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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.

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

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 – Matrix Labs
• Europe – Oblotzky industries
• Oceania – DailyClack
• United Kingdom – proto[Typist]
• United States – NovelKeys

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.

It took ages but I was able to convince Drop to salvage the Jiji’s keycaps that otherwise would have gone destroyed. They kindly agreed at using them for charity, so yeah, I understand that $29 is steep for 4 keycaps, but you are doing it for a good cause so if you can, please consider joining our “Adopt a Shelter Cat Month” campaign. You are helping shelter cats and receiving a nice set of 4 cute Jiji’s keycaps too.

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!

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.

An update about the MTNU profile was long overdue. Let me start by stating the obvious: it is taking more than expected… but less than I feared. I have a little experience in manufacturing by now and a couple of weeks late is really nothing. Let’s do a recap.

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…

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.