Issue 88 / Week 30 / 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 13 entries in this issue:

Editorial

• Quick news, Issue 87 follow-up, vendor database update, new supporters, etc.

• u/Fmcraft published his Dilemma – a 5x3+2 split keyboard with trackpad. (source)
• Sadek Baroudi's Arachnophobe is a 30-key choc/mx monoblock split using any Seeed XIAO controller. (source)
• Andrew Rae}'s rae-dux, a 36-key wire- and diodeless split keyboard, built by {u/melze. (source)
• The split Ortholily is ortholinear, 3D-printed, handwired – and it's marcdosh575's first keyboard design. (source)
• Cockpit is a hotswap handwired monoblock split mechanical keyboard by ozkan. (source)
• Zack Freedman talks about his MiRage Mk2, an ortho split with eInk display. (source)

• Buyers who ordered their MBK Legend caps from G-Boards haven't received their sets. Reach out to FKcaps if you are one of them. (source)

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• CFX is a new low-pro keycap profile: 16.5x16.5mm square caps available at Chosfox in different colors.
• My impressions and a photodump of the doubleshot MDA "This Is Plastic" by MelGeek.
• Full body stacked Corne case open-sourced by u/atlantesque. (source)

• A Hottek 1KB101 keyboard with HTK switches – reviewed by Chyrosran22. (source)

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