Issue 55 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
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** Keyboard Buildersâ Digest / Issue 55
https://kbd.news
Check the new issue (https://kbd.news/issue/55/) with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
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Huge thanks to everyone who donated a few bucks or became a regular sponsor (http://buymeacoffee.com/dovenyi) last week! It means a lot!
And here are the keyboard related posts I thought were worth sharing: 1. Jim Merricks White published a new member of his 30% bugs family: the Flea (https://kbd.news/The-Flea-1126.html) . 2. Pangaea (https://kbd.news/Pangaea-project-1130.html) , a split keyboard with mind-boggling adjustability, has advanced to rev.3. Co-designed by otahinosame, k2 and e3w2q. 3. The PicoSplit (https://kbd.news/PicoSplit-1119.html) is a 3D printed, handwired split keyboard by Andreas Känner featuring a custom firmware written in CircuitPython. 4. The Keyboard Advent Calendar (https://kbd.news/Japanese-Keyboard-Advent-Calendar-1131.html) features blog posts by revered authors of the Japanese keyboard community. 5. Ladispad (https://kbd.news/Ladispad-1120.html) is an open-source 11 key macropad by ajmandourah with rotary encoders and an OLED screen. 6. A great photolog by SandwichRising on making a custom PCB (https://kbd.news/Making-the-Keeb68-1125.html) and wooden case. 7. A cool keyboard salvaged from a nuclear missile silo (https://kbd.news/Nuclear-keyboard-1124.html) converted by Pointless Tinkering. 8. Don tries to standardize sound tests with his testing rig (https://kbd.news/Switch-sound-tester-1128.html) . 9. An interactive configurator (https://kbd.news/Keycap-set-configurator-1127.html) for a keycap set GB by catecholate. 10. A quick teardown of the Outemu clicky optoelectric switches (https://kbd.news/Outemu-clicky-optoelectric-switches-1122.html) by Chyrosran22. 11. History: The classy IBM SCAMP (https://kbd.news/IBM-SCAMP-1121.html) , a prototype to showcase the APL programming language (1973). 12. Is this ergonomic workplace (https://kbd.news/Old-sci-fi-or-futuristic-office-1123.html) from an old Soviet sci-fi or an exhibition back in 1969? 13. HHKB 25th Anniversary Celebration (https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/3500297/B72CD668480E0C1E204CB46B1E7459DA) . A virtual event with raffle (for US folks only).
Thanks for reading. This newsletter is free, but compiling it takes a lot of my time. You can help it keep going: forward it to a friend whoâd like it, or consider supporting it on buymeacoffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dovenyi/) .
** This issueâs supporters
splitkb.com, Jeremy Kitchen (https://keyboard.kitchen/) , AikenJG, @keebio (https://keeb.io) , Timo, ghsear.ch, @kaleid1990, u/chad3814, Eugenie, sebastian siggerud, cdc, Jim, Keycapsss.com, kiyejoco, faso, qdw, Bob Cotton, Aleks, Mark, Brickbots & an anonymous donor.
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** Behind the Scenes
This weekâs topics of my behind the scenes series on BMC (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dovenyi) :
âTesting the Adafruit KB2040, CircuitPython and KMK. New guides. I won again. Giveaway & Issue #54 follow-up. BMC chaos.â
Read it here (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dovenyi/behind-scenes-issue-55)
** Weekly keyboard art
Sorry, didnât find any keyboard art this week. Or did I? This is the Jawn Founderâs Edition (https://keeb.io/products/jawn-fe) macropad I won from Don (TheBoard (https://theboard.libsyn.com/) ) and Danny (Keebio (https://keeb.io/) ).
** And finally, the news with picsâ¦
Check the latest issue (https://kbd.news/issue/55/)
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