Issue 79 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #79
Check out the new issue with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
Here are all the cool posts on DIY custom keyboards I thought were worth sharing this week:
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Fiðrildi is a monoblock angled keyboard “from Rivendell” – designed by ButteredBread5255.
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An open-source split ortho PCB by Cedutus, named after a Finnish dish: Lihis.
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The µ10 or Micro10 by dj_edit is a small 28-key keyboard with a big spacebar.
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Pee-two is a 2-key macropad with optional rotary encoder. Source files shared by pabile.
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Author MrZealot gave a talk on Ergogen at Free Software Conference. In addition, Ben Vallack came up with an in-depth walkthrough of his workflow, incorporating Ergogen.
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@tsukasa_metam's Cityscape48 is a pretty unique split keyboard with a multi-layer PCB construction to achieve a faux-keywell effect.
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Working on the next iteration of his Dactyl, spacecadetAlsoWizard used a sodalite sphere as trackball.
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Wrist-rest ideas: Customniches made a 3D-printed modular wrist-rest to fit his collection. And a 3D-printable tented frame accommodating the popular gel wrist rest was published by hephaestus_b.
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BoBo is a new uniform keycap profile from Tai Hao.
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PCBBuy is experimenting with a colorful soldermask printing method and shared some photos of the results.
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@StenoKeyboards found the first(?) steno machine, patented by Miles M. Bartholomew in 1879.
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Seeed Studio is running a promotion of the Seeed Fusion service offering free PCB prototypes with a XIAO RP2040 controller included.
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, Joel Simpson, Nuno Leitano, @therick0996, 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 #78 follow-up, new shops and discount codes, the historic KBD#1 is now partially available too, small developments.
Weekly keyboard art
Render of a retrofuturistic computer from the Loki series (source).