Issue 90 / Week 32 / 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

• Complaints, shops closing, donors leaving, new vendors, new meetups, etc.

• Marco's DASBOB is a 36-key diodeless split with splay and buzzer. (source)
• Sonal Pinto's Purple Owl is an all-1u, uniformly staggered 60% keyboard. (source)
• Kretsträd is a Seeeduino Xiao BLE based 34-keys split keyboard by u/wj-zhe – running ZMK. (source)
• Phaethon is a through-hole keyboard with a solar panel – designed by u/mrninhvn. (source)
• The Avlo44 is a unibody split with exposed diodes designed by u/jrp22. (source)
• The UniChunky by u/tenstaana is basically two Chunkies fused together. (source)
• Ursula is a low-profile 5-column split keyboard by u/jamesmnw. (source)
• The working title of u/Zonattu's 40% Alice-ish PCB project is Liisa. (source)

• An experiment in vapor polishing ABS keycaps – by u/mmalluck. (source)

• u/autonomouschair spotted a gorgeous Tandberg Data keyboard in the Oslo National Museum. (source)

• FGHTR SWTCH is a unique artisan keycap housing by mecxlabs. (source)

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