Collaborate Disseminate
Artisan keycaps are generally meant to replace your Escape key, though they can be used anywhere you like (as long as they fit, of course). Keycap maker [tellybelly] of jankycaps …read more Continue reading These Keycaps Are 100% Recycled Plastic
Okay, so you built a macropad or even a keyboard. What now? Well, most people use some kind of mouse to go along with it, but no one uses a …read more Continue reading Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Mouse-cropad
While it’s true that keycap colorways abound these days, one can’t always find exactly what one is looking for. And once found, the set is often either prohibitively expensive, or …read more Continue reading Easter’s Over, But You Can Still Dye Keycaps
Well, I didn’t mean to take the whole summer off from Keebin’, it just kind of happened that way. You’d think it would have been #13 that tripped me up, …read more Continue reading Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Hexagonal Keyboard
As with any other community, it takes all kinds to make the keyboard world go ’round. Some like them thicc — more backing for the clacking and all — but …read more Continue reading Thinnest Keyboard Uses Cherry DIY Doubleshot Method
We know this feeling all too well [YOHON!] spent $340 building, lubing, and filming a custom keyboard and it still wasn’t perfect until they got the keycaps sorted. They bought …read more Continue reading Waterslide Decals for Wingding Keycaps
[Alta’s Projects] built a two-in-one cyberdeck that not only contains the requisite Raspberry Pi (a zero in this case) but also eschews a dumb LCD and uses an iPad mini 5 for a display.
We need to address the donor …read more
Continue reading Cyberdeck Running On Apple Silicon, Though An A12 Not An M1
They say experience is the best teacher, and experience tells us they are right. When [Thomas Thiel] couldn’t find any resources about re-creating the groovy ‘caps of thocky old keebs like the Space Cadet and the C64 (or find any …read more
Continue reading Custom Inlaid Retro Keycaps: Clay is the Way
Retrocomputing is as much about physical preservation as it is about electronics and computer science. Plastic is an awful material when it comes to decade-long timescales, and the forces of sun, air and water are unrelenting on these materials. [Drygol] …read more
Continue reading Vacuum Forming Key Cap Covers Doesn’t Quite Work Out
Look at your keyboard. Do the keycaps excite you? That’s what we thought. You pound on that thing day in and day out. Shouldn’t it at least be attractive? Or even happiness-inducing? You don’t necessarily have to replace every single keycap to spark joy. When it comes to artisan keycaps, …read more