Issue 82 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #82
Check out the new issue with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
Again, there's a giveaway in this week’s editorial: you can win a cool kbd.news metal artisan offered by metalkeyboards.no.
And now the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
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earth_hair made a moon-themed cast aluminum keyboard case for a design and manufacturing class.
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Kyria stagger, Corne thumb cluster, Ferris-inspired electronics: Phase by mjpauly.
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The Poly Keyboard by thpoll has tiny OLED displays in each keycap to showcase the actual function of the keys.
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A wireless-only cross between the Sweep and the Corne: Swept Corne by Additional-Stock3711.
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The "IBM Model Pi" by rengarett is simply a Model M converted via a Pi Pico and KMK.
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A custom 3D-printed unibody split keyboard by justsunone – with video tour. And another one unibody split prototype by u/levpopov with keywell— little bit of Dactyl, a little bit of Corne, and a *lot* of trackpad space..
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u/StickersDrgn designed and shared a custom ortholinear-ish PCB to fit a Bakeneko65 case.
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Try-A-Dactyl is an OpenSCAD-based tool by wolfwood to programmatically design splits with keywell (aka dactyls).
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On the two-part OEM keycap profile manufactured by Keytok – with some insider info.
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HuB is a lesser-known sculpted and spherical keycap profile – designed by trashman back in 2016.
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A minimal controller sporting a RP2040 chip with all the 30 GPIO pins broken out – designed by Technoblogy.
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Durock came out with some new hotswap sockets in vivid colors, and ones, Chosfox announced transparent hotswap sockets.
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Related news: PCBBUY experimented with transparent (glass) PCBs.
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Finally, Miryoku, Manna Harbour's popular keyboard layout, is now available for ZMK — the wireless-first keyboard firmware.
This issue’s supporters
PCBWay, splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, @kaleid1990, Clickety Split, ghsear.ch, cdc, Sean Grady, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Nuno Leitano, KEEBD, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Spencer Blackwood, 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:
Lots of new discounts, ceramic caps first impressions, giveaway results, and win a KBD.NEWS metal artisan! :D
Weekly keyboard art
I had a lot of contenders for this week’s keyboard art column — but then came metalkeyboards.no... :D
