Issue 71 / Week 13 / 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: 2,000 newsletter subscribers, purging inactive users, consider contributing to the new costs, etc.
- Hanachi's Ergotonic F-24 comes with a unique adjustable centerpiece making this keyboard split or monoblock on demand. (source)
- Lyso1's LCK75 PCB updated, tweaked and republished by u/short_lurker. (source)
- u/MomonaBoy's Preonic + Plank combo became his ultimate gaming keyboard. (source)
- The Gherkin++ is u/bgkendall's approach to augment the classic 3x10 layout. (source)
- Christian Lo's banime40 is a versatile ortho PCB with 24 possible layouts. (source)
- Dmitry Cherepanov's private museum of retro computers in Mariupol, Ukraine, has been destroyed. (source)
- LPX is an FDM-printer optimized Choc keycap design by u/levpopov. (source)
- Reviung41 with a twist – Delta 3D printed case and rotary mod by u/Stove24. (source)
- The QAZer Beam is a QAZ in a beamspring-like case designed by u/Pocketfullofbugs. (source)
- A Dick Smith Cat a.k.a. VTech Laser 3000 repaired and posted by u/lizardb0y. (source)
- u/lBlanc99 revived and restored a dead Costar CSK-7101N keyboard. (source)
- Keycaps with interchangeable tops posted by u/hunghingdailo. (source)
- Combining woodworking with electronics, u/mw33212 made a walnut cyberdeck with a cheap foldable keyboard. (source)
This issue was made possible by the donations of:
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, @kaleid1990, ghsear.ch, cdc, Bob Cotton, kiyejoco, Timo, Sean Grady, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Nuno Leitano, Spencer Blackwood, KEEBD, Shane Celis, Davidjohn Gerena, Yuan Liu
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, @kaleid1990, ghsear.ch, cdc, Bob Cotton, kiyejoco, Timo, Sean Grady, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Nuno Leitano, Spencer Blackwood, KEEBD, Shane Celis, Davidjohn Gerena, Yuan Liu
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