Interesting Finds & Heads-Ups

Possibly of interest to fans of purple and purple-ish (aka @Deadeye), but Omnitype is having a 50% off flash sale on GMK Tuzi:

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First purchase in months. I’ve been looking forward to this one a while.

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This set looks like it hates Mondays but loves lasagna. :joy:

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Wait these are all UV printed caps? What is the reasoning behind that?

EDIT: Oh! I see these are dirt cheap! For some reason this whole time I thought they were GMK.

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If you’re a fan of cassette futurism, you might want to give these a look:


A new premium cap set just isn’t in my budget at the moment, but I had to share these; I think they’re so cool.


Edit: now also on NovelKeys:

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Those are awesome and remind me a lot of the “less but better” set, similar vibes in my opinion. And just the right price too because I’m not tempted in the slightest.

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More A E S T H E T I C goodness;

As is tradition with Han, it looks like it belongs on the Millennium Falcon; just add some scratches, blaster marks, and oil smears.

Am I gonna buy one? No. Would I appreciate it in a museum? Absolutely; I just wanna keep looking at it.

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Yeah I just saw these on NK and came over to link them if they weren’t already here.

I really like the uniform profile idea and colors, but absolutely despise the font they chose for these. Could it be any narrower?? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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lmao the enter key being some sort of typing game.
(physical monkey type)

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Ah, yeah - I love these designs but haven’t made a purchase yet…New keycaps too - GSA First Pink. They have some really neat keycaps on their site: https://winmix.store/

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Somehow I’d missed that Kbdcraft is doing a Minila Z-row 80%. Is there anybody else doing that layout? Bonus points for split space support on a solder PCB. My next build is likely going to be a Tsangan version of that basic M0110 “60%+Numpad” idea but I don’t know when I will get around to it, and I do love me some arrows.

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Very few, from what I’ve seen. 2U left shift seems to be unpopular, for whatever reason – I guess keycap compatibility? Regardless, it’s my personal pref for 60% layouts, as it lets you squeeze in arrows without putting / someplace weird.

In other news, OmniType assures me that this is a real product: Bauer Lite: Maker's Series – Omnitype®

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Geon quietly updated the Frog Mini. I am stunned. You can get a Geonworks case with daughterboard and o-ring for the basically same price as a Tofu from KBDfans.

This probably happened a while ago as I am out of the loop on a lot of keyboard things, but what a time to be in the hobby. Total abundance of everything!

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Cannonkeys has a bit of a head scratcher sale today. BOGO on some in-stock keyboards. I mean, I would definitely buy an Equinox XL for 1/2 the cost but I don’t want or need 2 of them. I suppose you could go in with a friend and split the cost of 2, but that’s a weird sale. And if they don’t live near you, you’d have to spend $20 to ship it to them.

:thinking:

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That is not how the Bogo works. If you add two different BOGO keyboards to your cart the cheaper one will be free. So you could get a Vector for $700 and a free Balance keyboard instead of paying $515 for it.

I will also note their CLEARANCE section has some banger deals likes 407 and FBASIC keycaps deeply discounted as well as Sagittarius keyboards in their Warehouse Finds section for $270.

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Hmm. I tried that earlier and it only gave me a discount when I had two of the same. Maybe it was bugged.

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Kinetic labs sent out an email that they are releasing a v4 version of their whale polycaps.

In list of what’s new in this version, this grabbed my attention:

  • Made in the USA – Check the card included with your keycaps to see the name of the person who made your keycaps here in New Jersey!

There’s a dye sub keycap maker in New Jersey? That’s interesting, right?

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That’s definitely interesting. I thought SP was it for US keycaps, glad to find out there’s at least one more.

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