No. 02 · Business · 2021–25
Aozora 69
The Aozora 69 came in five colourways with a brass or aluminum plate and badge. This issue is a showroom: pick a case, a plate, a badge and a keycap set, and see it built.
- Layout
- 69 keys, 65%
- Body
- Milled 6061 aluminum
- Mount
- Sandwich
The Aozora 69 was SalmonCat’s only product: a 69-key aluminum keyboard kit, named for the blue sky, 青空. Every one came in one of five colourways, with a plate and a cloud badge in brass or aluminum.
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The case, plate and badge are the production CAD files, and the plate is the one the board was built around, so it shows through the keys and as the stripe along each side of the sandwich. Explode the board to see its layers, with the PCB from the KiCad layout in the PCB issue. The three keycap sets are mine, chosen for this page; the kit shipped without keycaps.
What came in the box
Every Aozora 69 was one of five colourways, Hakushi, Fukai, Sumi, Sakura or Aizome, with a plate and a cloud badge in brass or aluminum. Its own issue has a showroom where you can build one in any combination, including the polycarbonate and carbon-fibre plates.
Aozora 69
- Layout
- 69 keys, 65%-style
- Typing angle
- 6°
- Mount
- Sandwich mount
- Body
- Milled 6061 aluminum, top and bottom
- PCB
- Custom ANSI hotswap, VIA support
- Stabilisers
- PCB-mounted
- Plate
- Brass or aluminum; polycarbonate and carbon fibre as extras
- Badge
- Cloud, in brass or aluminum, or none
The base kit was the two aluminum case halves, the hotswap PCB, a plate and a badge in the buyer’s choice of brass or aluminum, and the screws. Switches and keycaps were the buyer’s to choose, and the customer photos on Imgur show what they chose.