Issue 87 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #87
Check out the new issue with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
Here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
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Janus is a PCB-resourceful 34-key split keyboard by u/skarrmann.
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No Faff is an open-hardware 24-key macropad with cool backplate art – designed by Kfir.
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Keybon is a customizable OLED macropad that adapts to the apps you use – designed by Max.K.
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Joshua Broekhuijsen's Dichotomy is a mouse-keyboard hybrid.
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Hackaday' Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals Contest is over. Check out the winners.
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Seeed Fusion launched a new keyboard contest with free prototyping and nice prizes. Click for the details.
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The Smiling Orca, shared by leo_beekeeb, is a low-profile keycap optimized for Choc spacing.
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A 3D-printable Lily58 case with STLs – designed and published by DCharlo.
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WDA is a sculpted, spherical, middle-height keycap profile. The first set is available at zFrontier.
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Loitering_Potato posted his find and commenters tried to figure out what it is.
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Cipulot posted some photos of his latest find too: an electro-capacitive Sony BKE-9400A.
This issue’s supporters
PCBWay, splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, @kaleid1990, Sean Grady, u/motfalcon, ghsear.ch, cdc, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, KEEBD, Joel Simpson, Nuno Leitano, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Davidjohn Gerena, Alexey Alekhin, Upgrade Keyboards, Per Weirauch & Fabian Suceveanu.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Behind the Scenes
This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series:
Quick news, Issue 86 follow-up, vendor database update, new supporters, etc.
Weekly keyboard art
“Tweaking keys” posted by @laurentdelrey (source).