stickykeys

slab

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

placeholder copy. the slab case is cut from a single billet, so the plate sits flush with the top edge and there is nothing on the outside to undo — the whole board opens from underneath.

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wedge

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

placeholder copy. the angle is milled into the case rather than added with feet, which costs a lot of aluminium and means the wedge can only be cut one way up.

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sprig

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

placeholder copy. thirty keys was an experiment in how little we could get away with. it lives on the bench as a macro pad and has never left the shop.

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the first batch is out

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

placeholder post. thirty slabs went out this month, which is the largest run we’ve done and the first time the shop has felt like a production line rather than a bench.

the only casualty was an M2 tap that sheared in the twenty-eighth case. the case survived, the tap did not, and there is now a spare in the drawer.

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home row mods, two weeks in

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

placeholder post. every board now ships with home row mods on the default layer, and the only thing that took tuning was the timing.

these are the values we settled on:

 
 config.hc
 
#define TAPPING_TERM 180
#define PERMISSIVE_HOLD
#define QUICK_TAP_TERM 0

QUICK_TAP_TERM 0 is the one that mattered — without it, rolling from a home row mod into the next key repeated the modifier instead of typing the letter.

why we keep using brass plates

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

placeholder post. brass is three times the price of aluminium for a plate, adds about 180g to a 60%, and tarnishes if you look at it wrong.

we keep using it because it flexes less than aluminium at the same thickness and because the sound is duller — less of the high ring that a thin alloy plate adds to every keypress.

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