Issue 73 / Week 15 / 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 of Issue 73

A special anniversary, new vendors, new discount code, some developments, etc.

Projects

Sweeeeep

The Sweeeeep is Sadek Baroudi's take on the Sweep – with per-key LEDs, OLED and Elite-C as controller.

MiniNova

Tony Jeffree's MiniNova is a cute 30% staggered keyboard with exposed diodes.

Walnut board

This handwired walnut keyboard by u/gregschlom was CNCed from a single piece of wood which acts as the case, plate and cable guide as well.

Kiboard68

Zealousideal's Kiboard68 is a 60% handwired ortho with numpad.

Procyon

Astra's Procyon is a cute 40% keyboard – Morningstar layout in a split form.

Atreyu

Jesus Climent published his monoblock Atreyu's PCB files.

la_nc

u/Subrezon's la_nc is a Pro Micro based 42-key ortholinear keyboard.

Community

Keebio community map

Folks at Keebio put all of their customers on a community map – over 90 countries represented.

Yushakobo shop tour

Daihuku shot a cool video tour of Yushakobo, the iconic keyboard store in Tokyo.

Tips & Tricks

MT2 keycap profile

Drop announced a cylindrical Cherry/OEM clone called MT2.

Morningstar PCB art

Astra's Morningstar is a cute Pro Micro based, hotswap, 40% ergonomic unibody keyboard with a little glowing LED star in it.

Keyboard Spotting

HP 9845

The HP 9845, Hewlett Packard's flagship from 1977, and the first "workstation".

Inspiration

Yamada Willow

Daraku-Neko's Yamada Willow is a monoblock split with the Willow layout and an ambidextrous numpad.

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