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February 10, 2023

Issue 112 / Keyboard Builders' Digest

Keyboard Builders’ Digest #113

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Hey y'all,

This project is still in low-power mode because of personal difficulties, but here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week anyway:

  1. CCRX, a WK/WKL keyboard case open sourced by obitae.

  2. The Splaynck by kIt5uN3FP is a 40% unibody keyboard with symmetrical stagger.

  3. Rishikesh Vaishnav's Trackswitch Manuform introduces a mouse-level shift mechanism.

  4. A new 40-key version of the Fulcrum – by ghostfaceschiller.

  5. Weteor has published three new ortho keyboards with his hallmark offset spacebar forming the Orthocade family: his Brk Out is a 38-key board with split alphas and offset space. The Froggr is a 12u ortho with 48 keys. And the DigDug has some exploded key groups.

  6. Amano is an Alice layout keyboard designed by h40, with case and wrist rest files published.

  7. VFK-001 aka Valkyrie folding keyboard, a vertical Dactyl that can be folded up and taken with you. Shared by v0Che.

  8. A rectangular case for the ffkb shared by Sadek Baroudi.

  9. A pocket-sized chording typewriter with six keys by Benjamin Livermore – from the 1850s.


This issue’s supporters

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

(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)


Behind the Scenes

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

Sending out the newsletter is no longer free. Personal difficulties. Quick news. An unexpected encounter. Lots of new shops and discounts. New meetups.

Read it here


Weekly keyboard art

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Brain calibration by King Salmon. To spot the split keyboards check out the larger version.


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