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Trackball, Trackpoint, Touchpad, Key Cluster... what's next? ⌨️

If you could design a brand-new UHK module, what would it do?

No boundaries here—let your imagination run wild! 👇

#UHK #UltimateHackingKeyboard #CustomKeyboard #MechanicalKeyboard #ErgoKeyboard

Trackball, Trackpoint, Touchpad, Key Cluster... what's next? ⌨️

If you could design a brand-new UHK module, what would it do?

No boundaries here—let your imagination run wild! 👇

#UHK #UltimateHackingKeyboard #CustomKeyboard #MechanicalKeyboard #ErgoKeyboard

Trackball, Trackpoint, Touchpad, Key Cluster... what's next? ⌨️

If you could design a brand-new UHK module, what would it do?

No boundaries here—let your imagination run wild! 👇

#UHK #UltimateHackingKeyboard #CustomKeyboard #MechanicalKeyboard #ErgoKeyboard

Kritikpunkte angegangen: Neue Firmware verbessert die PureWriter W100 https://www.computerbase.de/news/tastaturen/kritikpunkte-angegangen-neue-firmware-verbessert-die-purewriter-w100.99211/ #sharkoon #mechanicalkeyboard #rgb

I got the itch to build another keyboard recently, and wanted to try my hand at a dactyl-style.

These flexible "pumpkin" PCBs are an incredible time saver!

https://ryanis.cool/cosmos/pumpkin/

#mechanicalkeyboard #bambuLabs #3dprinting

First working full assembly of my #RugbyUnion 15-a-side diode-free monobody tented #ErgoMechKeyboard, with a reversible PCB joined by 16 short wires (much fiddlier than I expected), in a case printed in Tinmorry Galaxy Green PLA, fitted with black resin Chicago Stenographer keycaps (printed by #JLCPLC who did my PCB too), and 1.5u MBK in the corners and on the thumbs (later should be 1.75u but I only have one of those to hand). Running #ZMK firmware (with #QMK and #RMK testing pending).

Design files for this #MechanicalKeyboard are here https://codeberg.org/peterjc/pico-keyboards/src/branch/main/rugbyunion with build guide and improved case design pending.

@AAMfP try disabling or even removing (the keycaps or even switches for) a few rows/columns now to test out the potential smaller layout and if you can stand it or not? Personally I’m on 30 keys now… #ErgoMechKeyboard #MechanicalKeyboard

So I've counted. I now have 29 Plum Blossom, 3 Cherry Blossom and 53 Sunset switches. I also have two MBK Glow (one black, one white) keycap sets and an extra white KLP Lamé PBT cap set but I only have two Corne PCBs and cases that both have a full compliment of Plum/Cherry Blossom switches and KLP Lamé caps already. What to do. What to do. #ErgoMechKeyboard #MechanicalKeyboard

Thinking I might like to buy a new keyboard, so I thought I'd be smart and just buy new keycaps (KLP Lamé) as it was cheaper. Now I have enough spare switches and a spare set of keycaps for another keyboard, I just need boards and cases. 🤦

#MechanicalKeyboard #ErgomechKeyboard #Corne #CRKBD #3DKeycap #KLPLame #AstroErgoKeyboards

CHERRY XTRFY K63W Pro might be the coolest gaming keyboard announced at Computex 2026

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/cherry-xtrfy-k63w-pro-gaming-keyboard/

Good news: Even though [I thought] my new #ErgoMechKeyboard design uses 16mm vertical spacing, both my Choc v1 Chicago Stenographer #keycaps and my (preferred) Choc v1 KLP Lamé saddle (#3DPrinted at JLCPLC in resin) work just fine. I was worried I'd not be able to use this new #MechanicalKeyboard without ordering some even more niche minimal-y spaced keycaps. l'll get some matching 1.5u wide caps done at some point...

Bad news: Broke the stem of yet another doing the swap - these things are fragile! Push from below, don't pull!

I made another #ErgoMechKeyboard, taking the ribbon cable idea for my Bivouac34, and the 32-key layout and a 5-way navigation button from my Bivvy16D #SplitKeyboard. This is my Goldilocks32 #MechanicalKeyboard - another diode-free design with a #GraphTheory based sparse scanning matrix https://astrobeano.blogspot.com/2026/03/goldilocks-30-to-32-key-keyboard.html

It's a keyboard!

#mechanicalkeyboard #ergomechkeyboard #maizeless

That’s two superficially very similar DIY #ErgoMechKeyboard prototypes on my desk right now, in green with KLP Lamé keycaps, and in red with Chicago Stenographer keycaps.

Both sets of #MechanicalKeyboard PCBs are just taped to a cardboard structure to test angles for comfort - about ~40 degree tenting (angle up from table) and ~40 yaw (angle between the halves).

The twin-PCB #ErgoMechKeyboard idea using #GoldFingers and a PCB edge connector ribbon cable works! My 6th #MechanicalKeyboard design - and one of the easiest to assemble with just an RP2040-Zero and hotswap sockets to solder.

