Issue 118 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest #118
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Hey y'all,
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Here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
- T-rex – an open-source through-hole ortholinear keyboard by Thunderguts13.
- kowgary16 is a low-profile ortholinear macropad by sporewoh, a matching companion to his CFX-spaced low-pro ortho bancouver40 keyboard, which is also available as a kit/GB.
- Urchin is a wireless-only Swoop-derivative open-sourced by duckyb.
- TheStuChef's 58-key low-pro ChonkV is based on the chocV but features, among other things, a number row.
- Fmcraft presented a magnetic tenting system using mainly off-the-shelf components.
- DaoShield by Mposiblee – an aluminum case for the Dao keyboard.
- ADreamOfStorms released the files of narfkb, a split with RP2040K-Zero, encoder and an array of tiny switches.
- A 3D printed Dolch Planck keyboard by sohke with PCB and STLs: Dolothy.
- Travis Mick published his low-pro split egg58 – along the lines of the Ergodox/Sofle/Moonlander.
- Takeshi Nishio's Sandy is a multi-PCB approach to mimic a keywell on his Jones keyboard.
- Piotr Wilk published a small BLE macropad sporting HEX keycaps.
- I've been playing a completely typing-controlled real-time strategy game: Touch Type Tale by Pumpernickel Studio.
- Gakuto Mikumo introduced his Atalante, a unibody angled split keyboard with arrow clusters on both sides.
- Elecrow announced a month of special promotion for mechanical keyboard enthusiasts.
Behind the Scenes
This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series:
TTT, new shops, meetups, in the 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, Richard Sutherland, littlemer-the-second, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Christian Lo, Joel Simpson, Jason Hazel, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Spencer Blackwood, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Yuan Liu, Skyler Thuss, Caleb Rand, Karl Berggren, Mats Faugli, Schnoor Typography, Davidjohn Gerena, Fabian Suceveanu, anonymous, Hating TheFruit, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell, Matthias Goffette, Lim Soon Nicholai Sim.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
Cordless phone by Takenobu Igarashi, 1989 (source).