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Issue 116 / Week 11 / 2023

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 19 entries in this issue:

Editorial

Behind the Scenes of Issue 116

Newsletters merged, new shops & meetups, small developments, etc.


Projects

Bloq 36

The split Bloq 36 by Kunsteak features thumb clusters on a lower plane.


KaRP2040

u/jammerkiai's KaRP2040 is an RP2040-Zero based unibody split keyboard.


Smudge

Smudge is a custom 3D-printed keyboard design by Sandalmoth – handwired with curved keywell.


babbit36

Sporewoh's babbit36 is an ultraportable wireless ortholinear keyboard.


Smol keyboard

Evgenii Vilkov's Smol is a split prototype with a cool sandwich case.


Mantis v0.2

Felix Kuehling's Mantis v0.2, sporting HEX keycaps, has now PCBs on two levels to imitate tenting.


Dynamis

An open-source 65% keyboard with integrated trackball: dynamis by bbrfkr.


Abomination v1.2

A Choc-spaced Corne with XIAO controllers: Abomination v1.2 by OrangeCrusader.


PSKeeb2

Klesh Wong's PSKeeb2 is a portable split keyboard with tenting, rotary encoder and trackpoint.


Narfpad

A tiny Choc-spaced macropad with encoder – Narfpad by ADreamOfStorms.


Stress fightpad

GrO3veman designed an arcade fight pad dubbed Stress.


Tools

Online Dactyl Generator

LostPistachio shared his online Dactyl generator – with fast previews and STL export.


Tips & Tricks

URSA keycap profile

URSA is a new keycap profile designed for Topre keyboards – a collab between 23_Andreas and FKcaps.


Doys & BLOCK caps

Two uniform keycap profiles with a retro square base: Doys by Deadline.Studio and BLOCKs by HIBI.


Typing Tempo

A typing rhythm game by charitea12: Typing Tempo.


Inspiration

tinyKeys

An about 10 cm wide 40% keyboard by juskim: tinyKeys with Gerbers.


Aloidia v1

Designed by ItsBluu, the Aloidia v1 is a wireless solar split keyboard with lots of hotswap components.


CHOMPI

CHOMPI is a cute looper with mechanical keys – as inspiration.


This issue was made possible by the donations of:
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, Aiksplace, @keebio, MKUltra, Upgrade Keyboards, @kaleid1990, Sean Grady, Cyboard, cdc, KEEBD, Jacob Mikesell, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, littlemer-the-second, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Christian Lo, Jason Hazel, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Spencer Blackwood, Daniel Nikolov, Yuan Liu, u/eighty58five, Skyler Thuss, Caleb Rand, Davidjohn Gerena, Mats Faugli, Arto Olli, Fabian Suceveanu, anonymous, Hating TheFruit, Matthias Goffette, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell

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