Issue 80 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #80
Check out the new issue with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
PSA: Please at least scan through this week’s editorial since you can win a crazy Megalodon macropad offered by KeebMonkey.
And now the posts I thought were worth sharing:
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Nora is a family of low-profile narrow-pitch keyboards designed by Takeshi Nishio.
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Aki27's cocot46plus is a monoblock angled mechanical keyboard with a beefy 34mm trackball, rotary encoder, and OLED display — and duplex matrix.
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The wireless gurt-portable is Gurtmail's first keyboard design with a dongle and pseudo-keywell via 3D-printed stem adapters.
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Another wireless one is the vertical Dactyl TypeSafe designed and shared by tewtham.
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Jim Jackson created a macropad with customizable profiles read from an SD card. Cool.
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Exciting low-pro POM keycaps on the horizon. MBK Convex caps are a joint effort by Max “MBK” Burger and Stephen “MoErgo” Cheng.
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Matt3o announced that his WIP MTNU keycap profile will be manufactured by GMK.
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Umō by Ergorius is a top-mount 3D-printable case for the 40% Yasui PCB.
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I bought a vintage 60% Kontron PSI 80 a few weeks ago and decided it's time to clean it, investigate its interior, and share some photos.
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Salvaged by NintendoDuck from a recycling center: a cool Fujitsu keyboard of uncertain origin.
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Finally: cute Icelandic horses happily typing on a big tailor-made keyboard... horse-sized of course.
This issue’s supporters
PCBWay, splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, @kaleid1990, Clickety Split, ghsear.ch, cdc, Sean Grady, Bob Cotton, kiyejoco, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Nuno Leitano, KEEBD, 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:
Issue #79 follow-up, godfather of steno, lots of news discounts, purchasing the Kontron, raffle prize & rules.
Weekly keyboard art
Sorry, I had no better contender this week. :D 40-year-old pink springs being cleaned — from my Kontron (source).