Introducing Riser, our tenting accessory designed to elevate your keyboard experience. Riser enables adjustable tenting at precise 5-degree increments, ranging from 10 to 60 degrees, ensuring the perfect angle for your comfort. Riser only works with a wooden or rubber UHK palm rest, and it's compatible with both the UHK 60 v1 and UHK 60 v2. Its robust construction features an all-metal design, weighing 620 grams. The powder-coated steel plates are equipped with rubber feet, preventing any desk slippage and ensuring stability. Riser is designed for effective usage, allowing you to swiftly open ..read more

Occasionally, we receive requests for a less expensive shipping method than DHL, particularly for smaller items. The suggestion often is to simply place these parts in an envelope for more cost-effective postage. Unfortunately, the solution isn't that straightforward. We are committed to our customers' satisfaction and have thoroughly investigated alternative shipping solutions. To ensure full transparency, I'd like to share our findings with you. We've sought quotes from other delivery services, including UPS and FedEx. However, DHL's offer remains the most competitive, and their service has ..read more

Hi there, This month's newsletter is a short one: We're curious about the experience of UHK module owners to make future modules better. If you have a module, please fill out the survey. Meanwhile, high above the clouds: POV building a domain name marketplace from 38,000ft#buildinpublic @dwarfdomains https://t.co/FCjkZn6K3T pic.twitter.com/LMQsGLTrXt — Charlie Coppinger (@TheCoppinger) September 26, 2023 Artisans never disappoint with their stunning keycaps: Back from holiday & recharged ? Today I’ve been busy preparing to launch @dwarfdomains on Indie Hackers, Hacker News etc. As a ni ..read more

TL;DR: Update to the newest Agent and set the backlighting of keys to your heart's desire! The UHK 60 v2 has been supporting functional backlighting from the get-go, which is loosely speaking per-key backlighting, but functional backlighting colors are tied to the configuration of keys, so it hasn't been possible to set colors independently of key mappings until now. Let's see how to use Agent's new and shiny (pun clearly intended) per-key backlighting feature. First, update to the newest Agent and let it update your firmware. Next up, navigate to the new "LED settings" page. In the "Function ..read more

Hi there, This is a short update to let you know that new orders ship in a week. If you ever wanted to buy your UHK but were afraid of the historically long shipping delays, fear no more as we finally have stock. And if you got your UHK, tweet about it, or it didn’t happen! We’re always delighted to hear about Ultimate Hackers as they receive their orders. Wanted to come back after using it for a few months and say that the @UltHackKeyboard kicks absolute ass. My back and RSI aches and pains have been way better, often nonexistent, and it makes editing in particular go so much faster never ha ..read more

TL;DR: We've just released the UHK 60 v1 backlight upgrade kit, containing keycaps, LEDs, and a keycap puller. Soldering is needed to install the LEDs. Ages ago, we promised to release the backlight upgrade kit for the UHK 60 v1. In the meantime, we've been busy releasing the modules, the UHK 60 v2, and catching up with production amid Covid and the chip shortage. But now that we've caught up, it's time to release the kit, so let's discuss the details. On the bright side, pun clearly intended, the sides of the keycaps are also lit, not just their top side. As a matter of fact, the backlightin ..read more

Hallo, hallå, and hei! We're excited to introduce new PBT keycaps, including: German, Nordic, Plain ANSI and ISO (just like the Blank option, but without the dots), OS keycaps include two Cmd, Opt, and Windows keycaps to make you feel more at home if you're a Mac or Windows user. Let me emphasize that these are not cheap ABS but durable PBT keycaps. PBT keycaps featuring non-English symbols are rare, and we've paid dearly for their tooling to bring them to life. These keycaps are backlit-friendly, the same type that the UHK 60 v2 has. The legends are easy to read even when they’re not backli ..read more

Let's say you want to map Ctrl+C to Shift+1. First up, add the Shift layer to your keymap: On the Shift layer, map the 1 key to Ctrl+C: The modifier layer (in this example, the Shift layer) automatically becomes active when you press the relevant modifier key. If a key on the modifier layer is unmapped, the UHK will fall back to the base layer and compose its mapping with the modifier. You're probably already done, but there's one more thing. By default, modifier layers can be activated by both left and right modifiers. If you want to use only the left or right modifier to activate a modifie ..read more

Some of you want your UHK to automatically turn off its LEDs after some idle time, which can be configured by setting the leds.fadeTimeout smart macro variable in the $onInit macro as follows. You can learn more about smart macros. We realize that this setting is not as accessible as it should be, and we'll make it easier to adjust it in later Agent versions ..read more

Hi there, and welcome to this short and slightly late monthly UHK update! We've created a survey that you're welcome to fill out regardless of whether you have a UHK. You can directly affect the development of the UHK and the creation of new models this way. Speaking of manufacturing progress, we've almost caught up, as the oldest pending order is about a week old. Unfortunately, we're out of palm rests again, but luckily, we'll get a new palm rest batch about two weeks later, and we'll fully catch up with orders then. Consequently, we expect new orders to ship in about three weeks. We'll ..read more