Issue 55 / Week 48 / 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 14 entries in this issue:

Editorial

• Testing the Adafruit KB2040, CircuitPython and KMK. New guides. I won again. Giveaway & Issue #54 follow-up. BMC chaos. (source)

• The PicoSplit is a 3D printed, handwired split keyboard by Andreas Känner featuring a custom firmware written in CircuitPython. (source)
• Ladispad is an open-source 11 key macropad by ajmandourah with rotary encoders and an OLED screen. (source)
• A great photolog by SandwichRising on making a custom PCB and wooden case. (source)
• A cool keyboard salvaged from a nuclear missile silo converted by Pointless Tinkering. (source)
• Pangaea, a split keyboard with mind-boggling adjustability, has advanced to rev.3. Co-designed by @otahinosame, @k2 and @e3w2q. (source)
• Jim Merricks White published a new member of his 30% bugs family: the Flea. (source)

• The Keyboard Advent Calendar features blog posts by revered authors of the Japanese keyboard community. Curated by @yoichiro. (source)

• An interactive configurator for a keycap set GB by catecholate. (source)

• A quick teardown of the Outemu clicky optoelectric switches by Chyrosran22. (source)

• Don tries to standardize sound tests with his testing rig. (source)
• Doubleshots do wear out over time. Photo taken by jsheradin. (source)

• The classy IBM SCAMP was a prototype to showcase the APL programming language (1973). (source)
• Is this ergonomic workplace from an old Soviet sci-fi or an exhibition back in 1969? (source)

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