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Keyboard Builders’ Digest / Issue 54

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Hi <<First Name>>,

Huge thanks to everyone who became a paid subscriber in the first year of this project! A share of your donations went to the Movember initiative, fighting prostate and testicle cancer.

Back to keyboards, here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:

1. Sadek Baroudi's Baby Groot Keyboard is a cheap (or free!) split PCB with a lot of features.

2. David Barr's Parergon has only 32 keys, so it can be built without diodes.

3. Axel Voitier's Lergo (ex-Kyfle) project is an ergo split exploration platform rather than a keyboard.

4. The ErgoChoco is a well-documented open-source pseudosplit design by Choco617.

5. Alice-like layouts: the Tenalice Ambidextrous by Cerbekos with a 45° numpad in the center; and variants of the Arisutea by mattjames03.

6. Controllers: The Arduino UNO is not your typical keyboard controller, but the limited mini anniversary edition is actually only 34.2mm x 26.7mm. Hmmm. And a more keyboard-friendly contender: the KB2040 Keeboar, this RP2040 based board by Adafruit.

7. ThereminGoat reviewed the Zealio V1 Redux switches.

8. Human_Evolution shares his experiences with splatter painting a keyboard in the '80/90s style.

9. Keyboard spotting: A battered Tektronix 4014-1 computer terminal spotted by Jaceveldhuis and an ADDS Viewpoint A2 acquired by Eragaurd.

10. Inspiration: FinnGus is a cat shaped kit inspired by the cats of JackPikatea.

11. Bluesocarrot’s Uncokeeb is a per-finger chorded keyboard concept/prototype.

12. Typewriters are popular again.

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Behind the Scenes

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

“Major split database update on the way, developments, giveaway follow-up, on the UNO Mini & Adafruit KB2040 controllers, Issue #53 follow-up, Movember.”

Read it here

Weekly keyboard art

A luggable computer - by Throwy_away_1 (source).

And finally, the news with pics…

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