Behind the scenes #195

Keyboard Builders’ Digest / Editorial

Behind the scenes #195

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

dovenyi
Printed July 22, 2025

Hey, what’s up everybody!

Welcome again for one more recap and behind-the-scenes write-up – with some cool tasks from the DIY keyboard scene, but in addition promising closed-source tasks and even prototypes.

In case you are new to kbd.information, you may learn how this began out and what that is all about these days. In case you like what you see, subscribe to the publication (free) and donate some bucks to maintain this in any other case free and ad-free challenge alive.

I am not solely positive what is going on on. This website often will get about 150,000 distinctive guests per 30 days, whereas there was a few-days peak leading to 300,000 readers(?) earlier final week. Solely in Cloudflare and different server-side stats although, not e.g. in Analytics. So perhaps some information had been deeplinked? I am unsure. Cannot actually see something suspicious, nonetheless getting useful resource restrict errors on some pageloads.

Anyway..

Some posts price sharing

• Overview: The NPKC RO75, NPKClub‘s first self-developed mannequin, is a bang-for-your-buck 75% wi-fi keyboard in a hefty alu case, with cool matching keycap units.

• Brian Schwind launched his key-ripper keyboard, with customized Rust firmware.

• Mike Hölscher launched the information of his mikecinq, a ULP monoblock cut up that includes PG1316S switches.

• Dane Lipscombe‘s Harite v3 is one other iteration on his directional keyboard, now with 4-way joysticks.

• The Raven is a 42-key wi-fi cut up by ohemaag.

• A diodeless model of the unique, utilizing graph concept this time: Gamma Omega TC36k.

• A hardly ever seen open-source fullsize keyboard: Alcatel100 shared by nearestexit.

• HedgeHog is a brand new low-pro keycap profile by turtle-bazon. Uniform, spherical, supporting Choc and MX stems and spacings.

• Launched by Jan-Philipp Fischer, YADS is a dongle display screen for ZMK.

• TypingGym is a clear a easy app by FroyoAbject, specializing in accuracy over velocity. I appreciated this one.

• TypeQuicker Code, because the title implies, helps you apply typing in your favourite programming language. Have not tried this, it badly wants a login-free demo.

• Vial 0.7.4 launched. Chordal Maintain, Circulate Faucet, Repeat Key, Caps Phrase. Layer lock, and so forth. Shared by pgetreuer.

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

• A mikefive various by Extra-Inventory. With extremely low-pro PG switches, Cirque trackpad and show.

• Dactyl Lynx by David H. Bronke. A reinplementation of the Dactyl with bigger, extra vertical thumb clusters.

• baucts designed and made a pleasant 60% board with XT-ish structure.

• a_l_k_0‘s Cornedeon is a modified Corne: handwired 3 further keys to the PCB.

• Soleil – a photo voltaic powered wi-fi TKL. Posted by CannonKeys.

• HellSplit – a bit uneven 40% handwired cut up by RunRunAndyRun.

• Kind together with your toes as Sergei Silnov aka Pinya does it together with his Toepad.

• I’ve already mentined the Soleil above, however I like this angle and the wood accents. Rather a lot to be sincere.

• A stunning 75% wi-fi board from KiiBOOM – the Phantom 81 Lite. There are 4 themes accessible, mine is the inexperienced frog variant with cute caps and additional stickers.

• And a Syntech Chronos 68, an aluminum HE board with a really comfortable wrist relaxation beside all of the magnetic options. I like this white/yellow variant one of the best.

Evaluations later.

Donations

• Two new recurring donations: by Filip S. and TurkeyBoards‘s James. Thanks guys!

For all of the donation choices try the donation web page!

Distributors & Reductions

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

New outlets and updates to the database of keyboard distributors this previous week:

• Full QwertyKeys retailer revamp. (Announcement.) By now you’ve got missed the limited-time launch sale on Neo & QK keyboards, however try the location anyway. Plenty of cool stuff. Yummy!!

• As well as, I marked some outlets as closed/closing. E.g. Keebhut.

Developments

I am nonetheless testing and tweaking the brand new swap comparability options. Too many sorts of switches, too many different issues to do…

—

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

Till subsequent time,
Tamás

Printed on Tue twenty second Jul 2025. Featured in KBD #195.

---

Associated

Behind the scenes #190

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

---

---

---

---

Behind the scenes #160

Keyboard tasks, fast information, within the mailbox, meetups, new distributors and many low cost codes!

---

---