Issue 71 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
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** Keyboard Buildersâ Digest / Issue 71
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And here are the DIY keyboard related posts I thought were worth sharing this week: 1. Hanachi’s Ergotonic F-24 (https://kbd.news/Ergotonic-F-24-1331.html) comes with a unique adjustable centerpiece making this keyboard split or monoblock on demand. 2. Lyso1’s LCK75 (https://kbd.news/LCK75-SL-1328.html) PCB updated, tweaked and republished by short_lurker. 3. MomonaBoy’s Preonic + Plank (https://kbd.news/Preonic-Plank-1326.html) combo became his ultimate gaming keyboard. 4. The Gherkin++ (https://kbd.news/Gherkin-1325.html) is bgkendall’s approach to augment the classic 3x10 layout. 5. Christian Lo’s banime40 (https://kbd.news/Banime40-1334.html) is a versatile ortho PCB with 24 possible layouts. 6. Dmitry Cherepanov’s private museum of retro computers (https://kbd.news/Mariupol-computer-museum-destroyed-1327.html) in Mariupol, Ukraine, has been destroyed. 7. LPX (https://kbd.news/LPX-keycap-1324.html) is an FDM-printer optimized Choc keycap design by levpopov. 8. Reviung41 with a twist (https://kbd.news/Reviung41-case-1332.html) â Delta 3D printed case and rotary mod by Stove24. 9. The QAZer Beam (https://kbd.news/QAZer-Beam-1333.html) is a QAZ in a beamspring-like case designed by Pocketfullofbugs. 10. A Dick Smith Cat (https://kbd.news/Dick-Smith-Cat-1335.html) a.k.a. VTech Laser 3000 repaired and posted by lizardb0y. 11. lBlanc99 revived and restored a dead Costar CSK-7101N (https://kbd.news/Costar-CSK-7101N-1336.html) keyboard. 12. Keycaps with interchangeable tops (https://kbd.news/Interchangeable-tops-1329.html) posted by hunghingdailo. 13. Combining woodworking with electronics, mw33212 made a walnut cyberdeck (https://kbd.news/Wooden-cyberdeck-1330.html) with a cheap foldable keyboard.
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** Weekly keyboard art
Shelley Lake (http://shelleylake.com/about) at Digital Productions in 1983 choreographing a scene from The Last Starfighter (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/) (source (https://www.reddit.com/r/cassettefuturism/comments/tmn70a/shelley_lake_at_digital_productions_in_1983/) ).
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