Behind the scenes #202

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 in addition promising closed-source industrial tasks and even prototypes.

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Black Friday gross sales in all places. Purchase responsively. Most individuals do not want multiple keyboard. Ahem. No, severely.

I am pushing my limits to complete all of the evaluations of the just lately arrived keyboards accumulating on my desk. I hope I can work by means of my backlog till Christmas, after which press the pause button for per week. That is why the 2-3 evaluations per subject just lately.

Chef’s alternative

Some posts price sharing

• Assessment: This nice wi-fi 75% keyboard, the alu+plastic Womier SK71 Professional, is available in cool themes, with fancy lighting, and VIA assist. That magnetic lid within the prime proper nook hides the dongle and on/off swap. Womier positively deserves extra consideration, because the ERA75 was fairly distinctive as properly.

• Bonus overview for avid gamers on a funds: An ultra-affordable 60% HE keyboard, the Dareu COOL60 – good frosted case, matching caps, per-key RGB, wrist strap. As much as 8KHz reporting price and 0.01mm RT decision for avid gamers. Now for simply $42?!

• As well as, I examined this nice keyboard stand designed and despatched to me by Clackify – it is sturdy, useful, and appears superior. I adore it. My desk seems far more subtle now. I might purchase some extra for positive if worldwide delivery plus all the additional charges weren’t so costly (EU).

• The 36ribs is a pleasant unibody offset ortho keyboard with uncovered diodes. Designed by CREATINE0.

• A 100%-ish keyboard with cut up thumb clusters – Mist by Fashionable Hobbyist.

• Charading‘s Shego75HE, an open-source 75% Corridor-effect keyboard, runs QMK. Is that this the primary one doing so?

• Chris Lo launched his loongcat40, a gasket-mounted offset ortho keyboard that includes a pleasant OLED.

• Yuburolls modubu is a semi-staggered 38-key cut up keyboard – made for Korean format. (Semi-staggered which means partly ortho/colum staggered, partly horizontally offset.)

• A Bluetooth diode-free 36-key ergonomic keyboard by Peter Cock: Gamma Omega Hesse – utilizing graph idea. A PCB within the Gamma Omega type issue.

• A Totem-fork by Atila M. Schrieber: Totem Plus 1 – with an additional pinky key.

• ATLAS progress, AsicResistor including trackpoints. Nonetheless WIP, however there is a repo with the PCB already.

• The retro-looking Epomaker RT82 with a daring show aka “TV” positioning. 😀 And it is removable. I imply, keyboards do not want shows, however if you’d like one, that is the best way to go. Most likely.

• offsetkey 70% (GB) at PandaKB. A classically staggered cut up with varied extension modules. Jogs my memory of the UHK. (Not a lot, however the KBDNEWS coupon is price $2 off.)

• Go60 by moergo. Probably not an alternative choice to the Glove80 however a very totally different idea for journey: flat and with touchpad. On Kickstarter. This can be a very quick 7-day Kickstarter marketing campaign. “We’ve blasted by means of nz$200k and the great individuals at Kickstarter gave us the “undertaking we love” batch” – Stephen.

• The Minimi40 (GB) is a lidded, bento-themed keyboard by CannonKeys – designed to be simply as moveable as a lunch field. Lid to be secured to the board with a strap in normal bento vogue.

• Wi-fi Corne ULP with mini trackballs – by kzyz-gluum. These are actual pics, not renders.

• Modulate is a WIP cut up with modules like trackball, encoder, show, and so on. Posted by paper5963.

• Missouri301 is one other 3D-printed keyboard by Rain2, impressed by the classic Micro-Time period Ergo 301.

• This cutie is the f1-8x macropad by Olivious. A resin-printed case for the PCB distributed at a Zion meetup. With gaskets/tadpoles and magnetic attachement. 3D recordsdata right here.

• Two new QMK modules by ohshitgorillas: xcase makes it easy to kind lengthy variable names in snake_case, camelCase or kebab-case by swapping areas with the mandatory delimiter. And SpongeMock – randOmly capItalIZiNg lETTERs like In tHE sPoNgeBOb MoCkINg MemE.

• KEEB-DAC (prototype) is an audio interface/DAC/USB HUB to your keyboard.

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Meetup database

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

Lately added

Missed 🙂

Be at liberty to make use of the KBDNEWS low cost code at 187 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:

• PandaKB supplied you a $2 low cost for the Offsetkey (coupon code: KBDNEWS).

Developments

The Cloudflare outage affected the location on Nov 18, and probably the most annoying factor was that I could not log into CF both to easily flip it off quickly. Aaargh.

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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

Printed on Wed twenty sixth Nov 2025. Featured in KBD #202.

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