Issue 49 / Week 42 / 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 15 entries in this issue:

Editorial

• New vendor map with sneak peek. Vendor database update with new discount codes. Olympia SM2. Is this a typewriter collection now? Issue 48 follow-up. (source)
• Upcoming giveaway, vendor map disaster with takeaways, bong cat guest appearance, new discount codes, experiences of mailing 340 keyboard vendors. (source)

• A 3D printed modular mini 3D keyboard by ikeji. (source)
• Jibril-sama built his own 3D-printed, handwired keyboard with exposed diode array. (source)
• Harkonnen - a low profile Atreus62 variant by tahnok42 with Kailh Choc 2 and plate files. (source)
• The SeveredDuck36, a 36-key split keyboard inspired by the Kyria and Arch-36, is now released by CyanDuck17. (source)
• Enki42 is a slim ergo split keyboard by aroum2 with Choc spacing. (source)
• The Red Herring by dj_edit is a split ergo 75% board similar to an Alice, but with columnar staggering. (source)

• Fmcraft published his flexible Dactyl Manuform PCBs. (source)
• Imitating various ergo keyboard layouts with Zebra. Posted by key-yack. (source)

• Akabander plans to recreate a Fujitsu Micro-8 keyboard. (source)
• The mechanical launch button of a Soviet ICBM silo over 100 feet below the surface. Posted by MaximumBasis9326. (source)
• The TRS-80 Model 4 is the last Z80-based home computer family by Radio Shack, sold from April 1983 through late 1991. Posted by Tomegajones. (source)

• Filco's 4.4kg heavyweight fullsize with steel top plate and handle. (source)
• A medley of crazy ideas like a big-ass enter with embedded touchpad, artisan OLED covers, prototyping with rails, and LED indicator light using a BIC ballpoint tube.

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