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About
MTNU Electronic Control is inspired by the Electronic Control Systems T-03 display terminal, an obscure Australian system designed to control theatrical lighting, circa 1977. Few were made, and even fewer survive to this day. Were it not for a... graphic restoration video that went viral a few years ago, almost no one would know about or remember this system today.



Saturn60 by Ace Keyboard Co.


Petrichor by Alchemist Keyboard


Design Notes
My past sets have been throwback works of monumental excess, with lots of custom legends, and extensive coverage for layouts used by maybe three people globally. SA History of Violets sold in eleven different kits! Not this time. Electronic Control is a minimalist monokit for 2025. What does that mean?

• Child kits? None!
• 40's support? Sorry, afraid not.
• Novelties? In this economy?
• Custom RALs? Only stock colors here!
• Original ECS T-03 legends? Sadly, no.

"Vintage legends? What is this, the time of Charlemagne?!"


This is a very plain, simple adaptation of the ECS T-03 colorway for MTNU. Unless you consider a couple UK keys extravagant (I don't, especially if I want to sell this there) or think a 6u bar is just too much, there's not much more that can be pruned here.


Wait, You're Doing MTNU Again?!
I've previously mocked this up in SA, DSA, DCS, and DSS profiles; running informal interest checks for those versions on the SPKeyboards Discord and others. But I've already designed a lot of sets through SP, and have more still coming up. MTNU is a nut I've yet to crack, and I take it as a challenge.

People think I don't like the profile, but that's not true at all. It does feel tougher to run, for various reasons. But unlike with MTNU Selectresque, where I was pretty attached to its (admittedly weird and pricey) quirks, there's nothing here but a set of nice colors - no thematic necessities beyond that to increase the cost. I'm hoping that makes this a less iffy proposition for vendors and buyers.


Colors and Materials:

GMK PBT doubleshot, in stock XP3 red, X2B grey, and XW1 white.
Potential accent color is XCV yellow.


Vendors:
TBD


Pricing:
TBD, but along the lines of other MTNU monokits in the age of tariffs (so $160ish, probably.)


Dates:
TBD


Kitting:
Minimalist version:

Basic coverage with Tsangan, split bar, Numpad, HHKB support, UK ISO, and the beloved R2 up arrow.

With accents:

See question in the feedback form about including these.


Board Renders:

M1 by Monsgeek


ModelThirteen by Plyktra


U80 by Rama Works (I know, I know)


Maja by Vulcan


Gentleman65 by JKeys Design


Piggy by Jacky Design


Molly by TKC


Iron165 by Smith and Rune (example of potential yellow accent keys)

Summary



FEEDBACK FORM

 

Thanks, folks!

Just a note that while I've minimized the kitting for this to try to (hopefully) make it affordable, I'm not opposed to adding 4-key 40s in if there's demand. Just state that in your IC responses - I'd need proof to show to vendors to justify it.

So in for this!

Updated all of the board renders, now with more varied lighting!

My man Piperaceae, yet another banger! You just don't miss bud! Really love the look of this set too, it's such a simple colorway but hits so hard with the high contrast between the mods & alphas. Then going with MTNU for this is just the cherry on top for me. Will definitely be grabbing a set if this goes to GB! Keep up the awesome work!

Starting to get enough responses to the kitting questions to see trends emerge. Only 25% of respondents so far want 40’s support to be included, while 65% want yellow accents. Of those, 62% want red legends on them.

There appears to be a duplicate R2 1u Esc key (yellow) in the kit. You can remove it since one is enough for all layouts.

Good catch, thanks! Yeah, should just be a single 1u R2 Esc key.

Here's the numbers after one week:

25% of respondents support adding 40's
66.7% of respondents support adding yellow accents

53% of respondents are from the US, 30% from the EU, 13.5% from the UK, and 3% from Canada. I'm looking into ways to reach more potential respondents from other regions.