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Keyboards so good your fingers will be begging to tickle these keys.

Tickle My Keys is a custom keyboard shop that makes custom keyboards. For your needs, we specialize in building portable ergomechanical keyboards you can toss in a backpack and plop on your laptop. They are built to last.

The Porta-John

Our flagship keyboard is the Porta-John. It is a portable keyboard that you can toss in a backpack and plop on your laptop.

The Porta John plopped on a laptop.

Pricing

TMK keyboards are completely custom built, the pricing below is a guideline to help you get started. Once the process is started we will provide you with an estimate. A $100 deposit is required before any engineering, printing, or build begins. Got a crazy idea? Pitch it to us! We'll drop you a quote

42 keys 3x6

$400

40% keyboard

66 keys 5x6

$450

60% keyboard

KeyWells/Tenting

+$50

Keywells give your fingers a place to drop into. Tenting relaxes your wrists and angles the keys so the inside keys are higher than the outside.

split

+$15

Two separate keyboard halfs, giving your shoulders a chance to spread eagle.

oled

+$15/screen

oled displays

hotswap

+$15

Hotswap sockets bring the convinience of hot swapping your keycaps at the cost of some height.

wired only

-$15

Don't care much for bluetooth? Save some dough and we'll keep the batteries.

Fully Customizable Keymap

priceless

We will get you started with a keymap that you can make all your own, no coding required. Our keyboards are designed for use with zmk, so you can: edit your keymap in the browser, download your new firmware, and flash it in a matter of minutes.

When you are ready to order drop us an email at [email protected] Tell us what you want to do with the board. Are you traveling with it, plopping it on a laptop, or throwing it in a backpack? How wide are you looking to make it? Do you want integrated wrist rests? Are want an integrated macropad or knobs pitch it.

Want something a little more standard like Corne, Lily58, or Nijuni? Hit up 1337keyboards. They've got some excellent boards with sick walnut plates.