Issue 58 / Week 51 / 2021

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.

There are 11 entries in this issue:

Editorial

• Behind the Scenes: Quick news, TheBoard December competition, a telnet based literary magazine, etc.

• Chyrosran22 reviews the keyless orbiTouch device – and is not really impressed. (source)
• ThereminGoat reviews the SP Star Sacramento switches. (source)

• The cat is a gamepad or a shortcut-tool by Ape_Devil – with STLs and building documentation. (source)
• The Kleks keyoard is a low-pro monoblock split by Radomir Dopieralski with extreme pinky offset. (source)

• The RP2040 Stamp is a RP2040-based controller with LiPo charger and Neopixel – breaking out all GPIO pins. (source)
• A DIY keyswitch force-curve measuring machine by romly to be presented at Comiket C99. (source)

• Results of a 3-months long test investigating the effect of sunlight on an anodized keycap's color – committed by flehrad. (source)
• An open-source 3D-printed case for the Sweep keyboard, designed by Knifa. (source)
• Zeal Clickies: this switch features a secondary spring leaf which can turn it into a tactile or linear. (source)

• The Touchboard is an all-in-one human input device concept by the German Butterfly Company. (source)

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