Issue 77 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #77
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Hey y'all,
Here are all the cool posts on DIY custom keyboards I thought were worth sharing this week:
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The cute 34-key Wubbo is an open-source wireless split keyboard by cacheworks.
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Diitsuku designed and shared a threaded Dactyl Flex with a clever mechanism to adjust the tenting angle.
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LoyalPotato's open-source Yggdrasil is a 36-key split keyboard with some extreme pinky splay.
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An update to illness72's original design: palette-system shared elephant42 panda, a new version with an I/O expander.
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Telzo2000's cool640, an ortho macropad/split, supports controllers with both Pro Micro and Pico footprint.
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Gurtmail published a 3D-printed tilted stem for Choc keycaps.
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For his 3D printed low-pro keyboard, Pavlo Khmel uses self-made double-shot keycaps.
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Matrix series: The improved square matrix is actually a round-robin matrix handling the same number of switches – but with less diodes.
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Spotting: A Sabre Edit video editor by Grass Valley Group. Posted by u/iaakki.
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The КТ-У1 is a chunky reed-switch keyboard from Soviet times – posted by psych_1337.
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WunWae's Prism is a uniquely shaped input device meant to be a gaming controller.
This issue’s supporters
PCBWay, splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @kaleid1990, @keebio, Clickety Split, ghsear.ch, cdc, Sean Grady, Bob Cotton, kiyejoco, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Nuno Leitano, KEEBD, Jason Hunter, Lev Popov, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Davidjohn Gerena, Christian Mladenov, Alexey Alekhin, Fabian Suceveanu & Paul Kischlat — sorry Paul, I forgot to add your name last week.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Behind the Scenes
This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series:
Improved square matrix, experiments and research, covid, listing of the week, newsletter issue, etc.
Weekly keyboard art
A classic composition: bottom shot of Hanachi’s Pangaea keyboard with cat leg (source).