Issue 80 / Week 22 / 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 12 entries in this issue:
Editorial
- Issue #79 follow-up, lots of new discounts, purchasing the Kontron, upcoming raffles.
- Nora is a family of low-profile narrow-pitch keyboards designed by Takeshi Nishio. (source)
- Aki27's cocot46plus is a monoblock angled mechanical keyboard with a beefy 34mm trackball, rotary encoder, and OLED display.
- The wireless gurt-portable is u/Gurtmail's first keyboard design (source)
- This wireless vertical Dactyl TypeSafe was designed and shared by u/tewtham. (source)
- Jim Jackson created a macropad with customizable profiles read from an SD card. (source)
- Exciting low-pro POM keycaps on the horizon. MBK Convex caps are a joint effort by Max Burger} and {Stephen Cheng.
- Matt3o announced that his WIP MTNU keycap profile will be manufactured by GMK. (source)
- Umō by Ergorius is a top-mount 3D-printable case for the 40% Yasui PCB. (source)
- I bought this cute vintage 60% Kontron PSI 80 a few weeks ago and decided it's time to clean it, investigate its interior, and share some photos.
- Salvaged by u/NintendoDuck from a recycling center: a cool Fujitsu keyboard of unknown origin. (source)
- Icelandic horses happily typing on a big tailor-made keyboard... (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, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Nuno Leitano, 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, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Nuno Leitano, KEEBD, Spencer Blackwood, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Yuan Liu, Davidjohn Gerena, Alexey Alekhin, Fabian Suceveanu
Your support is crucial to help this project to survive.
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