Issue 56 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
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** Keyboard Buildersâ Digest / Issue 56
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Check the new issue (https://kbd.news/issue/56/) with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hi |FNAME|,
Iâm leaving BMC which is a real mess these days. Iâve set up a donation page (https://kbd.news/donate) for those who want to become regular supporters or just want to drop some bucks in my tip jar.
And the keyboard related posts I thought were worth sharing: 1. Samoklava (https://kbd.news/Samoklava-a-generative-split-1142.html) is a generative split keyboard design with a noteworthy workflow by Leo Batyuk. 2. Hillside (https://kbd.news/Hillside-keyboard-1133.html) is an open-source split ergonomic keyboard with Choc-spaced keys, quite aggressive stagger, four key thumb arc and break-off pinky column. 3. The Unibodysweep (https://kbd.news/Unibodysweep-1141.html) is â surprise!â a unibody Sweep/Ferris by Lucordes. 4. Kyek published his open-source Eternal Keypad (https://kbd.news/Eternal-Keypad-1134.html) , a gaming keypad for lefties. 5. A gasket mount high profile case (https://kbd.news/Lily58-gasket-mount-high-profile-case-1140.html) for the Lily58 from the workbench of f_pazos. With free STLs. 6. The RP2040-Zero (https://kbd.news/RP2040-Zero-1137.html) is a tiny RP2040 based controller with USB-C and 20(+9) GPIO pins. 7. Meanwhile in Japan: A great write-up on the evolution and ergonomics of the saddle keycap profile (https://kbd.news/Saddle-keycap-profile-1143.html) . 8. Crazy ideas: A macropad (https://kbd.news/Turn-on-off-clickiness-1135.html) by Anis-mit-I that is switchable between clicky and linear. 9. As Pylon points out, your custom keyboard is probably illegal (https://kbd.news/Radio-interference-regulations-and-keyboards-1138.html) . A long post on radio interference testing regulations. 10. Stenotypy (aka Spellbook) (https://kbd.news/Stenotypy-Spellbook-1139.html) is a true QWERTY steno dictionary with a couple thousand entries. Shared by solomonkimrey. 11. The Soviet SKALA (https://kbd.news/SKALA-computer-system-1136.html) : the process computer for the RBMK Nuclear Reactor at Chernobyl NPP.
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.
** This issueâs supporters
(Honestly, due to the chaos at BMC I have 3 supporters at the moment but I copy this list from last week anyway.)
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.
** Behind the Scenes
This weekâs topics of my behind the scenes series:
âVisitor stats updated, leaving BMC, new support options, mailbox report, Reddit recap shock.â
Read it here (https://kbd.news/Behind-the-Scenes-of-Issue-56-1144.html)
** Weekly keyboard art
Set design for a low budget cyberpunk film “Omega Point Zero” by the creator of âAlien snails from Uranusâ and âThe Weedwhacker massacreâ (source (https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/retcm9/my_set_design_for_my_low_budget_cyberpunk_film/) ). I love these titles. :D
** And finally, the news with picsâ¦
Check the latest issue (https://kbd.news/issue/56/)
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