Issue 151 / Week 3 / 2024
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 7+6 entries in this issue:
Editorial
Behind the scenes #151
Keyboard projects, quick news, in the mailbox, meetups, new vendors and discount codes!
Switch trends
Top switches of December, 2023
Milktooth's Kevin helps us to capture the zeitgeist and identify December's most popular switches for mechanical keyboards.
Review
DaringRun DR-70F review
The DR-70F by DaringRun is a great and affordable 70+5% keyboard at the same time – with an XT-style F column and clever two-in-one layout configuration à la TENET70.
Projects
Redpoll
Azel's Redpoll, a low-pro unibody keyboard, is made out of plywood.
Egboard v2
ArchUsr's handwired Egboard is a monoblock split keyboard powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico running Rust.
Ch55p34
The unibody Ch55p34 by Alex Miller uses the CH552T MCU, and it runs on FAK firmware.
Duet
The wireless unibody Duet is Evgenii Vilkov's latest keyboard project and travel companion.
Quick news
Morgan announced the Svalboard Lightly (r/emk post), successor of the Svalboard Alpha (interview).
Community: Vendor issues? Deskthority shutdown?! Sad news shared by r/mk mod Omnias-42.
Commercial: The modue, a modular control station from three nice Polish guys, is stepping into the Kickstarter stage. They snap together magnetically, just like zzeneg's Duet above.
Haimu clip-in switches. Mounting pins clip into the PCB which helps with plateless builds.
Art: Hanok 75 by Xlyflw – an Akko ACR 75 Pro built into a traditional Korean house model. (Check out the original post for the top view.)
Inspiration: Snowflake macropad by @takashicompany.
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