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January 6, 2023

Issue 110 / Keyboard Builders' Digest

Keyboard Builders’ Digest #110

Kick-ass cover image

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. New year, new Atreyu. Rev2 with choc spacing by jcliment.

  2. Ostrich – a diodeless monoblock keyboard with splayed pinky columns by keyboarddweebs.

  3. Pierce 2.0 is a semi-wireless split by durken1.

  4. Sadek Baroudi shared his KLOR variant with KS-27 switches.

  5. A noname 5x14 ortho keyboard with underside socketed STM32 Blackpill – open sourced by steven3051.

  6. Tewtham added a joystick to his vertical TypeSafe keyboard.

  7. Some new variations of the Thumbs Up! by u/ak66666. Low profile and multiple MCU options.

  8. Kamakura-gū Lion Head macropad by hide-key sporting a XIAO RP2040 controller and encoders.

  9. Marcin Wichary's upcoming book on typewriters and keyboards, Shift Happens, has a dedicated site now.

  10. The NK Cream+ switches from NovelKeys come with different inserts that alter the sound profile.

  11. A Bioshock inspired art deco macropad case by ZackGear.


This issue’s supporters

splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, @kaleid1990, MKUltra, Upgrade Keyboards, Sean Grady, Keebstuff, ghsear.ch, cdc, KEEBD, u/motfalcon, Jacob Mikesell, Bob Cotton, kiyejoco, Richard Sutherland, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, littlemer-the-second, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Christian Lo, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Skyler Thuss, Caleb Rand, Davidjohn Gerena, Fabian Suceveanu, Arto Olli, anonymous, Hating TheFruit, Mats Faugli.

(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)


Behind the Scenes

This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series:

Ongoing projects, Kamakura, new year's resolution, etc.

Read it here


Weekly keyboard art

Kick-ass keyboard image

“An export version of a Soviet microcomputer from the 2060s” by prokhorvig (source).


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