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Side-section line drawing of a keyboard case with the plate resting on cantilevered metal tabs reaching in from the case walls, drawn in a 2px warm-grey stroke on warm paper; the right-hand tab is deflected downward under a keypress, with a single muted-terracotta splash at the flex point where the tab bends and a small warm-bronze dot in the upper margin.

Leaf-spring mounts, explained: what a bending metal tab does that a foam strip cannot

The Nyawice's spec line and Mode's plate-tab mounting blocks both lean on one old idea — let a thin tab bend instead of a foam strip squash. The physics is textbook; the keyboard implementations are not, and the name covers more than one mechanism.

thockAug 4, 202610 min read

Top-down line silhouette of a TKL keyboard case rendered in a 2px warm-grey stroke on a transparent 1200x750 canvas, with a coral splash marking three stacked mount-point brackets along the case's lower edge and a thin warm-bronze highlight along the top-right corner.

News

The Blaine V2: SE puts three mount systems in one kit and asks the buyer to pick

CannonKeys's F12 TKL follow-up ships with top mount, single-sided gasket, and o-ring hardware in the same box, plus a carbon-fiber bottom plate and a POM underside element it calls Volcano. The mount menu is the story.

thockJul 10, 20267 min read

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Choosing your first custom keyboard kit: a buyer's guide

Most first custom keyboards aren't built from loose parts and aren't bought finished — they're a barebones kit, a case-plate-PCB bundle that leaves the rest of the decision to the buyer. Here's how to make that decision without guessing.

thockJun 27, 20268 min read

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