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Issue 183 / Week 1 / 2025

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 9 entries in this issue:

A (r)evolutionary approach to improve on the standard keyboard layout

Since the year 2000, Peter has been on a quest to improve his typing comfort. In this three-part article series, you will discover three distinct solutions that balance layout compatibility with ergonomics.


Editorial

Behind the scenes #183

Keyboard projects, reviews, quick news, in the mailbox, vendors, discounts.


Switch trends

Best-selling keyboard switches of December, 2024

In this month's overview of community-favorite mechanical switches, here are December's top picks, based on real sales data provided by vendors and manufacturers.


Projects

Barnacle

The Barnacle is a modular ortho keyboard by floookay – heavily inspired by the Boardrun keyboards.


EDC36

A no-frills 36-key split keyboard with reversible PCB: EDC36 by Penk Chen.


Avocado V3

An update to Auryn's Corne clone: the split Avocado V3.


Puffer

Duarte Bento released his Puffer, a low-profile split keyboard with MX spacing.


Macrolev

The Macrolev is an open-source magnetic analog keyboard by Alexandre Moatty.


Molekula: keyboard & framework

Evgenii Vilkov shared his monoblock split Molekula, a modular keyboard and framework.


This issue was made possible by the donations of:
splitkb.com, ZSA Technology Labs, MoErgo Glove80, Aiksplace, Upgrade Keyboards, @keebio, Cyboard, Jason Hazel, Jacob Mikesell, Sean Grady, Ergohaven, KEEBD, @kaleid1990, littlemer-the-second, Timo, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Brendan P., Caleb Rand, James McCleese, Ben M, Yuan Liu, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, Clacky, Matthias Goffette, Stefan S., Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Hating TheFruit, Mario S., Cloyce, Dylan Ingham, Gordon Diggs, Shnobble, Davidjohn Gerena, Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Richard Dawe, s_p_l_o_d_e

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