Issue 84 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #84
Check out the new issue with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
PSA: Still on holiday but the giveaway continues (sort of): win another KBD.NEWS metal artisan, courtesy of metalkeyboards.no.
And here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
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Pete Johanson published his Zaphod Lite, a hand solderable version of the original Zaphod – a feature-rich low-pro wireless monoblock split.
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Max published a nice video on designing and building his 26-key minimalist split, the LHM keyboard.
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A pretty unconventional handwired wireless noname 30% — perpetrated by u/frozeninfate.
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OpenEx is an open-source QMK-powered trackball by u/Skribbles4420 – inspired by the Kensington Expert.
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There's a keyboard contest (sort of) going on at Hackaday. Check it out, especially if you have an ongoing project.
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Drop's DCX keycaps — the ones controversially named MT2 in the initial announcement — reviewed by u/ConcreteSnake.
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Something different: forged carbon keycaps by u/GalaxKeys.
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MoErgo's Stephen announced an anodized aluminum version of both the MBK and MCC profiles.
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A 1984 Luxor ABC77 keyboard from the Swedish army posted by u/sadolf.
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A laser etched custom low-profile MCC set: Keeblurk by u/keeblurk.
This issue’s supporters
PCBWay, splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, @kaleid1990, motfalcon, Sean Grady, ghsear.ch, cdc, 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:
New discounts, new donor, something in the mailbox, giveaway results, KBD.NEWS is in holiday mode.
Weekly keyboard art
There were multiple contenders for this week’s keyboard art column — some of them will hopefully appear as dedicated posts in the near future — but I chose this one by terror_alpha (source).