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 2020 MacBook keyboard and love it. I love the low key travel as I get tired typing on most mechanical keyboards.

Interesting keyboards

• ​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)

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)​

• ​Nice Keyboard Recs (2021)​

• ​evremap - Keyboard input remapper for Linux/Wayland systems.

• ​Keebhunter - Find your perfect keyboard. (Code)

• ​Typing Practice​