It took little more than a year from concept to production but MTNU is finally out! All sets have been shipped to vendors and a few lucky EU customers already got their copy! It’s time to review what we’ve done so far and see what is left to do for the near future. Let’s start with the first real-life not-rendered not-studo-shot pictures: The good I’ve been typing on MTNU since a few days now and I’m glad to report that my experience has been absolutely delightful. I’ve never actually typed on a full MTNU set until last Wednesday. All I had was prototypes and 3D printed caps for the missing ke ..read more

It took over 2 years but SA Retro is finally back on PMK! The DSA version of Retro was my first ever designed keycap set and I bring it in my heart. It was clearly inspired by the Commodore64 (with the added burgundy accent) and it didn’t took long before we released an SA variant of the same colorway. Signature Plastics was promising a re-run since forever and it’s finally here together with full PETSCII alphas! Go get it while it’s hot because it won’t last long and it will take another two years to have more :D ..read more

Unfortunately I still don’t have a full set but I wanted to show you guys live what MTNU is about before the end of the pre-orders. Today June 21 at 17:00/5pm CET I’ll be streaming on YouTube the definite guide to MTNU and answer all your questions. The stream will then be available for everyone to replay here: We’ll talk about ergonomics, sound, materials and I’ll show you all the keycaps that have been manufactured so far. The preorders end in just a week so if you haven’t already reserved your copy hurry up! Vendors per region are: Asia – iLumKB Canada – DeskHero China –&nb ..read more

SOD is the original typeface designed specifically for MTNU. The idea was to revisit old IBM and RadioShack keyboards font under a modern light. The defining characteristics are an off-center mid line (that you can see on letters like E, F, H) and the use of “retro” numbers. The font is released under a permissive open license to make it easy to anyone to add custom legends or modify what is already available. It is important to understand that the font is made for injection molding and not for writing. The font is offered mainly as a collection of glyphs for ease of distribution but it’s not ..read more

Ohboy! It has been a long journey… The official announcement of my collaboration with GMK is dated 2022 May 25. Almost precisely one year later MTNU finally goes into pre-order phase, but the work for me (and GMK) is far from over! I’ll spare you scrolling to the bottom for the vendor pages. You can pre-order your MTNU set right now at: Asia – iLumKB Canada – DeskHero China – Matrix Labs Europe – Oblotzky industries Oceania – DailyClack United Kingdom – proto[Typist] United States – NovelKeys The cost for a base kit is roughly €100 / $100 but it’s a special ..read more

It took some time but the forth revision of /dev/tty is finally available and ready to ship at Drop! Apart from minor changes to the base kit (yeah there’s an uwu key) and “Lost+Found”, the most important update is for the 40%/ortho keyboards. I believe the 40s kit is one of the most complete around so if you like typing on those little things you better hurry up white it’s hot! Here below the list of all kits. /dev/tty3 page at Drop ..read more

I’m not a huge fan of making keyboard reviews but when a company named DrunkDeer contacted me with a “new” hall effect switch I had to know more about it. I warned them that my reviews are brutal and they agreed on sending me a sample anyway, so kudos to them. Not sure they will be equally happy after reading this review… Here below you find my video review with the usual disclaimer: I’m not a youtuber, I don’t make any money from my videos, they are just for fun (hence the low-key production). Sometimes companies ask me to review their products and if the item looks interesting I’m happy to t ..read more

A few weeks ago it came to my attention a new project by Kono involving the Whitefox. I need to put the record straight here once and for all: I am NOT involved in any way with the new Whitefox Eclipse. I wasn’t part of its development, not even in a consulting position. The Whitefox Eclipse it’s a 100% Kono/AlpacaKeyboards project. They contacted me a while back saying they were working on it and I have absolutely no problem for them to use the legacy Whitefox “brand”. So best of luck to them, but –again– it’s not a product I worked on or endorsed. So a little bit of history for the new comer ..read more

In my last update I anticipated a long and difficult journey for PBS. Well, things took an unexpected turn and production will start sooner rather than later. If you don’t know already PBS (Penguin Belly Slide) is my tribute to uniform low-profile keycaps. Think of it as DSA done right, because DSA is boring and PBS is all but! Everything started a cold dark night of about a year ago. The kind guys from KBM contacted me right away when I prematurely announced MTNU. At the time I was already talking with GMK (what’s wrong with acronyms in the keyboard community btw?!) so things didn’t pan out b ..read more

It has been a pretty hectic year and as always I’ve dip my toe in way too many waters. I don’t blame you if you lost count, I did too, so as a sort of note-to-self let’s review past, current and future projects with their status update. Let’s start from the bad news. Retro SA Retro & MT3 Retro are still on hold. Signature Plastics sent me a picture of SA Retro keycaps laying around in their warehouse a while back. Most of the kits are done but SP doesn’t seem motivated in completing the set. At this stage I don’t know when or if they will be completed, we can only mourn this monument to th ..read more