Issue 102 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #102
Check out the new issue with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
Here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
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Evgenii Vilkov's Pica40 v2 is a wired/wireless split with splay and XIAO MCUs.
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Remnant is a 58-key split, concave 3D keyboard announced by ergohaven's atlantesque. Hotswap, per key RGB, and prebuilt.
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Feather 40 by Mangokitty27. A 40% Alice board with KiCad files.
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Batreeq: A 30-key pseudosplit keyboard by AlSaMoMo – with a trackball and scroll ring.
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Synthetic00 has introduced Borne, this cute wireless split which is low profile and open-source.
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Gneiss01 is an interesting keyboard project by LeverMind2112 – involving clay, 3D scanning and printing.
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The ScottoLong is the newest handwired keyboard by Joe Scotto, this time an ortho with 7u spacebar.
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Despite its appearance, the Schrodinger by SouthPawEngineer is logically a monoblock keyboard: sporting a single XIAO.
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The EMA keycap profile is an in-house development by IDOBAO. A sculpted, spherical profile.
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Scylla/Charybdis adjustable tenting stand shared by gdeLopata.
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New 3D-printed low-profile Piantor case shared by leo_beekeeb.
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The NEC M-System was a Japanese input method and a series of word processor keyboards introduced in 1983. Posted by wj-zhe.
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The Sakhr AX-170 is a Z80-based MSX compatible computer from the '80s – posted by gymleader_brock.
Anniversary Giveaway
KBD.NEWS will turn 2 on Nov 20. 98 prizes were offered by 47 vendors thus far… Holy moly. :D
Check out the giveaway page and feel free to apply.
Many thanks to all the sponsors. I hope this wall of links won’t trigger the spam filters and a wave of unsubscribers:
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This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, PCBWay, Aiksplace, u/chad3814, @keebio, @kaleid1990, MKUltra, Sean Grady, Cyboard, cdc, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, KEEBD, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Jacob Mikesell, Joel Simpson, Keebstuff, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, littlemer-the-second, Spencer Blackwood, Christian Lo, Yuan Liu, Upgrade Keyboards, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Davidjohn Gerena, Caleb Rand, Skyler Thuss, Fabian Suceveanu, anonymous, Arto Olli, Hating TheFruit
You are awesome! Thanks everyone!
Behind the Scenes
This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series:
Anniversary giveaway update (what else?), Key Comp in the mailbox, new vendors, discounts, meetups.
Weekly keyboard art
There’s nothing new under the sun. Keebmats from the era of typewriters — by Mactire404 (source).