Issue 136 / Week 38 / 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 5+7 entries in this issue:

Editorial

• Quick news, in the mailbox, games, typewriters, meetups, updates, etc.

• I tested the M4CR0Pad by Ergohaven and thought it would be interesting to demonstrate the ease of setting it up, along with a typical use case.

• Maximus is a unibody split with trackpad by Protieusz – inspired by the Ieneko42c.
• Nakamura Hideki announced the testamatta #011, a nice low-pro unibody angled split keyboard. (source)

• Quentin Lebastard of Bastard Keyboards, designer of the Charybdis and Dilemma, talks about himself and his designs on the occasion of the upcoming release of the Dilemma Max.
• New LEGO-compatible board announced by KBDcraft: Lilith is also 60%, but it comes in a new case with 5.5 typing angle and in both ANSI/ISO flavors!
• Cyberdeck: Giga40 update with HIGOLEPC – committed by mujimanic.
• Tools: Vial to Keymap Drawer by YellowAfterlife takes your Vial .vil layouts and converts them to YAML that you can pass to keymap-drawer. And keyfab, a promising keyboard layout design tool by Jaroslaw Weber.
• Mod: notshitashi made a Glove80 with a trackpoint – with details and lots of WIP photos.
• Keyboard art – So much attention to detail: EX-00 – a heavily customized AM AFA R1 by TheExStudio. A life-size human size keyswitch out of cardboard (by i_like_miniwheats). Keebio Cepstrum illustration/map by jadepug. And this Jabberwocky with the tasty wooden wrist rest belongs to this column too I guess.
• Weekly Diderot effect: colorful replacement feet for Halo keyboards. And a slightly over-engineered suspension system with gas cylinders. ('but why?!')
• Typing game in the making: Kanji Kitchen by MochiDev. Learn Japanese while clicking and clacking – with in-game keyboards and keyboard sounds. Coming later this year on Steam.

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