Issue 125 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest #125
Check out the new issue with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
Feel free to tip me off about your keyboard projects. With all the new r/mk-ergomk substitutes in the fediverse this is the best way to make sure I learn about and feature all your cool keyboards.
And here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this time:
- The Osprette V3 is the third revision of Sam Mohr's 34-key unibody keyboard.
- After teasing it earlier, Jason Hazel redesigned and published the Chaz, a cute Choc-spaced QAZ-alike.
- An open-source and easy-to-build steno keyboard for use with Plover: Peridot by Ewen Cluney.
- A quick retrospective post about Le Chiffre, a minimalist monoblock split designed and open sourced by tominabox1 – 3 years ago.
- Flow is a product line of sculpted split keyboards by Jason Allan – with the flow-MX36 being released and the flow-choc40 in development.
- Kiencovn shared the files of his matmat35, a cute handwired keyboard with a QAZ/HHKB layout.
- A new RP2040-based controller by Keebio for handwiring keyboards: Stampy.
- Created by Hammer & Buger.Work, CRP-X is a new uniform keycap profile with stepped modifiers and flippable caps.
- The Siemens T4200 is a kick-ass electronic screen-typewriter system from the '80s with a not less kick-ass keyboard: the Siemens T4000.
- Alex is working on his Theseus75, a 75% split mechanical keyboard kit with USB hub and LEMO interconnection.
Behind the Scenes
This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series:
New realities, running into r/mk refugees in unexpected places, Snow White's coffin, Zombie Kitchen, imgur fame, etc.
And the previous one which you might have missed in the absence of a newsletter:
Reddit meltdown and its effects on kbd.news. Send me your projects. New shops, discounts, meetups, etc.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, u/chad3814, MKUltra, Aiksplace, @keebio, Upgrade Keyboards, @kaleid1990, Sean Grady, Cyboard, Jacob Mikesell, KEEBD, cdc, Jason Hazel, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, littlemer-the-second, Bob Cotton, kiyejoco, Christian Lo, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Richard Sutherland, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Daniel Nikolov, Spencer Blackwood, Skyler Thuss, u/eighty58five, Yuan Liu, Caleb Rand, Schnoor Typography, Mats Faugli, James McCleese, Davidjohn Gerena, Benjamin Bell, Matthias Goffette, Hating TheFruit, Fabian Suceveanu, Ergohaven, anonymous, Alex Havermale, Spencer Dabell.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
Treadstone32 posted by Talpkeyboard (source).