Issue 189 / Week 12 / 2025

Timbetimbe of ergokeyboards.com designed an alternative case for the Crosses PCB. With less than vertical thumb cluster angle this time. Files this way.

I don't know about you, but for me personally, seeing projects like this DIY force curve meter results in an hour of Aliexpress browsing… DIY force curve meter by 13ckPony.

Glass substrate keyboard by BranchNo9329.

Science6uru discovered that nerf darts fit under keycaps.

Hyper7 R4 from mechboards.co.uk. New run. Pre-assembled, kit or barebones.

Keebmaker custom Ferris Sweep Bling LP – posted by sillypwilly.

A handwired unibody split: Iridiumfly by boring-beaver aka gwirn.

Ikeji posted a sliding keyboard based on silent square microswitches and a UIAPduino (CH32V003) devboard.

Meme board: The 1000 most common words + modifiers OLKB.

Roy's Game Roy ADVANCE is a split where the halves communicate over TRRS or Game Boy link cable.

The low-pro split Xaivent by WoodenCod is just 9mm thick. (The PCB has a cutout for the nice!nano / nice!view sandwich.)

AUM is a Corne-derivative by TemperatureAgile.

Rain2's Meka and Meka 2. Katana vs Alice layout with trackball.

Galium58 by ooepi – with scroll wheel.

Wallet42 – after the initial drawings by Notxtwhiledrive, here is a working handwired prototype.

MDR Touch Refiner by panacamanana.

Atomic Blast v2 is a handwired ortho board by anz507 – with rotary encoder and a toggle switch for Caps Lock.

Totemist by ergomech.store – drawing inspiration from the Totem keyboards, but with key refinements to enhance usability while staying true to a purist, no-frills design.

Ryan Norbauer's $3600 Seneca deserves a mention too.

As author Matt Adereth made us aware, the Dactyl turned 10! (The initial commit is dated March 7, 2015.)

Hm. A wooden Cherry G80 posted by kossmetics. With sound test.

A few years ago I was eyeing with just the keyboard of this Fanuc for months. Now PipeMasterPerry posted some photos to fire up my dormant gear acquisition syndrome.

Full CNC Dragon Ball keycap set coming in aluminum or zink alloy – by Keeyblock. Jeez, we usually see such things in dye sub and plastic. Lots of other cool metal artisans by the team.

TereminGoat's 5th birthday collection update with 3,500 unique switches. Kind of like pixel art. Speaking of…

Keyboard pixel art wallpaper by kellandrasue.

Bad Temper mod – beekeeb board posted by alex35mil.

There've been some Wolfjaw posts recently. This raw bronze one with the patina was treated with a combination of ammonia and salt – by whitefacemountain.