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Issue 102 / Week 45 / 2022

This is a hand-picked selection of last week's content from a keyboard enthusiast's perspective. Posts that may teach you something, make you think and contribute to the common knowledge of the DIY builder community.

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There are 14 entries in this issue:

Editorial

  • Anniversary giveaway, Key Comp in the mailbox, new vendors, discounts, meetups.
Projects
  • Evgenii Vilkov's Pica40 v2 is a wired/wireless split with splay and XIAO MCUs. (source)
  • Remnant is a 58-key split, concave 3D keyboard announced by ergohaven's atlantesque. Hotswap, per key RGB, and prebuilt. (source)
  • Feather 40 by Mangokitty27. A 40% Alice board with KiCad files. (source)
  • Batreeq: A 30-key pseudosplit keyboard by AlSaMoMo – with a trackball and scroll ring. (source)
  • Synthetic00 has introduced Borne, this cute wireless split which is low profile and open-source. (source)
  • Gneiss01 is an interesting keyboard project by LeverMind2112 – involving clay, 3D scanning and printing. (source)
  • The ScottoLong is the newest handwired keyboard by Joe_Scotto, this time an ortho with 7u spacebar. (source)
  • Despite its appearance, the Schrodinger by SouthPawEngineer is logically a monoblock keyboard: sporting a single XIAO. (source)
Tips & TricksKeyboard Spotting
  • The NEC M-System was a Japanese input method and a series of word processor keyboards introduced in 1983. Posted by wj-zhe. (source)
  • The Sakhr AX-170 is a Z80-based MSX compatible computer from the '80s – posted by gymleader_brock. (source)
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