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August 12, 2022

Issue 90 / Keyboard Builders' Digest

Keyboard Builders’ Digest #90

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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:

  1. Marco's DASBOB is a 36-key diodeless split with splay and buzzer.

  2. Sonal Pinto's Purple Owl is an all-1u, uniformly staggered 60% keyboard.

  3. Kretsträd is a Seeeduino Xiao BLE based 34-keys split keyboard by u/wj-zhe – running ZMK.

  4. The Phaethon by u/mrninhvn is a through-hole keyboard with a solar panel – designed by .

  5. Avlo44 is a unibody split with exposed diodes designed by u/jrp22.

  6. The UniChunky by u/tenstaana is basically two Chunkies fused together.

  7. Ursula is a low-profile 5-column split keyboard by u/jamesmnw.

  8. The working title of u/Zonattu's 40% Alice-ish PCB project is Liisa.

  9. An experiment in vapor polishing ABS keycaps – by u/mmalluck.

  10. u/autonomouschair spotted a gorgeous Tandberg Data keyboard in the Oslo National Museum.

  11. FGHTR SWTCH is a unique artisan keycap housing by mecxlabs.


This issue’s supporters

PCBWay, splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, Aiksplace, u/chad3814, @keebio, @kaleid1990, Sean Grady, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, cdc, kiyejoco, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, KEEBD, @therick0996, MKUltra, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Davidjohn Gerena, Alexey Alekhin, Fabian Suceveanu & Upgrade Keyboards.

You are awesome! Thanks everyone!


Behind the Scenes

This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series:

Complaints, shops closing, donors leaving, new vendors, new meetups, etc.

Read it here


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