Issue 117 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #117
Check out the new issue with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
Thanks to your donations in these past few days, half of the annual newsletter fee is covered. If you'd like to help, feel free to send me some bucks for the other half. ;)
Here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
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Sonal Pinto's low-profile 65% keyboard, Mt. Choc, features a cool digital pin badge.
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A self-designed 132-key keyboard by dangerbobgames built along the lines of the classic IBM Model M 122.
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An open-source split by Christopher Hoage loosely based on the Ergodash: Spleeb.
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Some updates to the Pica40 – v2.1 published by zzeneg.
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The 47-key handwired HiveMind by Protieusz has an ambidextrous numpad in the middle.
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A 35% unibody split by somepin: La Lettre is a 3D-printed, handwired mechanical keyboard.
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Flying fox aka Pteropus – a unibody split keyboard open-sourced by hulapig.
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WolfIcefang's test bench for various column curvatures, Dactyl Chimera V3, is here!
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Kunsteak's Briq is a wireless-only split ortho keyboard.
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After last week's post, Kate of HIBI got back to me with more info on her uniform BLOCK keycap profile.
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A custom gasked mount Draculad case shared by chewiedies.
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Some thoughts in defense of the often ridiculed Honeywell H316 kitchen computer.
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A photodump of my latest acquisition, a nice Memorex Model 88 from 1987.
Behind the Scenes
This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series:
New shops, couple of exciting things in my mailbox, developments, etc.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, MKUltra, Upgrade Keyboards, @kaleid1990, Sean Grady, Cyboard, Jacob Mikesell, cdc, KEEBD, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, kiyejoco, littlemer-the-second, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Christian Lo, Joel Simpson, Jason Hazel, Christian Mladenov, Lev Popov, Spencer Blackwood, Daniel Nikolov, Yuan Liu, Skyler Thuss, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, Gordon Diggs, Mats Faugli, Schnoor Typography, Davidjohn Gerena, Jaehee Moon, Fabian Suceveanu, anonymous, Hating TheFruit, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell, Andrew Gates, Fernando Pazos Estévez, Matthias Goffette, Vince Satsong.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
IBM System/370 with colour terminal at NASA, 1983 (source).