Issue 107 / Week 50 / 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 17 entries in this issue:
Editorial
- Giveaway & advent calendar follow-up, vendor & discount updates, small developments, dark mode test, etc.
- Sadek Baroudi provides a detailed walkthrough of how he designs 3D models – Starting with a PCB, and ending with a model that you can export for 3D printing.
- Developer hasumikin introduces the PRK firmware and sums up this year's achievements.
- While focusing on the charm of the 21 DIY keyboards he built in 2022, Daihuku will also introduce two keyboard meetups held in Japan.
- Co-designer Stephen Cheng reviews the eight year journey to bring Glove80 ergonomic keyboard to mass manufacturing.
- Cipulot sums up his journey in the field of designing electrostatic capacitive PCBs.
- Let's take a sneak peek into the keyboard journey and workflow of GEIST, this year's winner of the Seeed keyboard competition.
- Krikun98 designs 44-key wireless splits with weird switches collectors would either tear him apart for or would be very intrigued by.
- The Velvet by u/atlantesque is a compact 38-key minimalist variation of Dactyl Manuform. (source)
- wEnki44 is a wireless version of the split Enki42, published by aroum. (source)
- ScyllaBallz Rev 2.5 by tenstaana – a Skylla on steroids. (source)
- This post by wolfwood proposes a modification to the improved square keyboard matrix in order to support a low power wake-on-keypress mode, which has been a deficiency of this design until now. (source)
- The Yucu 2000 by u/Cu3b is a 38-40 key 'super staggered' split keyboard with single-key PCBs. (source)
- Sadek Baroudi is having fun with led rings, this time on his ffkb. (source)
- AsherKeats' 42Azalia is a monoblock angled ortho created by a PCB generator. (source)
- Inspired by old letterpress type cases, Attoparsec designed a keyboard based on the California Two Thirds layout. (source)
- A 10-key ergo keyboard or an adjustable controller for gamers? The MoveMaster is an input device with a distinctive appearance. (source)
This issue was made possible by the donations of:
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, PCBWay, Aiksplace, u/chad3814, @keebio, @kaleid1990, MKUltra, Upgrade Keyboards, Sean Grady, cdc, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, KEEBD, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, Jacob Mikesell, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Keebstuff, littlemer-the-second, Christian Mladenov, Christian Lo, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Daniel Nikolov, Alexander Karmanov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, Skyler Thuss, Davidjohn Gerena, Fabian Suceveanu, Arto Olli, anonymous, Hating TheFruit
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, PCBWay, Aiksplace, u/chad3814, @keebio, @kaleid1990, MKUltra, Upgrade Keyboards, Sean Grady, cdc, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, KEEBD, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, Jacob Mikesell, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Keebstuff, littlemer-the-second, Christian Mladenov, Christian Lo, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Daniel Nikolov, Alexander Karmanov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, Skyler Thuss, Davidjohn Gerena, Fabian Suceveanu, Arto Olli, anonymous, Hating TheFruit
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