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Issue 94 / Week 36 / 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.

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There are 11 entries in this issue:

Editorial

Behind the Scenes of Issue 94

Fusion of hobbies, reunion, quick news, new vendors & coupons, meetups, donors.


Projects

Pragmatic

A split keyboard family by u/james_sa with a central controller piece: Pragmatic.


Alphalpha+

Ottimo's Alphalpha built by u/wayduh.


Paperplane

Paperplane is a highly customizable modular case system by Fuankee.


Emblem aka BTA

Tenstaana came up with Emblem aka BTA, another feature-rich monoblock design.


Infernum

Infernum is a sub-40% keyboard with Katana layout – designed by Hai_Zeus.


Community

Interview with Pekaso-san

I asked Pekaso-san, one of the most influential members of the Japanese mechanical keyboard scene, about his weekly show on Youtube and related side gigs.


Review

TKC Blackberry review

TKC Blackberry switches reviewed by u/ThereminGoat.


Tips & Tricks

Tilted thumb key

A 3D-printed tilted keycap for a more comfortable thumb cluster.


Keyboard Spotting

BBC Micro

Keybordle spotted a BBC Micro in London's science museum, giving an opportunity to mention its historic role.


Inspiration

Skateboard keyboard

A wooden keyboard case made out of old skateboard decks – by u/ansedehenle.


This issue was made possible by the donations of:
splitkb.com, PCBWay, MoErgo Glove80, Aiksplace, u/chad3814, @keebio, @kaleid1990, Cyboard, Sean Grady, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, cdc, MKUltra, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, KEEBD, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Christian Mladenov, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Jacob Mikesell, littlemer-the-second, Upgrade Keyboards, Davidjohn Gerena, Christian Lo, Fabian Suceveanu, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, anonymous

Your support is crucial to help this project to survive.

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