keyboards.md

Keyboards

I love keyboards. Specifically I love remapping them with Karabiner to extend them to do more awesome things for me.

I am currently using builtin MacBook keyboard and love it. I love the low key travel as I get tired typing on most mechanical keyboards.

Interesting keyboards

• Electronic Materials Office (HN)
• K3
• Helix Kit - Helix Split Ortho Keyboard Kit. (Tweet)
• GergoPlex - Ultra-Minimal Mechanical Split Keyboard. (Review)
• Keychron K7 - Ultra-Slim 65% Wireless Mechanical Keyboard:q.
• Keyboardio
• 42 - Custom keyboard built by Angelo.
• Preonic - Beautiful keyboard.
• Preonic Light - IMO better than Preonic. Would be even nicer with Kailh switches & it being wireless.
• Dactyl Keyboard - Parameterized ergonomic keyboard.
• Corne keyboard - Split keyboard with 3x6 column staggered keys and 3 thumb keys. (Reddit)
• Redox - Ergonomic split mechanical keyboard.
• Helix - Compact split ortholinear keyboard. (Article)
• Lily58 - 6×4+4keys column-staggered split keyboard.
• Keyberon - Hand wired ortholinear mechanical keyboard with a firmware in rust.
• Sonder - E-Ink Keyboard. (HN)
• Dactyl-ManuForm - Fork of the Dactyl, a parameterized, split-hand, concave, columnar, ergonomic keyboard. (HN)
• Absolem (Code)
• jklp - 36-key ergonomic keyboard.
• Moonlander - Next-generation ergonomic keyboard. (HN)
• Keychron K3 - Hot-Swappable Low Profile Optical Wireless Mechanical Keyboard.
• Keychron K6 (Tweet)
• Custom keyboard (Specs)
• Ergonomic Ultimate Hacking Keyboard 60 (HN)
• Keyboardio Atreus (Keyboardio Atreus: yeah or meh? (review))
• duckyPad - Do-It-All Mechanical Macropad.
• Lalboard - 3D-printed keyboard inspired by the DataHand. (HN)
• Squeezebox Keyboard (HN)
• MVKB Keyboards
• IIICC - Three piece split keyboard with macropad running QMK.
• ZSA Planck EZ - Powerful, Backlit, Open-Source, 40% Mechanical Keyboard. (HN)
• Pheromone - 63-key keyboard supports slide potentiometer, rotary encoder and oled screen.
• KeySeeBee - Split ergo keyboard.
• X-Bows with Gateron optical switches
• Djinn - 64-key split keyboard. (HN)
• Work Louder - Modular keyboards for digital creators.
• MiRage Modular Keyboard
• Expandable keyboard with up to 120 keys
• samoklava - Autogenerated split 36 key keyboard.
• rae-dux - Generated keyboard.
• Cantor Keyboard - 42 key diodeless split keyboard.
• Ferris - Low profile split keyboard designed to satisfy one single use case elegantly.
• ErgodoxE EZ - Ergonomic keyboard with open source firmware. (HN)
• Dilemma - Vertical stagger low-profile keyboard with mods.

Interesting keycaps

• Kailh Low Profile Keycaps - Blank - Low key & awesome.
• Kailh BOX Switches - Brown seem nice.

Notes

• Gateron Browns low key travel mech switches maybe are nice. Need something low key travel ala macbook.
• Fewer keys placed correctly on the keyboard is best.

