Issue 107 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #107
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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Sadek Baroudi’s walkthrough of how he designs 3D models – Starting with a PCB, and ending with a model that you can export for 3D printing.
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Hasumikin introduces the PRK firmware and sums up this year's achievements.
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While focusing on the charm of the 21 DIY keyboards he built in 2022, Daihuku also introduced two keyboard meetups held in Japan.
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Stephen Cheng reviewed the eight year journey to bring Glove80 ergonomic keyboard to mass manufacturing.
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Cipulot summed up his journey in the field of designing electrostatic capacitive PCBs.
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A sneak peek into the keyboard journey and workflow of GEIST, this year's winner of the Seeed keyboard competition.
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Krikun98 designs 44-key wireless splits with weird switches collectors would either tear him apart for or would be very intrigued by.
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The Velvet by atlantesque is a compact 38-key minimalist variation of Dactyl Manuform.
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wEnki44 is a wireless version of the split Enki42, published by aroum.
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ScyllaBallz Rev 2.5 by tenstaana – a Skylla on steroids.
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This post by wolfwood proposes a modification to the improved square keyboard matrix in order to support a low power wake-on-keypress mode, which has been a deficiency of this design until now.
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The Yucu 2000 by Cu3b is a 38-40 key 'super staggered' split keyboard with single-key PCBs.
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Sadek Baroudi is having fun with led rings, this time on his ffkb.
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AsherKeats' 42Azalia is a monoblock angled ortho keyboard created via a PCB generator.
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Inspired by old letterpress type cases, Attoparsec designed a keyboard based on the California Two Thirds layout.
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A 10-key ergo keyboard or an adjustable controller for gamers? The MoveMaster is an input device with a distinctive appearance.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, PCBWay, Aiksplace, @keebio, u/chad3814, @kaleid1990, MKUltra, Upgrade Keyboards, Sean Grady, cdc, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, KEEBD, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Jacob Mikesell, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, littlemer-the-second, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Keebstuff, Christian Lo, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Daniel Nikolov, 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 & advent calendar follow-up, vendor & discount updates, small developments, dark mode test, etc.
Weekly keyboard art
HUMUS Radial — A desktop computer from a world where circular displays became commonplace. By prokhrvig (source).