Issue 145 / Week 47 / 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+7 entries in this issue:
Editorial
Behind the scenes #145
Giveaway and advent calendar update, quick news, in the mailbox, meetups, new vendors and discount codes!
Projects
Ergonaut One
Ergonaut One is a split with KS33 switches released by the newly formed team of Ergonaut Keyboards.
ScottoWing
Joe Scotto is back with a very low profile handwired unibody split: ScottoWings.
YetiS
A 34-key diodeless split for larger hands: YetiS by jogme.
Bunchiez40
The bunchiez40 is an ultracompact ortholinear keyboard designed by Christian Lo – with mouse switches!
Pome76
As standard as this row-staggered keyboard looks like, Jamie Ding's Pome76 behaves like a "unibody ergo". How?
Tern Ble
Gleb Sabirzyanov published his Tern Ble, a wireless remix of the Tern keyboard.
VU.A
VU.A is a fully wireless split with row staggering designed by EagleVee.
Tips & Tricks
Alice gap fillers
Tardigrade shared some 3D models to fill the gaps of Alice boards.
Quick news
High Plains Drifter (HPD) is the newest split model of ergohaven. (I've been using their Planeta at home and a Glove80 at work, and the HPD seems like a love child of the two.) In addition, the Ergohaven Planeta case is now open source.
Budget: I'm a big fan of cardboard prototyping when it comes to ergo keyboards. It turns out this works for classic layouts too: cardboard case by Mediocre_Ad5863. But there was a handwired ortho board made of leftover vinyl flooring too. Committed by tschibo00.
There's a short interview with CeraKey's founder over at gamepro.com.au.
Dodecahedron switch holder by hllvnd. And a similar one from 2018.
Closed source, commercial, N/A: Tomy announced by mikethetiger_ (keyboardarcade.xyz). Wing18 Alpha by EricaAngelASMR.
Switches: WS Jades with metal inserts in the stem and tube base, pressure sensitive switches on the Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II sampler, and of course the roller linear switches (IC) with ball bearings.
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