Issue 53 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
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** Keyboard Buildersâ Digest / Issue 53
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Check the new issue (https://kbd.news/issue/53/) with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
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Wow, KBD.news turned one this weekend! The anniversary giveaway (https://kbd.news/giveaway) is over, contacting winners is in progress. (Check your inbox and spam folder!) I’m glad the 27 prizes will go to 13 different countries.
Thanks again to all the sponsors, it was a pleasure to work with:
3DKeebs (https://3dkeebs.com) , Adafruit (https://adafruit.com/keebs) , Coffeekeys (https://coffeekeys.eu) , Dream Cables (https://dream-cables.com) , Keebmonkey (https://keebmonkey.com) , Keebstuff Kabelmanufaktur (https://keebstuff.com) , Mechbox (https://mechbox.co.uk) , onegritsandpaper (https://www.reddit.com/user/onegritsandpaper) , pkkeyboards (https://pkkeyboards.com/?ref=KBDNEWS) , Rectangles.store (https://rectangles.store) , SwitchCaptain (https://switchcaptain.com) & Unicorn Cables (https://unicorncables.com) .
Did you miss this giveaway? Check out the one organized by Scott at thocstock.com (https://thocstock.com/12-days) !
And here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week: 1. After almost two years of procrastination, I put together Azimuth (https://kbd.news/Azimuth-1101.html) , my handwired hotswap pseudosplit with an unreasonable amount of rotary encoders. Write-up (https://golem.hu/page/azimuth) and plate SVG on golem.hu. 2. The case files of Kolibri (https://kbd.news/Kolibri-keyboard-1093.html) , an Alice style design by kreme11, are open source now. 3. The Chocofly (https://kbd.news/Chocofly-1094.html) is a 60-key low-pro monoblock split by vitvlkv. 4. Do you mind some DIY trackball content? The Avocado 55 (https://kbd.news/Avocado55-trackball-1103.html) shared by J-Tech Creations, and a two-ball trackball (https://kbd.news/Two-ball-trackball-1102.html) by jfedor2. 5. Unkeyboard (https://kbd.news/Unkeyboard-1099.html) is a set of Python scripts for generating stacked acrylic cases for Atreus-style keyboards. Published by Mike Bannister. 6. The familiar Skådis pegboard (https://kbd.news/Sk-dis-made-keeb-friendly-1092.html) made keeb-friendly by using aquarium tubing. Committed by jk_pens. 7. LODGE, a cool makerspace in Tokyo, offering workshops where you can make your own keycaps from bottle caps (https://kbd.news/Keycaps-from-bottle-caps-1095.html) . 8. A cyberpunk OLED glitch animation (https://kbd.news/Cyberpunk-OLED-glitch-1098.html) by Aleks with open-source firmware and bitmap frames. 9. SharktasticA reworked his page on differences between and classifications of IBM Model M122s (https://kbd.news/IBM-Model-M122-classification-1100.html) . 10. The only known working Aesthedes (https://kbd.news/Aesthedes-2-1096.html) in the world. It took whizzi nearly a year to get this CAD/CAM system from 1985 to this state. 11. Finally, the Librascope TCT AN/UYQ-30 (https://kbd.news/Librascope-Tactical-Computer-Terminal-1097.html) is probably one of the very few terminals out there meeting nuclear survivability requirements. Posted by pburgomaster.
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** Behind the Scenes
This weekâs topics of my behind the scenes series on BMC (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dovenyi) :
â1 year anniversary. Behind the giveaway raffle. Issue 52 follow-up. Getting back to layout design. Working on a better method to create penalty tables for layout optimization.â
Read it here (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dovenyi/behind-scenes-issue-53)
** Weekly keyboard art
Gateron Ink Switch fan art by u/ISOganggang (source (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/qz5pcn/gateron_ink_switch_fan_art_oc_what_do_you_want_to/) ).
** And finally, the news with picsâ¦
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