Behind the Scenes of Issue 35 Issue 34 follow-up, latest progress, PCB design, forgotten podcast appearance, MK Dry July, venturing into mechanical typewriter territory, updated todo list.
KBD.news Published July 19, 2021
Summary
This week I've done mostly PCB design and written a lot. Not much progress with other stuff on my todo list though. I got quite a lot of new subscribers and we had a good week in general regarding useful keyboard projects and tips.
Issue 34 follow-up
I don't want to regularly spam all the keyboard related communities with my weekly posts but this time I crossposted the r/mk one on r/olkb and r/ergomechkeyboards as well.
As a result, the number of subscribers increased by…
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Published on Mon 19th Jul 2021. Featured in KBD #35 (source ).
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