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This guide won’t touch generic print calibration or any other print settings, you can follow my guide on best calibration settings order as you need a perfectly tuned printer to be able to print such small and precise things, especially with a larger size nozzle (mine is .6mm, i bet some keycaps can be printed on .8mm with a few more tweaks). Context I’ve had my corne v4 keyboard for more than a year now, and i’ve bought it with no keycaps or keys since i had a 3d printer laying around and a spare set of keys. So i’ve printed a set, but since time was running low i stuck with a thicker keycap (nothing bad, even thockier if you prefer that), but recently i’ve found this reddit post and tought “damn, i could use some new ergo keycaps since mine are flat and jump off the keyboard if i strike them too hard” (really, for future reference, pla keycaps don’t wear on surface but the stem part becomes incredibly loose overtime, especially if you remove them somewhat frequently to fix them). ...

I lied to you That’s not my first test run, I’ve installe neovim in 2024 and got discouraged by the setup and by the fact that the basic movements (even hjkl) were completely foreign to my hands (addin 2 new layers of stuff on top of the most basic thing ever, typing, seemed somewhat useless and pretty discouraging since I could feel the friction between toughts and my hands executing actions). Then I started digging on ergo/split keyboards and typing hand placement and got deep into that rabbit hole. ...

That’s true You’re probably a programmer, or some kind of tech enthusiast and since 2016 when android introduced dark mode to the world you were hooked. Or if you’re younger you probably got bullied into dark mode by your edgy cool friend that said that light mode is for boomers. Well either way, I was all of those above for some time, but the need of working of computer for 8+ hours a day (both for uni, work and personal projects). ...

The problem Most of the shortcuts made in vim are actually made for the English language. And transferring them to a foreign keyboard makes them, well, kind of dumb (my take anyway). If you’ve ever tried to write code on an Italian keyboard, you know the pain. Want a backslash? That’s AltGr + ù. Curly braces? AltGr + Shift combinations. And the forward slash, which you use constantly in vim for searching, is hiding on Shift + 7. Every single day I was reaching for modifier keys just to type basic programming symbols. ...

In this post we’ll touch upon the order suggested for calibrating your printer (my take anyway). This way, you should have beautiful prints without any defects and possibly with the best aesthetic you can achieve. This will cost you about half of a kilo of filament. Some calibrations don’t need to be redone for different filaments, but my guess would be that you need an additional 100/200g for every filament you want to tune. ...