Issue 67 / Week 9 / 2022
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 14 entries in this issue:
Editorial
- Behind the Scenes: Keyboards in shelled homes, refugee crisis and some of your options to help.
- u/SouthPawEngineer's Ergozero runs KMK firmware on a tiny RP2040 Zero controller. (source)
- Cool836pico – An angled monoblock Pico-based keyboard from m.ki. Optionally low-profile and open-source. (source)
- Quentin's Charybdis family is extending with the Nano – with open-source case files. (source)
- The handwired Krangle by u/mjongerh has an intimidating amount of keys. (source)
- A custom Lumberjack PCB] by u/tj_shex using an Elite-C and OLED display. (source)
- Fingerpunch Keyboards}' monoblock Rock On] in a mesmerizing case by {u/chewiedies (source)
- Diego Palacios' Cantor is a 42-key diodeless split keyboard. (source)
- Third iteration of David Kincade's Track Beast – resin edition. (source)
- Two new CircuitPython boards by u/SouthPawEngineer, called the Caduceus. (source)
- u/Geri00's gTetris is a handwired project with great photolog. (source)
- Damn Fine Keyboards is a new PDFzine by CCH Podcast's Philipp. Check it out and subscribe! (source)
- The Teletype Model 33, an electromechanical teleprinter from the '60s with actual cylinders as its keys. (source)
- u/R009k saved a vintage Fluke 1720A Programmer Keyboard from getting thrown out. (source)
This issue was made possible by the donations of:
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, @kaleid1990, ghsear.ch, cdc, Timo, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Sean Grady, Rick Kremer, Joel Simpson, Nuno Leitano, Davidjohn Gerena, Spencer Blackwood
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, @kaleid1990, ghsear.ch, cdc, Timo, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Sean Grady, Rick Kremer, Joel Simpson, Nuno Leitano, Davidjohn Gerena, Spencer Blackwood
Your support is crucial to help this project survive.
Discussion over at r/mk!