December 27, 2021

Issue 58 / Keyboard Builders' Digest

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** Keyboard Builders’ Digest / Issue 58

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Check thenew issue (https://kbd.news/issue/58/) with awesome projects, tips and ideas!

Hi |FNAME|,

You wanna help me with a little prank and win a kit from keeb.io? Hear me out: 1. Dress up your keyboard for Christmas (“something festive”). 2. Take a photo of it. 3. Send the photo to TheBoard podcast (the.board.podcast at gmail.com).

That’s it basically. You can find more details in this week’s editorial (https://kbd.news/Behind-the-Scenes-of-Issue-58-1166.html) or over at TheBoard (https://theboard.libsyn.com/) . And don’t forget to check the next episode for the winners.

And now some keyboard related posts I thought were worth sharing: 1. The Kleks keyoard (https://kbd.news/Kleks-keyboard-1161.html) is a low-pro monoblock split by Radomir Dopieralski with extreme pinky offset. 2. The cat (https://kbd.news/The-cat-project-1156.html) is a gamepad or a shortcut-tool by Ape_Devil – with STLs and building documentation. 3. The RP2040 Stamp (https://kbd.news/RP2040-Stamp-1162.html) is a RP2040-based controller with LiPo charger and Neopixel – breaking out all GPIO pins. 4. A DIY keyswitch force-curve measuring machine (https://kbd.news/Force-curve-measuring-machine-1165.html) by romly to be presented at Comiket C99. 5. Chyrosran22 reviews the keyless orbiTouch (https://kbd.news/Orbitouch-keyless-keyboard-review-1158.html) device – and is not really impressed. 6. ThereminGoat reviews the SP Star Sacramento (https://kbd.news/SP-Star-Sacramento-switch-1163.html) switches. 7. An open-source 3D-printed case for the Sweep (https://kbd.news/Sweep-case-1160.html) keyboard, designed by Knifa. 8. Zeal Clickiez (https://kbd.news/Zeal-Clickiez-1164.html) featuring a secondary spring leaf which can turn these clickies into tactiles or linears. 9. Results of a 3-months long test (https://kbd.news/Keycap-bleach-fading-test-1159.html) investigating the effect of sunlight on an anodized keycap’s color – committed by flehrad. 10. The Touchboard (https://kbd.news/Touchboard-1157.html) is an all-in-one human input device concept by the German Butterfly Company.

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 who’d like it, or consider supporting it (https://kbd.news/donate) .

** This issue’s supporters

Thanks a lot! You are the real heroes!

@keebio (https://keeb.io) , Timo, u/chad3814, @kaleid1990, Eugenie, cdc, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, Davidjohn Gerena, Hannes Rahm, James Erickson, Ryan Osborne.

** Behind the Scenes

This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series:

“Quick news, TheBoard December competition, a telnet based literary magazine, etc.”

Read it here (https://kbd.news/Behind-the-Scenes-of-Issue-57-1155.html)

** Weekly keyboard art

New Session: a telnet-based literary magazine running on an ADM-5 (source (https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/rm9lf6/just_launched_the_second_issue_of_new_session_a/) ).

** And finally, the news with pics…

Check the latest issue (https://kbd.news/issue/58/)

If you’re seeing this newsletter for the first time, you can subscribe here (http://eepurl.com/hn9_v5) .

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