Behind the scenes #199

Hey, what’s up everybody!

Welcome again for an additional recap and behind-the-scenes write-up – with some cool tasks from the DIY keyboard scene, but additionally 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. If you happen to 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.

PSA: I had a minor surgical procedure, and I am nonetheless recovering from it. I have never received again to a few of you, sorry. Attempting to work by way of my backlog.

Some posts value sharing

• Evaluation: The Evoworks Evo75 is a chic 75% tri-mode wi-fi keyboard with ball-catch and leaf-spring construction, coming in a large number of lovely variants. Meticulously designed and tuned for an distinctive out-of-the-box typing expertise.

• Dane Lipscombe shared his Tengoku, a break up keyboard with keywell and trackpads.

• ChnMasterOG launched the TrackPoint78, a three-mode wi-fi keyboard with built-in trackpoint.

• An open-source wi-fi ergo keyboard with trackpad and encoder: Daedalus by Perseus-Lynx.

• The Clacky Chan by Stephan Møller is an ergo break up with customized tenting and firmware.

• The Sputnik by Vostoklabs is an inexpensive handwired Corne-derivative, designed with give attention to sound.

• Coming quickly: A hardly ever seen weirdness – the 100% ND104 at Chilkey. With wonderful modular choices.

• The Keychron Q16 HE is a completely ceramic keyboard by Keychron. Yep. Full ceramic construct with ceramic case.

• Littol with katana stagger. Photograph by calumwri, board bought by CBKBD.

• Nama. Wuque Studio cooking up one thing mysterious.

• The Wanderer by kaumovich – Reviung format with Kailh PG1316 switches.

• Khm. The Puff40 is a keyboard mockup bought as a change tester, out there in varied cool colours on Aliexpress. C0qu1 determined to handwire one to show it right into a usable periphery: the puff40hw.

• Phalanx 36 by mkovaxx. A WIP wi-fi break up, absolutely eliminating lateral finger journey by sticking to 4 columns – one column per finger.

• Keyboard Format Editor NG by adamws. A reimplementation of the favored Keyboard Format Editor designed to offer a greater consumer expertise whereas sustaining compatibility with present layouts.
• WIP RAW HID challenge by mctechnology17: temperature and Spotify on a show.
• Adam Savage shot a video with Ryan Norbauer in regards to the Norbauer Seneca, “the world’s most overengineered keyboard”. Not even mentioning the value tag.

Historical past/Discovery

• I like the Telcon Zorba, similar to another baggage laptop of the time. 😉 Restored by Markerbin.

• Wow. Muji’s MIYO is a functioning analog watch keycap.

• Classic 75 CU, a construct by Soyabeansesame. “Can solely afford the least quantity of copper (about 0.4micron thick)”.

• I acquired a purple Era75 Cyberpunk from Womier, together with some change samples.

• Sungo and Chase M. have arrange recurring donations. Yay!
• Different new donors: Gautier M. and Rebecca L. Thanks everybody!
• And as all the time, many because of my superior common supporters and everybody who helped this challenge to this point.

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

Meetup database

As all the time, 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.

Upcoming meetups

Lately added

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Tokyo Keyboard Expo occurred in Akihabara on Sept 22. About 600–800 individuals attended, making it bigger than KeyCon this 12 months. Over 50 manufacturers had been current, together with abroad ones – Artistic_Sprinkles95.

Distributors & Reductions

Be happy to make use of the KBDNEWS low cost code at 185 keyboard retailers worldwide! And don’t hesitate to report any points! 🙂

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

Developments

Continued assaults, continued optimization, plus many different tweaks.

• Freshly cached: change pages, foreign money trade charges for change worth calculations, corridor of fame with my supporters, and so forth.
• Optimizing RSS feeds.
• As well as, all lacking “fast information” hyperlinks have been added to their respective historic situation pages. I needed to write a devoted script for this, procrastinating for a few 12 months.

Kbd.information RSS feed musings

So I do not use RSS, however there are two feeds so that you can observe all of the weblog posts or simply the weekly/fortnightly new points.

After these feeds being in place for about 5 years, I’ve tried out how they appear in a devoted reader for the actual consumer, and realized that there is loads of room for enchancment. 😉

As well as, fairly lots of people (and crawlers) are hitting these xmls, so after rewriting the logic to serve static information as an alternative of phps, I’ve additionally unified the various url variants right into a single new path served immediately: rss.xml and rss_weekly.xml. I’ve arrange redirects of outdated information and outdated redirects (yeah..), they are going to keep for some time, however these are the brand new locations to search for the feeds.

In hindsight, it was the very best resolution to completely revamp the RSS feeds. About 10-25% of all of the site visitors is made up by these two information, which is insane. As a result of most of those hits are fully pointless, coming from varied feed readers repeatedly. If you happen to expertise errors, one purpose for which may be that I’ve banned some infamous feed reader bots due to their borderline malicious frequency of revisits.

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That is all for at present. Thanks for checking by. All in all, it has been one other productive week! As all the time: Continue to learn and constructing!

Till subsequent time,
Tamás

Revealed on Mon twenty ninth Sep 2025. Featured in KBD #199.

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