Links

• Keyboard PCB Guide
• Cookes and cream Ergodox - Neat setup.
• Multi-purpose keys, and a case for small keyboards
• clojure.core/typing - Matt Adereth - Modeling and 3D printing a keyboard.
• Building Keyboards
• What keyboards do you use? Do you program them?
• Quick and dirty guide to flashing your Planck Light bootloader
• Planck Light review
• A Modern Space Cadet
• Keebio - Mechanical Keyboard Parts and Other Goodies.
• kbd-audio - Tools for capturing and analysing keyboard input paired with microphone capture.
• Keymap & EN/RU layouts for Levinson 40% split ortholinear keyboard
• KeyHive - Personalize Your Keyboard.
• My Corne keyboard (crkbd-classic) - Split, column staggered with 3-thumb keys
• Awesome Split Keyboards (HN)
• Making My Own USB Keyboard From Scratch (2019) (HN)
• KMonad - Advanced keyboard manager.
• How to make your C codebase rusty: rewriting keyboard firmware keymap in Rust (2019) (HN)
• HN: If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead (2019)
• KeyV2 - Parametric Mechanical Keycap Library.
• ckb-next - RGB Driver for Linux and macOS.
• Weird Keyboards, Programmable Keyboards (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)
• Guidelines for designing a custom Topre keyboard
• A New, Experimental User Interface (HN)
• Keyboard recommendations (2020)
• Simple app to make any keyboard bluetooth enabled
• KeyToKey - Rust keyboard firmware library.
• Mech Guide - Проводник в мир механических клавиатур. (Code)
• An unusual keyboard key switch (HN)
• Mugur - High-level Lisp configurator for the ErgoDox EZ keyboard. (HN)
• Measuring keyboard-to-photon latency with a light sensor (2020) (HN) (Lobsters)
• Workman Keyboard Layout - Layout Designed with Hands in Mind. (HN)
• Keyboard Switches You've Never Heard of (2020)
• Resources for building a keyboard from scratch (2020)
• ZMK Firmware - Modern, open source keyboard firmware. (Docs)
• Keyboard University - The first and last resource you’ll ever need for mechanical keyboards.
• Collection of nice keyboard + photos
• Remap Enter to Control in GNU/Linux (2020 Edition) (Lobsters)
• Keyboardio Atreus Review (2020) (Lobsters)
• Mechanical Keyboard Build : 5° Acrylic Case + DZ60 PCB (2018)
• Split Mechanical Keyboard Build Log (2020) (Lobsters)
• Model H: IBM Keyboard USB Conversion (2020)
• I made a mechanical keyboard with 3d-printed switches (2020)
• Механические клавиатуры ресурсы
• Toward a more useful keyboard
• Art of Chording - Teach yourself stenography for free. Use steno with Plover to type faster and more ergonomically than on a keyboard. (HN)
• KBDfans - Mechanical Keyboards Store.
• Vim-like Layer for Xorg and Wayland (2020) (HN)
• Nerves-keyboard - Running a mechanical keyboard with Elixir (2020)
• Mechanical Keyboard and where to find them
• Planck Keyboard Layout Iterations
• 4x4 Macro Pad (2020) (HN) (Lobsters)
• Down the ergonomic keyboard rabbit hole (2020) (HN) (Lobsters)
• Monkey Type - Minimalistic typing test. (Code)
• Type Fu - App that will teach you how to type fast. The right way.
• Keyboard Simulator - Design and test virtual keyboards. (Code)
• Kaleidoscope - Flexible firmware for Arduino-powered keyboards.
• Pimp My Microwave - Installing a RGB mechanical keypad on my microwave. (HN)
• Guide to Building a Let's Split Keyboard
• Keebfol.io - Curated list of Open Source Mechanical Keyboard resources. (Code)
• Interception Tools - Minimal composable infrastructure on top of libudev and libevdev. (Tweet)
• Coolest custom mechanical keyboards (2020)
• KeyCombiner - Organize, learn, and practice keyboard shortcuts.
• OpenRGB - Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc. (HN)
• Hawck - Key-rebinding daemon for Linux (Wayland/X11/Console).
• The Quietest Mechanical Keyboard (2021) (Lobsters)
• Keyboard Layout Editor - Web application that enables the editing of keyboard-layouts. (Code)
• Hyper and Super on my keyboard? (2019)
• Split Keyboards Gallery
• Turning a wireless keyboard into a wired keyboard (2021)
• How to Delay RSI, by Building a Keyboard (2019)
• Lobsters: What keyboard do you use? (2021)
• So how does a PS/2 keyboard interface work? (2021)
• UseTheKeyboard - Collection of keyboard shortcuts for Mac apps, Windows programs, and websites. (Code)
• Ask HN: What's your keyboard and what you love and hate about it? (2021)
• Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards (2021) (HN)
• How does a USB keyboard work? (2021) (HN)
• Nice Keyboard Recs (2021)
• evremap - Keyboard input remapper for Linux/Wayland systems.
• Keebhunter - Find your perfect keyboard. (Code)
• Typing Practice
• keyd - Key remapping daemon for linux.
• Going mouseless (HN)
• Keyboard Legend - Learn how to build your own mechanical keyboard.
• Chordie - Chording keyboard you shouldn't be scared of.
• A different kind of keyboard (2021) (Lobsters) (HN)
• Keycap Playground - Parametric OpenSCAD keycap generator made for generating keycaps of all shapes and sizes (and profiles). (Video)
• Why Are Topre Keyboards So Expensive? (HN)
• Ortholinear flat keyboards
• Column Modules for Mechanical Keyboards - The next step for Configure-It-Yourself keyboards
• Tisha Talks Switches
• How do you use layers on your keyboard? (2021)
• Keyboards and Open-Source (2022) (HN)
• clavier - Measure edit distance based on keyboard layout.
• Ask HN: What are some good keyboards? (2022)
• Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole (2022) (HN)
• Ergogen - Keyboard generator that aims to provide a common configuration format to describe ergonomic 2D layouts, and generate automatic plates, cases, and (un-routed) PCBs for them. (Code)
• MVKB • Synth
• Building my first mechanical keyboard (2022) (HN)
• Using custom macropad with a keyboard for font designs
• Keyboard Awesome
• I built a keyboard PCB and wrote firmware for it in Rust (2022)
• Simple Keyboard - JavaScript Virtual Keyboard - Customizable, responsive and lightweight.
• Programming On 34 Keys (Lobsters)
• The best mechanical keyboards of 2022