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Ikki68 Aurora

Spec sheet

Layout: 65%
Case material: Polycarbonate
Mount style: Gasket
Hotswap: yes
Wireless: no
Released: Sep 1, 2021

Polycarbonate 65-percent gasket board from Wuque Studio with a frosted translucent case that diffuses per-key RGB into a soft glow effect. The PC case and gasket mount combine to produce a softer, bouncier typing feel than aluminum boards in the same bracket. An accessible entry into polycarbonate builds for hobbyists who want RGB without a heavy metal chassis.

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Editorial illustration of a 65% keyboard silhouette in translucent polycarbonate, evoking the Ikki68 Aurora's case material.

News

Wuque Studio's summer update, and the Ikki68 Aurora holdover

A July 26 product-update post from Wuque Studio sent buyers back to the Ikki68 Aurora's listing page. Mammoth V2 and Promise V2 remain forum speculation, and no group buy has opened.

thockAug 10, 20267 min read

Line-drawing comparison of five keyboard case silhouettes shrinking left to right — full-size with numpad, tenkeyless, 75%, 65%, and 60% — arranged like a family tree with a bronze accent dot marking the 60% case as the root the other compact sizes branch from.

Deep Dives

How the 60% became the default custom-keyboard layout

Every custom-keyboard buyer's guide since the mid-2010s opens with the same four-term vocabulary — 60%, 65%, 75%, TKL — as though it always existed. It didn't. One open-source PCB out of a geekhack thread is most of the reason that taxonomy exists at all.

thockJul 29, 202611 min read

Cross-section diagram of a keyboard case showing different material layers

Guides

Keyboard case materials, compared: aluminium, polycarbonate, and ABS

The case is the largest resonant body in a keyboard. Aluminium, polycarbonate, and ABS each change the sound, feel, and weight profile in fundamentally different ways — here is what each material actually does.

thockMay 27, 202611 min read

Near-monochrome top-down line silhouette of a 75% keyboard case with a single warm-bronze accent dot at the bottom right standing in for the new R2 accent-weight finish.

News

Mode Sonnet R2 opened at CannonKeys

Mode's second round of its 75% Sonnet board ran at CannonKeys from 2026-06-01 through 2026-07-15 after a vendor-side timeline shift. See the in-article update for the dates and accent-weight color options; the closed entry is archived at /group-buys/past.

thockMay 6, 20265 min read

Guides

Sound dampening, compared: case foam, plate foam, PE foam, and the tape mod

Four layers, four very different jobs. Here is what each sound mod actually changes, where it sits in the build stack, and the order to stack them in if you only have time for one or two.

thockApr 27, 20269 min read

Ikki68 Aurora appears in editor-curated build sheets.

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