Issue #163 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #163
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips, ideas, meetups, discount codes, etc!
Hey y'all,
Here are some of the posts I thought were worth sharing this time:
- An MX-compatible replacement PCB for the IBM Model M122: M122ION CONTROL by dj_edit - with buzzer, solenoid, display, etc.
- A modular keyboard prototype for full VIK experience: Trio by zzeneg.
- Protieusz shared Ballz-Out, a Lesovoz style ortho board with trackball and trackpad support. And the author's NewType-36 is here already, a derivative of the nowt36 - with trackball too.
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Mike Barnoski published his first open-source keyboard: the minimal split BR/KN with trackballs on both sides.
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Inspiration: A Lego-compatible switch plate by joshmarinacci for a handwired macropad.
- For keymap wizards: I loved reading about the hybrid repeat / magic key implementation by empressabyss. Turn same-finger keypresses into inner rolls.
- Handwired: dove36 by doedelsson, a skeletyl/reviung41 hybrid.
- Cipulot's EC PCBs in stock at CannonKeys. (Here is a piece about these projects from the pen of the author in the 2022 MK advent calendar.)
- Commercial: ZodiarkPi by S_Dev is here.
Much more resources in my weekly editorial write-up, MK meetup calendar and keyboard shop database - with 500+ keyboard vendors!
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Weekly keyboard art
I like the silk screen of Menbou's Bottleneck46
This issue’s supporters
Ashkeebs, splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, ZSA Technology Labs, Aiksplace, @keebio, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, Sean Grady, Jason Hazel, Jacob Mikesell, @kaleid1990, kiyejoco, Mechboards, KEEBD, littlemer-the-second, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, TurtleKeebs, @therick0996, Richard Sutherland, Joel Simpson, Christian Mladenov, Lev Popov, Daniel Nikolov, Schnoor Typography, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, Skyler Thuss, Yuan Liu, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell, Ben M, Spencer Dabell, zzeneg, TALPKEYBOARD, Anatolii Smolianinov, Matthias Goffette, Penk Chen, Hating TheFruit, Felicitas R., Vitali Haravy, Clacky, Davidjohn Gerena, Stefan S., anonymous, Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Brendan P., Shnobble, Mario S., Dylan Ingham, Gordon Diggs, Cloyce, s_p_l_o_d_e.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)