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Issue 96 / Week 38 / 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 96

Quick news, Seeed competition, cake day inventory, updates on donations (26%), vendors, meetups, developments.


Projects

Ximi prototype

Ximi is a split keyboard prototype with dual trackball/trackpad support – by Sadek Baroudi.


Converted Tipro

Alinelena converted a TIPRO cash register to an 8x12 ortho.


Scooped layout on poles

Snoo posted a Dactyl-ish scooped keyboard with all the keys having their own post.


Figured walnut case

JPSwagDaddy's first build has a handmade figured walnut case.


GeckoPad

Matthew Dobinson's GeckoPad is a one-handed keyboard inspired by the FrogPad.


Tip-Type

Tip-Type is a wearable wireless keyboard and mouse for AR glasses – designed by freedscript.


Community

Kebab from Bangladesh

On the mechanical keyboard scene of Bangladesh in general, and on Kebab, the first group buy of the local community.


Keyboard Spotting

Cakeday inventory 2022

My annual photo shoot of my (mostly vintage) keyboard collection.


Inspiration

Waitier

Waitier is a stacked PCB one-key macropad by @yynmt_.


Paper keycap

A paper keycap prototype, the first step to a fully paper keyboard, by PykeTheTitan.


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, kiyejoco, MKUltra, Bob Cotton, KEEBD, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, Joel Simpson, @therick0996, Jacob Mikesell, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, littlemer-the-second, Christian Lo, Upgrade Keyboards, Daniel Nikolov, Davidjohn Gerena, CENTOREK, Fabian Suceveanu, Skyler Thuss, u/eighty58five, anonymous

Your support is crucial to help this project to survive.

Discussion over at r/mk!
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