Welcome to my personal site, where I share all my works in mechanical keyboards field
Who am I?
I am a Vietnamese young man, who is so interested in mechanical keyboards and can spend whole day working on them. Kiwi is my favorite fruit.
My background is electronics engineering. I used to work as an engineer, a salesman, sometimes a freelancer of software and web design, or a media editor. And I am not a master in any field, honestly.
Regarding mechanical keyboard, most of the time I do PCB designs, sometimes I also make plates and cases (which is inevitable, people would like to purchase a full-kit product, not a single PCB).
I hope you can find something interesting here, and just in case you want to contact me for anything (collaboration, feedbacks, proposing ideas, chit-chat, flirting,…) feel free to contact me: kiwikey.vn@gmail.com (more ways at the end of page).
Some of my products
Kawii9
- A free-to-play 3×3 keypad
- 2 version: Hotswap & Soldering
- RGB Underglow
- QMK & VIA compatible
Status: group-buy round 1 was done (collaboration with CECE Clarie Custom), and (sadly) there will be no future group-buy.
Kiwi4x4
A 4×4 keypad, just like Kawii9, but with 16 keys
- Hotswap PCB
- RGB Underglow & RGB Per-switch
- QMK & VIA compatible
Status: there was no group-buy yet, just for personal use.
Kiwi40
A 40% keyboard PCB
- Soldering PCB
- Multi-layout (with swappable 2.25u & 2.75u spaces)
- RGB Underglow & RGB Per-switch
- QMK & VIA compatible
Status: I have planned for a group-buy but have never started it yet. Some individual kits were sold to people who were interested in.
Kiwi60
A 60% keyboard PCB
- Soldering PCB
- Multi-layout (up to 50 combinations, I have never been brave enough to list them all, what a mess!)
- RGB Underglow & Single-color Backlight
- QMK & VIA compatible
Status: version 3 was done. But there is no group-buy, only individual sales.
Wanderland
An Alice-layout Keyboard PCB
- Soldering PCB
- RGB Underglow & Single-color Backlight
- QMK & VIA compatible
Status: 2 group-buys and several extra sales, under the name of Abasic (collaboration with NUXROS & MechKey.store)
GB Round 1 was on March 2021. Fulfilled on May 2021. For national customers only (Link).
GB Round 2 was on July 2021. Fulfilled on Dec 2021 (Link)
All Abasic sales are now available worldwide! Check out the new colorways, features, pricing and sales schedule on Mechkey.Store
Most successful product so far!
KiwiS75
A 75% keyboard
- Soldering PCB
- Multi-layout available
- RGB Underglow
- QMK & VIA compatible
Status: done and sold.
Sofle RGB
A split ergonomic keyboard. Based on Sofle by Josef Adamčík.
- Hotswap PCB
- RGB Underglow & Per-key
- QMK & VIA compatible
Kiwi65S
A Split 65% keyboard PCB
- Hotswap PCB
- RGB Underglow
- QMK & VIA compatible
Status: development was done, some individual kits was sold to people who are interested in (with a bit of luck).
Kiwi111S
A Split Fullsize PCB. Re-design of SP111
- Soldering PCB
- QMK & VIA compatible
- Multi-layout available:
- Space 2.25u / 2.75u / 3u (on both sides)
- ISO numpad / flipped numpad / keypad 5×4
- ANSI Enter / ISO Enter
- Split Backspace, Right Shift, Left Shift
- With 1.3″ OLED installed
- Different footprints of MCP23017 (QFN or SOIC), to deal with global component shortages
Status: done and sold.
Kyvern
65% keyboard with southpaw numpad. Inspired by Wyvern.
- Soldering PCB
- Multi-layout available
- RGB Underglow
- QMK & VIA compatible
FR4 plate is available, suitable for both “gasket-mount” and “top-mount” style.
Status: done and sold.
Kiwi101
A compact fullsize PCB. Replacement of Austin Keyboard PCB. Fit on Austin R2 and R3 (tested).
- Hotswap PCB
- RGB Underglow
- QMK & VIA compatible
- With flex-cuts (not really works when installed to Austin original plate, however they look cool and that’s enough)
Kiwi1800
Another compact fullsize layout PCB (aka Layout 1800).
- Hotswap PCB
- RGB Underglow
- QMK & VIA compatible
Status: done and sold.