I have not run out of new things I want to try yet 😅 https://astrobeano.blogspot.com/2026/02/two-tiny-10x10cm-pcbs-for-keyboards.html

OK they’re portable and flexible to get the most comfortable angles, but a DIY split #ErgoMechKeyboard has it’s downsides!

There’s Bluetooth pairing or janky cables to worry about (TRRS has a short circuit risk), two controllers to solder, trickier firmware, etc.

But what prompted this was the much higher risk of knocking one half off your desk! Only realised today, but when I chipped the corner of my Forager based keyboard this also looks to have broken the tiny #SeeedXiao reset button. That in turn leaves me no easy way to reflash the keyboard when my new #ZMK firmware isn’t working 😱

All in all, a mono body #MechanicalKeyboard with a split layout at a comfy angle seems like a safer bet for me… #SplitKeyboard

Regarding the other unfinished #MechanicalKeyboard on my desk: The TRRS sockets to finish soldering up this #ErgoMechKeyboard should arrive today - but I’ve only just noticed the 3.5mm cable I planned to use that came with my Corne #SplitKeyboard has only theee wires (like a standard headphone jack). This needs four wires for full duplex communication - so another delay waiting on parts 🤦‍♂️

I still don’t have the TRRS sockets to finish soldering this wired split #MechanicalKeyboard, so for now I’m testing it as two half keyboards and trying to find the best angles for the planned single piece follow up #ErgoMechKeyboard - here’s a cardboard prototype of a ~40 degree tended keyboard. It feels a bit too high up (could be lowered about 2cm), but usable…

I've been having fun with the artistic possibilities of #PCB design within #KiCad - I have seen some stunning bits of art in this medium (#PCBArt)!

This #MechanicalKeyboard PCB art effort is much simpler, some line art imported as a silkscreen graphic, and then some simple texturing with the ground fill hatching.

(Why a tent? This is a small tented #ErgoMechKeyboard, meaning the PCB and keys are tilted relative to the table. The keyboard has 34 keys and the name Bivouac34 refers to a small wild camp)

Initial feedback from Eldest on their first #MechanicalKeyboard (my Slump52):

The keys are too hard to press (35g red pros for the letters, and 50g red switches for the rest - just what I had on hand), easily fixed $$$ but for now it almost forces them into one finger typing.

The 5 key jams on the 2 key, more sanding of the keycaps required (had this with the A and F keys too).

And from my point of view, as an #ErgoMechKeyboard, the top pinky/ring keys would take some getting used to!

It started out smoothly, then got a bit tricky (can you see the two bodge wires on the back?), but my fourth #MechanicalKeyboard PCB design is assembled and working - suspect eldest will not want to wait till Christmas to try it out - will it pass as an #ErgoMechKeyboard? 🎄⌨️

A shame the Chosfox CFX keycap set didn’t include 1u Escape, shift, backspace, tab, nor anything like a cross or asterisk for the multiplication key on my layout 🤷

My first designed from scratch #MechanicalKeyboard has arrived from JLCPLC - fingers crossed it actually works once soldered up - but they did a good job with #3DPrinting the resin case (just need to sand the bottom a little), and it looks like it will all go together as planned - and in time for Christmas 🎄

Still unsure if it will count as an #ErgoMechKeyboard but that was the idea behind the curve aside the looks 🤞

See https://astrobeano.blogspot.com/2025/12/fourth-keyboard-slump52-with-numpad.html

🥳 Behold the Typeframe PX-88, where a Raspberry Pi meets a mechanical keyboard in a love story for the ages. Spoiler: it's a "portable computing system" that thinks it's a #cyberdeck but is just a glorified clicky keyboard with delusions of grandeur. 🚀 Perfect for those who think a Pi in a box will launch them into the hacker elite. 😂
https://www.typeframe.net/ #TypeframePX88 #RaspberryPi #MechanicalKeyboard #PortableComputing #HackerElite #HackerNews #ngated

My second #ErgoMechKeyboard was also featured on this Keyboard news blog https://kbd.news/Gamma-Omega-Hesse-2762.html - as was my first https://kbd.news/Gamma-Omega-TC36k-2690.html and the prior #GraphTheory diode-less #MechanicalKeyboard designs like https://kbd.news/JESK56-2322.html and https://kbd.news/reJESK-2485.html

I am slowly getting better at soldering, 4 out of 7 successful #MechanicalKeyboard PCBs now - all three of my diode-free #GraphTheory wired keyboard PCB designs have worked (eventually) ⌨️🎊

1️⃣ #RaspberryPiPico #RP2040 ‘Gamma Omega TC36K’ (USB only) http://astrobeano.blogspot.com/2025/08/my-first-self-built-computer-keyboard.html

2️⃣ #ProMicro #nRF52840 BLE ‘Gamma Omega Hesse’ https://astrobeano.blogspot.com/2025/10/hesse-diode-free-bluetooth-keyboard.html

3️⃣ #SeeedStudio #Xiao #SplitKeyboard BLE split Forager ‘Acid’ http://astrobeano.blogspot.com/2025/10/partial-heawood-forager-keyboard.html

#ErgoMechKeyboard #ErgonomicKeyboard

And then there were two: This post was typed on my phone using my first self built Bluetooth #ErgoMechKeyboard, running on battery power with #ZMK firmware: the Gamma Omega Hesse. Like my other #MechanicalKeyboard designs this has a diode-free PCB using #GraphTheory. https://github.com/unspecworks/gamma-omega/tree/main/hesse

Well, now that my lily58 ergo mech board is down I'm falling back to my spare. It's an Epomaker TH 66 and its fine for a standard board.

