Issue 79 / Week 21 / 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 79

Issue #78 follow-up, new shops and discount codes, the historic KBD#1 is now partially available too, small developments.

Projects

Fiðrildi

Fiðrildi is a monoblock angled keyboard from Rivendell – designed by u/ButteredBread5255.

Lihis

This open-source split ortho PCB by Cedutus, named after a Finnish dish, is called Lihis.

µ10 keyboard

The µ10 or Micro10 by u/dj_edit is a small 28-key keyboard with a big spacebar.

Pee-two

Pee-two is a 2-key macropad with optional rotary encoder. Source files shared by u/pabile.

Tips & Tricks

Ergogen talk

Author u/mrzealot gave a talk on Ergogen at Free Software Conference.

Cityscape48

@tsukasa_metam's Cityscape48 is a pretty unique split keyboard with a multi-layer PCB construction to achieve a faux-keywell effect.

Mineral trackball

Working on the next iteration of his Dactyl, u/spacecadetAlsoWizard used a sodalite sphere as trackball.

Modular wrist-rest

u/Customniches made a 3D-printed modular wrist-rest to fit his collection.

Colorful silk screen

PCBBuy is experimenting with a colorful soldermask printing method and shared some photos of the results.

Tented wrist rest

A 3D printable tented frame by hephaestus_b designed to accommodate the popular gel wrist rest.

BOBO keycap profile

BoBo is a new uniform keycap profile from Tai Hao.

Keyboard Spotting

Type-Writing Machine, 1879

The first(?) steno machine patented by Miles M. Bartholomew in 1879.

Promotion

Free prototype PCBs from Seeed

Seeed Studio is running a sponsorship campaign of the Seeed Fusion Assembly service offering free PCB prototypes for DIY keyboard projects with a XIAO RP2040 controller included.

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