Issue 50 / Week 43 / 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:

Review

• ThereminGoat reviews the Novelkeys Cream Tactile switches. (source)

• The Lyra and SuperLyra, a split and a pseudosplit with numpad in the center, are two open-source designs by Malevolti. (source)
• The Railroad keyboard, DiplomacyPunIn10Did's first design, is now open source. (source)
• A new revision of the Pinkytyl by ripxorip, this time with Chocs. (source)
• The Mirage is a low-profile mechanical keyboard with clickable OLED displays and CircuitPython. (source)
• Protocol Seven, a monoblock split by PM_ME_YOUR_MAINFRAME with a numpad in the center comes with source files.
• The Chonkpad is an open-source 3D printed MurphPad case by Customniches. (source)
• An open-source magnetic macropad case by bikepackerdude. (source)

• The Keyboard Store Map is another interface for the dataset of the Keyboard Vendor Database. About 150 keyboard shops put on a map. (source)

• The MxLEDBitPCB by swanmatch is a 1u Amoeba-alternative with Kailh hotswap support. (source)
• jdigi78 designed and published an ultrawide display mount for the Mercutio. (source)
• Difference in routing of some USB-C Pro Micro clones reported by hellmoneywarriors. (source)

• Rossenheimer thought folks will appreciate the unidentified luggable computer his boss brought to the office. (source)
• A 1979 Heathkit H89 running an ASCII version of Space Invaders. Acquired by glencanyon. (source)

• Tokyo based elevator button manufacturer Shimada Denki Seisakusho set up a wall of 1,048 buttons to press. (source)

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