I got to say though going from column staggered back to row staggered is not a happy place for me.

#ergomechkeyboards #ergomechkeyboard #mechanicalkeyboard #mechanicalkeyboards

I'm crushed. The left half of my lily58 ergo mech keyboard started flaking out yesterday. Once plugged in it types 5tgb and then those keys go dead. I'm thinking a short.

It's a boardsource.xyz buy, not quite a year old. I'm going to reach out but any troubleshooting would be appreciated.

#mechanicalkeyboard #ergomechkeyboards #ergomechkeyboard #SplitMechanicalKeyboard

New #keyboard from #Varmilo: “Goddess Luo”. Chinese calligraphy. #Keycaps are nice if you’re into that stuff but I can think of lots of cap sets that would match the baseboard perfectly, including Ducky Azure or Afterglow, or even the chocolate and cream MT3 Noctua.

Based on the ancient Chinese poem “Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River”.

#mechanicalkeyboards #mechanicalkeyboard #mechkeys

@zhenech @ashyda @stdevel: *grübel* Frage mich grade, wieviele #Artisan #Keycaps ich habe. Viele sind's nicht:

Weiß-schwarz-grüner #DwarfFactory "The Snoob Bear" (in Farbkombi #Panda) für ein #Varmilo "Panda" TKL. Passt perfekt. (Bild noch aus der Zeit auf einem 65%.)

"#KeebMonkey #Macintosh #Keycap", ein Pärchen aus "Tastatur" (Tab-) und "Monitor" (Escape-Taste).

2 "#MiTo × Hot Keys Project Bucket Head" 🙈 passend zu SA Laser.

Achja, und 'n paar #Katzenpfoten-Keycaps. 🐾

#MechanicalKeyboard

Wochenrückblick, Ausgabe 32 (2024-11).

Diesmal mit

- dem Apple Wireless Keyboard, wie es mich viele Jahre begleitet hat und nun doch abgelöst wurde
- der jährlichen Fuhre Brennholz, die ich in der letzten Woche gesägt, gehackt und gestapelt habe (die Tage sind wieder schön lang!)
- einem kleinen Update für Bikerouter
- das erste Mal Grillen in diesem Jahr (bei 20 Grad Celsius Außentemperatur)
- Rest Server - einem HTTP-Backend für restic, der besten Backup-Software der Welt
- der Reinigung und Inbetriebnahme der Gartenmöbel, auf die sich in den letzten Monaten eine ziemlich ordentliche Schicht Patina gesetzt hatte
- einer sehr praktischen Option für das `sort`-Kommando
- meiner Linksammlung zur Farce mit dem von der Gemeinde Bestensee entfernten Anti-Rassismus-Banner an der örtlichen Grundschule
- und wie immer Techno.

#Apple #Keyboard #MechanicalKeyboard #Brennholz #Holz #Bikerouter #Grillen #Barbecue #BBQ #restic #Backup #SysOps #Garten #sort #GNU #Bestensee #Techno

https://www.marcusjaschen.de/blog/2024/2024-11/

Anyone else out there disconnect one #mechanicalkeyboard and connect another one for the day - just for fun? No? Just me?

Switched out the #Varmilo for my #Keychron C3 as I plan to do a stack of typing today - the C3 is softer on the hands and ears and a little better than the V for "cruise control" data entry, if that makes sense. Maybe it only makes sense to me. "Why not use it all the time then, Dhry?"

JCVD says it better than I ever could. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8yuk3lXINY

#Varmilo keyboard, Van Gogh “Starry Night” #keycaps. How can you NOT like this? 🤩 #mechanicalkeyboards #mechanicalkeyboard #mechkeys

Six years ago today per #DayOne, I received my first boutique #mechanicalkeyboard, a #Varmilo VA87M. It was my second actual MK, but the very first TKL, the first that could be typed on at night without waking up the entire neighborhood, and the first to make me truly fall in love with the hobby. (The kiddo in the pic is now a 6’1 giant.)

#Mechanicalkeyboards #mechkeys

#varmilo #Sword68 keebs. $230 - pretty hefty - but do yourself a favour and take a look at them. See how purty they are. Wish, wish and daydream about typing on one. https://keyboard.varmilo.com/p/482

#Mechanicalkeyboards #mechanicalkeyboard #mechkeys

New Halloweenesque #Varmilo. #Mechanicalkeyboards #mechanicalkeyboard #mechkeys