Issue 37 / Week 30 / 2021
This is a hand-picked selection of last week's content from a keyboard builder's perspective. Posts that may teach you something, make you think and contribute to the common knowledge of the DIY builder community.
There are 13 entries in this issue:
Editorial
Behind the Scenes of Issue 37
Holiday season, issue 36 follow-up, 1000 newsletter subscribers, most popular posts, developments, long term trends, to-do and priority list.
Projects
Engraved Adelais case
An amazing engraved Adelais case by dinhthai060.
IBM Model M dome swap & chopjob
Turn up the radio! Today's hot single: Bitteneite's 70% Model M with choplog.
Charybdis - Dactyl trackball keyboard
The Charybdis by Fmcraft is a Dactyl spin-off with well-placed trackball.
MacroPact released on Github
The MacroPact by kbjunky is now open-sourced and available on GitHub
Open-source Corne travel case
Consistent-Egg's cleaned up Corne travel case design is on GitHub.
Community
On hand-engraving with Thịnh Trần
Thịnh Trần, the self-taught artist behind the hand-engraved Adelais answering some questions.
Tools
Warm Up - VS Code extension
A VS Code extension by Jeusto to practice and improve your typing speed right inside your code editor.
Benign Key Logger
A secure keylogger by skibau to help understand your keyboard usage.
Tips & Tricks
RTX 3080 keycap with fan
This 3D printed RTX 3080 keycap by lapinozz has a working fan!
History
Japanese typewriters
An old write-up on the inner working mechanism and general evolution of Japanese typewriters.
Keyboard Spotting
A battered Geac
Cute writing found by i_heart_lolis on a Geac 8340, an 80's library computer keyboard.
Motorola KDT480
An old school police keyboard spotted by ya-best-beleeDat.
splitkb.com, Jeremy Kitchen, AikenJG, @kaleid1990, u/chad3814, Eugenie, sebastian siggerud, ajoflo, siriximi & 2 anonymous donors.
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