Issue 106 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #106
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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As part of the Advent Calendar, ThereminGoat gave his take on the data he has collected with switches in the previous year.
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Peter Lyons reviewed results of over a dozen experimental DIY keyboard feature prototypes he has built within the Squeezebox R&D.
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Sharktastica looks back at some of the accomplishments and events of the last year.
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Christian Lo outlined his experimental projects and provided a behind the scenes look of his highlights of the year.
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A quick overview of Matt3o’s 10-years experience in the mechanical keyboard industry who also delved into future projects including a collaboration with GMK.
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Pete Johanson, creator/project lead of the ZMK firmware, offered some guidance for keyboard designers new to wireless designs.
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Thomas aka Chyrosran22 summed up how keyboards changed during the last fifty years and took a look at the explosion of innovations that have happened in the field over the last few years.
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New projects: LifeHackerMax published all the files necessary to build his LHM Morph modular platform.
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Pete Johanson's revxlp, mentioned in his post for the calendar, is a variant of the Reviung41 keyboard, but low profile, and supports controllers with the XIAO footprint.
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This pointed me to the revxlp by Cyril279, an earlier model inspired by the Reviung series, and designed for Choc switches.
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Jason Hazel's dust is an ultrathin sweep-alike split keyboard.
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Check out Keebsmas, an annual holiday charity event including Twitch streamers hosting giveaways and raising donations. This year for DIY Girls.
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A new open-source controller with tiny footprint: Epi by rallekralle11.
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A DIY dye sub keycap press by ericausome as inspiration: the Jankey Press 6000.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, PCBWay, Aiksplace, u/chad3814, @keebio, @kaleid1990, MKUltra, Upgrade Keyboards, Sean Grady, cdc, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, KEEBD, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, Jacob Mikesell, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Keebstuff, littlemer-the-second, Christian Mladenov, Christian Lo, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Daniel Nikolov, Alexander Karmanov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, Skyler Thuss, Davidjohn Gerena, Fabian Suceveanu, Arto Olli, anonymous, Hating TheFruit
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Behind the Scenes
This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series:
Giveaway follow-up, advent calendar, new discount, updates, etc.
Weekly keyboard art
Kakapo’s Nest by flogfrog (source) — with a terminal resembling a Tektronix.