Issue 103 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #103
Check out the new issue with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Anniversary Giveaway
To celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the blog, 111 prizes were offered by 50 vendors for a monstre giveaway. OMG... :D Details below.
Hey y'all,
Here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
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Kolibrimini is a 40% Alice-style keyboard with arrow cluster – designed by kreme11.
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4x4 is a modular ortholinear keyboard/MIDI controller design with per-key LEDs – shared by key-yack.
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Lagom is a through-hole 65% keyboard shared by mojibber who also published a smaller 40% one earlier: the litle.
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Osprey is a low-profile open-source monoblock split by ebastler. (Yeah, there was another Osprey last year.) And Leo Lou's Zerosprey42 is a remix of this one: RP2040 Zero instead of the on-board MCU.
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Joe Scotto built a split keyboard that uses VGA cable and connectors (facepalm :D): ScottoSplit.
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Release of the wireless magnetic Corne case by weissbieremulsion: Mcorne c5.
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Koenigspiel designed the Kunai, a case for the Corne based off the Am Hatsu.
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There's a special promotion for mechanical keyboard makers going on at Elecrow. Check it out for 50% discounts and even $1 plates.
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Timothy is a tented split keyboard with lowered thumb clusters – designed by geek-rabb1t.
Anniversary Giveaway
Check out the giveaway page and feel free to apply. Raffle day is Nov 20.
Many thanks to all the sponsors:
1UP Keyboards, American Haptics, Ascend Keyboards, Ashkeebs, Bastard Keyboards, bespoke.keys, Candykeys, CENTOREK, Control Shift Escape, Custom Keyboard Co., Dangkeebs, Deskpads.gallery, ergomech.store, FalbaTech, Green Door Geeks, KBDfans, Keeb.supply, KEEBD, KeyCrox, KEYGEM, KHOR, Kinetic Labs, Kirball's Keys, Kiwikeebs, Krome Keycaps, Lumekeebs, Major KB, Matias.ca, Mechboards, Mechbox, Mekibo, Mellowcaps, Milktooth, Mintlodica, Momokai, ONEofZero, Onyx Cables, PantheonKeys, Pikatea.com, pkkeyboards, Shockport Keyboards, Signature Plastics, Strumace, Splitkb, TEX Electronics, Treasure®, Turtlekeebs, Unicorn Cables, Upgradekeyboards, X-Bows
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, PCBWay, Aiksplace, @keebio, u/chad3814, @kaleid1990, MKUltra, Sean Grady, Cyboard, cdc, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, kiyejoco, KEEBD, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Jacob Mikesell, Joel Simpson, Keebstuff, littlemer-the-second, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Andy Piper, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Christian Lo, Upgrade Keyboards, Daniel Nikolov, Skyler Thuss, u/eighty58five, Davidjohn Gerena, Caleb Rand, Fabian Suceveanu, Arto Olli, anonymous, Hating TheFruit
You are awesome! Thanks everyone!
Behind the Scenes
This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series:
Anniversary giveaway, advent calendar, updates to the vendor and meetup databases, Seeed competition update, etc.
Weekly keyboard art(?)
No, I apologize. :D It’s not knitted but screen printed. Committed by CannonKeys (source).