Issue 105 / Week 48 / 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.

There are 15 entries in this issue:

Editorial

• Giveaway follow-up, advent calendar, Keebsmas, new vendors, discounts, meetups, etc.

• Ben Vallack shares his free-fall into the custom keyboard rabbit hole where things keep getting weirder and weirder.
• Joe Scotto, the self-proclaimed “Handwiring Guy” sums up his last few months designing and building handwired keyboards.

• This angled monoblock keyboard by dj_edit dubbed TeeShirt comes in three different sizes. (source)
• The swweeep is an open source, wireless only split keyboard with nice!view support. Committed by u/sadekbaroudi. (source)
• The S60 is a member of the simplyKeeb family designed by Geaz84. Split, 60 keys, open source. (source)
• An open-source, wooden video editing keypad by Sokolsok: the SS4H-EK. (source)
• Lego65 – an open-source 65% LEGO keyboard project by DarkoVader. (source)
• Lets unite? A 3D printed monoblock case for the Lets Split by altapowderdog. (source)
• Sasha Karmanov shared his distinctive Thumbs Up! V2 keyboard with a raised thumb cluster. (source)

• Some thoughts about the tradition of MK advent calendars in the Japanese DIY keyboard community. As the 0th day post of the first KBD.NEWS Advent Calendar.

• Josh Johnson released the Sea-Picro, a Pro Micro alternative with RP2040 and some neat features.
• MBK Convex and MBK POM keycaps are on the way to vendors.

• Ikeji's Pittheus is a foldable monoblock keyboard with a clever hinge mechanism. (source)
• Not a classic keyboard, not a classic cyberdeck: Armachat TOUCH by bobricius. (source)

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