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Issue 134 / Week 36 / 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.

There are 9+3 entries in this issue:

Editorial

Behind the scenes #2023/36

Quick news, Killer Whale, new shops and discounts, lots of new meetups, new keyboard competition in sight.

Projects

FOREVER-1

FOREVER-1 by Protieusz is a monoblock split with an encoder and trackpad in the center à la GRIN Quern.

Juriform36

Shared by Jurica Bacurin, the juriform36 is a 36-key wireless split keyboard with keywell.

GameBoard

Evgenii Vilkov shared his half-keyboard GameBoard, optimized for gaming.

Open Deck

Open Deck is a macropad with a customizable image behind every key – shared by joshr120.

Temper

Temper – a wireless-only split keyboard by raeedcho, based on the Chocofi.

Batoid

Kotte's Batoid is a handwired monoblock split in a cute case. Small footprint, big personality.

Basilisk

Radliński Ignacy designed a Dactyl-like ergo split in Fusion360 – the Basilisk.

Tips & Tricks

New flexible PCB

Alakuu from Skree.us revised his flexible PCBs and designed a new XIAO-Flex MCU breakout board.

Quick news

Some commercial or closed-source products: Erez announced the Voyager, the first low-pro board by ZSA. Rhino Pad is a macropad for CAD by Kea Workshop. Zensai 65 is a wooden 65% keyboard by ori-kobo. And the Zireael, a Corne-like wireless split in plastic or aluminum case, is still in the making.

Diderot effect: Megalodon Lumine is a macropad and display platform for action figures. Fragrance keyboards – I really wasn't expecting this – shared by Idobao.

LevelType is typing practice app written in Go, focusing on spacegrams. It runs in console, and there's no WPM, no backspace/del either. How does that sound? Makes sense to me but the UI/UX needs an upgrade.

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