Issue 78 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #78
Check out the new issue with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
Here are all the cool posts on DIY custom keyboards I thought were worth sharing this week:
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Richard Sutherland's framedeck is his take on the slab style computers like the TRS-80 model 100 – using the Framework motherboard.
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Geaz84's 3D-printed simplyKeeb S60ph is a 60-key, hotswappable, handwired split keyboard.
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A wooden keyboard by the5andmany with Alps switches, hand-filed switch plate, and some WIP photos.
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Keebio turned 5 this month, and Danny put together a timeline with all his keyboard releases.
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0xCB Pluto is a Pro Micro compatible controller designed by 0xCB-dev.
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Keyboard Layouter is a KiCad plugin by yskoht to place switch footprints in the location specified by KLE JSON files.
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The BFY-1 (the beefy one) by bad1o8o is a 18x6 ortho with case STLs.
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A gummy o-ring mount case for the CIY Tester 68 keyboard by RogerArbogast.
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The elusive CPT Phoenix Jr word processor keyboard spotted by catsontuesday.
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Finally, the IBM 5100 is one of the many "first" portable computers (1975). Shared by Crul_.
This issue’s supporters
PCBWay, splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, @kaleid1990, Cerakey, Clickety Split, ghsear.ch, cdc, Sean Grady, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, KEEBD, Nuno Leitano, Spencer Blackwood, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Yuan Liu, Davidjohn Gerena, Alexey Alekhin & Fabian Suceveanu.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Behind the Scenes
This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series:
Newsletter subscriptions and postcards, new donor, trivia of the week, bidding for a HP 9810A.
Weekly keyboard art
An actual artwork by Paul Chan titled Oh why so serious? (source & info).