Issue 108 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #108
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Hey y'all,
This is probably the last issue of 2022. Happy holiday season for you. And here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
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From the Advent Calendar: Simon, co-founder of FK, looks back on 2022 with many custom keycap projects.
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This year, /r/MechanicalKeyboards has undergone many significant changes — moderator Dryver sums up what happened.
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A bit of basic keyboard science by nerdbude of the CCH podcast.
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Creator Dénes Bán wrote about how his Absolem keyboard turned into Ergogen, an all-purpose ergo keyboard generator.
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Tamas Dovenyi, that’s me, sums up one year of kbd.news touching on a wide range of topics from visitor stats to new features.
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Apsu shared her experience going from curious about alternate keyboard layouts to accidentally being a prolific layout designer.
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And some new projects: The mask-2.0.0 by madbadmax is a 4x6 split keyboard with Cherry MX-ULP switches.
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The Slant – a wireless split keyboard shared by darsor.
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And some older ones: Luna is a 30-key open-source wireless split by Mindhatch – with splay. And the Little Foot – a 45% ortholinear keyboard designed by The-Royal and built by wayduh.
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Tips: A two-part 3D printed case by hello_smbj without gluing/welding.
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Inspiration: The Flux keyboard sports magnetic switches above a Full HD display. Similarly to the Centerpiece by Finalmouse — another concept with a display below transparent keys (Hall effect switches will be an option in this case).
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, PCBWay, Aiksplace, @keebio, u/chad3814, @kaleid1990, MKUltra, Upgrade Keyboards, Sean Grady, Keebstuff, cdc, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, KEEBD, kiyejoco, Jacob Mikesell, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, Joel Simpson, @therick0996, littlemer-the-second, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Christian Lo, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Daniel Nikolov, Skyler Thuss, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, Davidjohn Gerena, Fabian Suceveanu, Arto Olli, anonymous, Mats Faugli, 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 updates, etc.
Weekly keyboard art
Keebs by the pool. By vodan (source).