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Keyboard Builders’ Digest / Issue 48

Check the new issue with awesome projects, tips and ideas!

Hi <<First Name>>,

To make KBD.news’ core features sustainable, I have to close the huge gap between donations and time invested, so expect me dialing down my activity on some platforms.

And these are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:

1. As of today, giveaways are banned on r/mk. My thoughts on this and my recent winning streak (with strategy) in this week’s editorial.

2. The Mosquito, a 34 key Bluetooth, column-staggered split by jamesmnw with splay.

3. The VColChoc44 is an Atreus-like low-profile monoblock split by jpconstantineau with on-board RP2040.

4. Yacc46 - Another monoblock split with column splay and all the bells and whistles. Designed by by 1m38.

5. Review: Gateron Box Ink Pink switches. The usual exhaustive study by ThereminGoat.

6. Tools: Dactyl Chimera, a 3D ergo keyboard test bench by WolfIcefang.

7. A method for low profile socketing with standard 24 pin wide socket. Posted by atlantesque.

8. Vintage: The IBM Lighted Program Function Keyboard (LPFK) was used as an extra input device when doing computer aided design on the IBM RS/6000 series of machines.

9. An Ericsson/Telekom keyboard with unusual Escape key/cluster spotted by retr0FPS.

10. An Intel MDS 225 with a divine key arrangement posted by absurd_logic589. Help me figure out what “deselect” in this context means.

11. Inspiration: Mr_Cupcake33 finished his foldable build and a nice blend of walnut and acrylic in this layered case.

What do you think? I’d like to hear your opinion over in the r/mk thread.

Thanks for reading. This newsletter is free, but compiling it takes a lot of my time. You can help it keep going: forward it to a friend who’d like it, or consider supporting it on buymeacoffee.

This issue’s supporters

splitkb.com, Jeremy Kitchen, AikenJG, @keebio, @kaleid1990, u/chad3814, Eugenie, sebastian siggerud, ajoflo, cdc, Jim, Keycapsss.com, kiyejoco, Jens & @danielcormier.

Thank you so much! Making this issue wouldn’t have been possible without your support.

Behind the Scenes

This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series on BMC (for members):

“Giveaway masterclass: how I won a heap of stuff recently. Related: Giveaways banned on r/mk as of today. Vendor database update, new discount codes, etc.”

Read it here

Weekly keyboard art

An impressive Victorian retrofuturistic terminal in Pete Amachree’s artwork entitled - Revealing the secrets of The Arcturan Artefact - Imperial College London, 1891 (source & fullsize pic).

And finally, the news with pics…

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