Issue 116 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #116
Check out the new issue with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
This week I merged the two newsletters. If you subscribed prior to early 2022, this may be your first newsletter sent by Buttondown instead of MailChimp. Welcome! More on this and how you can help me to cover the newsletter fee in this week's editorial.
Here are some useful and/or cool posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
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The split Bloq 36 by Kunsteak features thumb clusters on a lower plane.
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u/jammerkiai's KaRP2040 is an RP2040-Zero based unibody split keyboard.
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Smudge is a custom 3D-printed keyboard design by Sandalmoth – handwired with curved keywell.
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Sporewoh's babbit36 is an ultraportable wireless ortholinear keyboard.
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Evgenii Vilkov's Smol is a split prototype with a cool sandwich case.
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Felix Kuehling's Mantis v0.2, sporting HEX keycaps, has now PCBs on two levels to imitate tenting.
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An open-source 65% keyboard with integrated trackball: dynamis by bbrfkr.
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A Choc-spaced Corne with XIAO controllers: Abomination v1.2 by OrangeCrusader.
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Klesh Wong's PSKeeb2 is a portable split keyboard with tenting, rotary encoder and trackpoint.
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A tiny Choc-spaced macropad with encoder – Narfpad by ADreamOfStorms.
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GrO3veman designed an arcade fight pad dubbed Stress.
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LostPistachio shared his online Dactyl generator – with fast previews and STL export.
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URSA is a new keycap profile designed for Topre keyboards – a collab between 23 Andreas and FKcaps.
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Two uniform keycap profiles with a retro square base: Doys by Deadline.Studio and BLOCKs by HIBI.
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A typing rhythm game by charitea12: Typing Tempo.
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An about 10 cm wide 40% keyboard by juskim: tinyKeys with Gerbers.
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Designed by ItsBluu, the Aloidia v1 is a wireless solar split keyboard with lots of hotswap components.
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CHOMPI is a cute looper with mechanical keys – as inspiration.
Behind the Scenes
This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series:
Newsletters merged, new shops & meetups, small developments, in the mailbox, etc.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, Aiksplace, @keebio, MKUltra, Upgrade Keyboards, @kaleid1990, Sean Grady, Cyboard, cdc, KEEBD, Jacob Mikesell, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, littlemer-the-second, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Christian Lo, Jason Hazel, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Spencer Blackwood, Daniel Nikolov, Yuan Liu, u/eighty58five, Skyler Thuss, Caleb Rand, Davidjohn Gerena, Mats Faugli, Arto Olli, Fabian Suceveanu, anonymous, Hating TheFruit, Matthias Goffette, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
Mona Lisa overdrive cyberdeck by Arthur Haefeli (Paveway Design).