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
- Issue #78 follow-up, new shops and discount codes, the historic KBD#1 is now partially available too, small developments.
- Fiðrildi is a monoblock angled keyboard from Rivendell – designed by u/ButteredBread5255. (source)
- This open-source split ortho PCB by Cedutus, named after a Finnish dish, is called Lihis. (source)
- The µ10 or Micro10 by u/dj_edit is a small 28-key keyboard with a big spacebar. (source)
- Pee-two is a 2-key macropad with optional rotary encoder. Source files shared by u/pabile. (source)
- Author u/mrzealot gave a talk on Ergogen at Free Software Conference. (source)
- @tsukasa_metam's Cityscape48 is a pretty unique split keyboard with a multi-layer PCB construction to achieve a faux-keywell effect.
- Working on the next iteration of his Dactyl, u/spacecadetAlsoWizard used a sodalite sphere as trackball. (source)
- u/Customniches made a 3D-printed modular wrist-rest to fit his collection. (source)
- PCBBuy is experimenting with a colorful soldermask printing method and shared some photos of the results. (source)
- A 3D printable tented frame by hephaestus_b designed to accommodate the popular gel wrist rest. (source)
- BoBo is a new uniform keycap profile from Tai Hao. (source)
- The first(?) steno machine patented by Miles M. Bartholomew in 1879. (source)
- 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. (source)
This issue was made possible by the donations of:
PCBWay, splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, @kaleid1990, Clickety Split, ghsear.ch, cdc, Sean Grady, Bob Cotton, kiyejoco, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, Joel Simpson, Nuno Leitano, @therick0996, KEEBD, Spencer Blackwood, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Yuan Liu, Davidjohn Gerena, Alexey Alekhin, Fabian Suceveanu
PCBWay, splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, @kaleid1990, Clickety Split, ghsear.ch, cdc, Sean Grady, Bob Cotton, kiyejoco, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, Joel Simpson, Nuno Leitano, @therick0996, KEEBD, Spencer Blackwood, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Yuan Liu, Davidjohn Gerena, Alexey Alekhin, Fabian Suceveanu
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