the power of alternative layouts and keymap customization.
Zac Morhous' Allium58CAD has a custom magnetic case snapping to a SpaceMouse.
Emil shared Kada 0110, a 3D case inspired by the Apple M0110 and Apple II.
A father and son team designed replacement keycaps for the AlphaSmart Neo, bringing an old keyboard back to life with some low-cost modern tech.
As announced by Lowpro.ca, Ambients Silents, truly quiet Choc switches redesigned from the ground up, are in stock now.
How to add Quantum Painter/color LCD to (almost) any QMK keyboard – a tutorial by Esse Woods aka OakNinja .
Semickolon shared some updates to the FAK firmware, along with Partycrasher Micro, a Pro Micro drop-in replacement.
A 65% keyboard case inspired by the ZX Spectrum: Kada Spectrum by Emil.
The SpaceFN concept - setting up your space key as a layer switch when held - is probably one of the most useful tweaks in the keyboard hobby. Let me explain it.
Shared by Kea Workshop's Claude, the KW keycap profile is uniform, spherical, MX-sized, and compatible with Choc V1 switches.
3D printed sculpted and tented keycaps by ze_or.
EurKoi shared a 3D-printed case for the Corne in the style of Angrymiao's AFA.
A 3D printable enclosure for the Adafruit Macropad PCB – designed by Kronocide, inspired by the Nuphy Halo 96 keyboard.
A Crkbd laptop dock by a8ksh4 designed for his Steam Deck.
DDC is a new cylindrical keycap profile for Choc switches – designed by LowproKB.
Taiwanese keycap manufacturer Tai-Hao is about to roll out a new family of low-pro caps – for both Choc and MX switches.
Chris Trotter's Fusion360 tutorial details how to design custom parametric keywells, used e.g. for his ArcBoard.
A keyboard design framework with adjustable columns on a rail system: Seismos by Danny Vo.
Tardigrade shared some 3D models to fill the gaps of Alice boards.
Magnetic case and tenting for the Sweep keyboard: Msweep by Runningtarrens.
Victor published the CLP keycap profile, comprising a set of 19 nice sculpted keycap variants for MX switches.
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