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December 16, 2022

Issue 107 / Keyboard Builders' Digest

Keyboard Builders’ Digest #107

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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:

  1. 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.

  2. Hasumikin introduces the PRK firmware and sums up this year's achievements.

  3. While focusing on the charm of the 21 DIY keyboards he built in 2022, Daihuku also introduced two keyboard meetups held in Japan.

  4. Stephen Cheng reviewed the eight year journey to bring Glove80 ergonomic keyboard to mass manufacturing.

  5. Cipulot summed up his journey in the field of designing electrostatic capacitive PCBs.

  6. A sneak peek into the keyboard journey and workflow of GEIST, this year's winner of the Seeed keyboard competition.

  7. Krikun98 designs 44-key wireless splits with weird switches collectors would either tear him apart for or would be very intrigued by.

  8. The Velvet by atlantesque is a compact 38-key minimalist variation of Dactyl Manuform.

  9. wEnki44 is a wireless version of the split Enki42, published by aroum.

  10. ScyllaBallz Rev 2.5 by tenstaana – a Skylla on steroids.

  11. 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.

  12. The Yucu 2000 by Cu3b is a 38-40 key 'super staggered' split keyboard with single-key PCBs.

  13. Sadek Baroudi is having fun with led rings, this time on his ffkb.

  14. AsherKeats' 42Azalia is a monoblock angled ortho keyboard created via a PCB generator.

  15. Inspired by old letterpress type cases, Attoparsec designed a keyboard based on the California Two Thirds layout.

  16. 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.

Read it here


Weekly keyboard art

Kick-ass keyboard image

HUMUS Radial — A desktop computer from a world where circular displays became commonplace. By prokhrvig (source).


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