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Aug 2026 | 12 posts
My Firs Keycaps with Symbols
Finally got my first set of keycaps with letters! These low-profile keys look perfect for customizing my keyboard setup.
First Self-Designed Keycaps and Symbols
These are more keycaps from my very first set that I designed and printed myself. Some of the symbols are a little wonky, and a few were too thin to print cleanly.
My First Printed Keycaps Are Here
Completing my first batch of keycaps designed and printed entirely by myself on the Bambu Lab A1.
Modular Input Device on Wood
Comparing the thickness of the low profile portajohn2 to the portajohn1

New-caps-for-porta-john

Today I dropped some new caps in the porta-john. I need to do a bunch of posts on zmk and my journey building the porta-john, I’ve been rocking it for at least two weeks now pretty solid and I am absolutely loving it. More on that later. KLP-Lame-Keycaps # The model of the caps are KLP-Lame by braindefender, they are super rounded and smooth. They look really good on camera and feel good to the finders. I printed these at home on my ender3 s1 pro with a black and purple silk filliment. I printed all 42 at once using a Printing 42 keys at once technique. They do have just a bit of a rough texture that you can feel on your figertips. I printed these on super quality.12mm layer height, while my last set was printed on draft quality.32mm layer height. They look crazy different in print quality with the lines of the new caps barely showing, the feel isn’t nearly as drastic. The Result # Check out the final shots as I set up the porta-john with these sweet caps. And here they are all set up.…

Printing 42 keys at once

I’m working on creating some gcode to create a whole set of key caps in one print, it is getting tedious to print them one at a time, and my past experience with my printer proves that printing a bunch of separate pieces increases the chances of failure. I don’t want to end up with 42 keys that are half done and a ball of filament. figuring out the coordinates # To figure out the coordinates I printed one key cap, and manually jogged the printer in position to knock off the cap, then sweep it out of the way. gcode # I opened the gcode split it into start.gcode, end.gcode, and part.gcode. start.gcode # end.gcode #. part.gcode # Now part.gcode is the rest of the gcode, and is 22k lines long, I’ll spare putting that in this post. Writing the knock and sweep # Now that I have the coordinates, and my gcode split up, I am going to write the code for the knock and sweep by hand, and just add this to the end of part.gcode. A python script to make multiples # Now I wrote this python script to g…
The Portajohn Monoblock Keyboard Design
Check out the Portajohn! This custom 42-key monoblock was my first full keyboard build, designed to plop on a laptop, while still exposing the trackpad and able to flip over and toss in a backpack.
Laying some wire in PortaJohn 1
Close-up view of a barebones custom mechanical keyboard plate and PCB.
Laying down the first test print of a portajohn on a laptop
A setup featuring an open laptop running Ubuntu next to a detached, custom mechanical keyboard.
Alternatives · joric/nrfmicro Wiki github.com
Alternatives A Pro Micro alternative for wireless keyboards. Contribute to joric/nrfmicro development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com Huge list of micro controllers tried and used in keeb builds.
Found: OverlayKey X – Thomas Baart’s Microblog micro.thomasbaart.nl
Found: OverlayKey X Designed by @yfuku_, a keyboard to place on top of your laptop. Thomas Baart's Microblog · micro.thomasbaart.nl This is almost exactly what I have been thinking about building for quite awhile. I am going to give it a good try with a few $$ in filiment some cheap switches a microcontroller and go pretty bare bones, maybe open wiring on the bottom.
qmk_firmware/docs/features/programmable_button.md at master · … github.com
Interesting, linux supports 32 programmable buttons, special buttons that do nothing that hotkey programs like xbindkeys can pick up and run things, seems like it would be very intersting to use on a macro pad. You could easily do dynamic and complex tasks without clashing that keybinding with something else. I’m going to look into this for my next obs setup. No matter what I try to do with the hyper key it always tends to do odd things depending on the application I am in. typically its tmux, and it starts trying to do something I don’t want it to.
Keebmaker Corne on Leather Palm Rest
This leather-topped palm rest was the final home for my keebmaker Corne, perfectly positioning the mouse right in the middle for optimal ergonomics.
New Black Corne with purple glow
These kaihl browns, loving them. This is going to be a trip to get used to, I thought typing on a column stagger layout would be hard to get used to, nope, its the symbols, that 4th layer is hard to get rid of.

My experience with a new 3dkeeb corne

specs # first days typing # first days working # What did I sign myself up for? If the lower typing speed with alpha characters was not enough throw in special characters and keybings I setup long ago and only remember by muscle memory. I have so far killed my tmux pane instead of zooming in (m-x instead of m-z), killed my zsh line instead of paste to the end of a command (c-c instead of c-v). VIA # setting up qmk cli # inspiration #
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