Behind the scenes #194

Keyboard Builders’ Digest / Editorial

Behind the scenes #194

Keyboard tasks, suggestions, fast information, keyboard artwork, within the mailbox, meetups, distributors, reductions.

dovenyi
Revealed July 15, 2025

Hey, what’s up everybody!

Welcome again for an additional recap and behind-the-scenes write-up – with June’s best-selling switches, some cool tasks from the DIY keyboard scene, but in addition promising closed-source tasks and even prototypes. Examine goodies in my mailbox from Apos and 3dkeycap, upcoming meetups, and rather more.

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Simply bought again from my vacation btw, so I’ve an enormous backlog. That mentioned, the cutoff date for this concern was about 10 days in the past. I have been busily bookmarking attention-grabbing tasks within the meantime although, so I am going to function more moderen stuff within the coming days.

Some posts price sharing

• On this newest market overview of the best-selling mechanical switches, listed below are June’s high picks, based mostly on gross sales information supplied by distributors and producers. Some late information added – price one other scroll even in case you’ve learn it after publication.

• Evaluate: The magnetic Mercury V75 Professional HE – hand-painted aluminum alloy case, carbon plate, the hallmark alien legs, and all of the Corridor-effect options for aggressive players. One other masterpiece by GravaStar.

• Heatwave is a 36-key wi-fi, curved unibody break up keyboard by dohn-joh – with built-in lever keycaps.

• Sergei Silnov‘s Aronia is now open supply: a ultra-low profile foldable unibody break up.

• Alex Grau made the Smashboard, an ortholinear Bluetooth break up keyboard.

• A compact, no-frills, and low-cost ergo break up: Slimkeeb36 by Keji Li.

• An open-source 75/80% keyboard with encoder and show: Easy75 by Eddy Zhao.

• A wi-fi low-pro break up by Andrew: the open-source Scyboard.

• A low-pro break up keyboard by meepodeep: the ErgoDecks with two impartial Bluetooth halves.

• Typing assessments: Typecelerate by sock_pup is a apply app that targets your weaknesses. And typingspeed.app by No_a mApricot is an easier one.

• RazgrizHsu‘s karabiner-ts-config is a TypeScript-based device for constructing Karabiner Parts configuration information with type-safe Fluent API design.

Remodel hours of repetitive JSON enhancing into minutes of chic TypeScript programming. Our real-world instance (raz.ts) demonstrates an unimaginable 78x effectivity enchancment – Raz.

Closed-source, business, WIP, and so forth.

• Bug54 V0.2 replace: energy swap and reset button added.

• Ali is a handwired Bluetooth monoblock ergo break up venture by ohemaag – with case information.

• Swifty50 by Feisty_Place. One other PG1316S extremely low-pro break up.

• Kaizen is dbsds87‘s low-pro ergo unibody. Repo WIP.

• Nuty60 by Nutylabs. A pleasant break up with low-pro KS-33 hotswap or MX soldered swap assist.

• Plancké – a case for a Planck by bankair. To repair a damaged USB-C port.

• Hmm. Sunder C60 HE by sunderkeyboards’ squishy_liquid. A 4×6 Corridor impact break up.

• This steampunkish abomination is mainly a modded Sofle – halves linked by aluminum mouse housing and laptop computer hinges. By Cacklefruit.

• Artisan field by TNdesignstudio. Aluminum physique, acrylic lid, stackable.

• A stunning NPKC Studio RO75 was despatched to me by Apos. Thanks! Appears and feels nice, cool shade choices with matching keycaps. Evaluate quickly.

• As well as, a set of keycap tilters from 3dkeycap‘s Loïc, alongside different samples. The tilters are a prototype set to transform any MX-compatible keyboard right into a contoured, DIY keywell board. (Not but out there, however take a look at all the great keycaps and equipment supplied by 3dkeycap.)

• New recurring donations arrange by BeaverKeys and 0xcircuitbreaker. Thanks!
• And donations from Hal Frigaard and rollolinsky. Thanks!
• As at all times, many because of my superior common supporters and everybody who helped this venture so far.

For all of the donation choices take a look at the donation web page!

Meetup database

As at all times, this meetup database serves as each a calendar and an archive, so be at liberty to ship me upcoming occasions and even ones from the current previous to make this assortment as complete as potential.

Just lately added

• Philadelphia Keyboard Meetup Summer season 2025, August 9, Philadelphia, PA, US
• Minnesota Meetup 2025, August 23, Saint Paul, MN, US
• MYMK Meetup 2025, August 30, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
• Italian MK Meetup 2025, September 6, Bologna, Italy
• QWERTYFEST 2025, October 3, Milwaukee, WI, US

Distributors & Reductions

Be happy to make use of the KBDNEWS low cost code at 178 keyboard retailers! And don’t hesitate to report any points!

New retailers and updates to the database of keyboard distributors this previous two weeks:

• Bowl Keyboards (US) added.
• Sunder (Singapore) added. Pre-built Corridor impact splits, like the brand new C60 HE talked about above.

Developments

I’m constructing out the swap comparability function: side-by-side specs, plus a option to discover options based mostly on how carefully a swap’s attributes match others. Really, I am nearly completed, some testing continues to be wanted although. To be rolled out later this month.

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That is all for immediately. Thanks for checking by. As at all times: Continue learning and constructing!

Till subsequent time,
Tamás

Revealed on Tue fifteenth Jul 2025. Featured in KBD #194.

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