Tips & Tricks

Transparent hotswap sockets

After colorful ones, Chosfox announced transparent hotswap sockets.

Colorful hotswap sockets

Durock came out with some new hotswap sockets in vivid colors.

HuB keycap profile

HuB is a lesser-known sculpted and spherical keycap profile – designed by trashman back in 2016.

Keytok two-part "OEM"

On the two-part OEM keycap profile manufactured by Keytok – with some insider info.

Maglev mounting

Colfy's Shou65 is a keyboard with floating maglev plate/PCB.

MTNU keycap profile

Matt3o announced that his WIP MTNU keycap profile will be manufactured by GMK.

Umo case

Umō by Ergorius is a top-mount 3D-printable case for the 40% Yasui PCB.

MBK Convex

Exciting POM keycaps for Choc switches on the horizon. MBK Convex caps are a joint effort by Max Burger and Stephen Cheng.

BOBO keycap profile

BoBo is a new uniform keycap profile from Tai Hao.

Tented wrist rest

A 3D printable tented frame by hephaestus_b designed to accommodate the popular gel wrist rest.

Colorful silk screen

PCBBuy is experimenting with a colorful soldermask printing method and shared some photos of the results.

Modular wrist-rest

Customniches made a 3D-printed modular wrist-rest to fit his collection.

Mineral trackball

Working on the next iteration of his Dactyl, spacecadetAlsoWizard used a sodalite sphere as trackball.

Cityscape48

@tsukasa_metam's Cityscape48 is a pretty unique split keyboard with a multi-layer PCB construction to achieve a faux-keywell effect.

Ergogen talk

Author mrzealot gave a talk on Ergogen at Free Software Conference.

Swell68 case

A gummy o-ring mount case for the CIY Tester 68 keyboard by RogerArbogast.

BFY-1

The BFY-1 (the beefy one) by bad1o8o is a 18x6 ortho with case STLs.

Home-made double-shot caps

For his 3D printed low-pro keyboard, Pavlo Khmel uses self-made double-shot keycaps.

Improved square matrix

The improved square matrix is actually a round-robin matrix handling the same number of switches – but with less diodes.

Tilted Choc stem

Gurtmail published a 3D-printed tilted stem for Choc keycaps.

Square or round-robin matrix

Let me introduce the square or round-robin matrix (aka Charlieplexing for keyboards) – a very tricky one promising 380 keys with a single Pro Micro.

Truchet tiles

Random Truchet tiles on your PCB's silk screen.

The (Japanese) duplex matrix

There are two completely different keyboard matrices referred to as duplex matrix. Let's examine the Japanese one, which makes possible to handle 160-200 keys with a single Pro Micro.

Homemade key socket cover

A homemade key socket cover open-sourced by qubist1.

Seeeduino Xiao RP2040

Another RP2040-based controller with relatively small form factor: Seeeduino Xiao RP2040.