Issue #142 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #142
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
Here are some of the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
- Milktooth's Kevin is back with October's most popular switches. I piggybacked the post and included some results of the previous switch mini poll. The new poll for your November purchases is already available, and I'll try to arrange some prizes for those who fill it out.
- The application form for the anniversary giveaway is also live! Check out the list of prizes, more than 60 goodies, and feel free to apply.
- I wrote about the fun 8BitDo Retro Keyboard, a wireless TKL with dials and those crazy super buttons!
- CMY (Cylindrical Minimal Y) is a new open-source keycap profile by Sadek Baroudi for both MX and low-profile switches.
- Jbam9 shared a case for the JB69, a handwired ortho with a solenoid.
- Cbskii's Storyboard is a 5x12 hotswap ortholinear keyboard with an e-ink display.
- There are still some empty slots for the MK Advent Calendar, let me know if you have a good idea for an article and would like to contribute.
- Community: the swansong of MKUltra is over. Read Thomas Baart's PSA for more details.
- Keystackers/kapstackers are the new trend. After the first one by Midgetforsale and then by KeebKrafters, here is an open-source keycap stacker by vprinting.
- Just pics: a nice 44-key handwired by daaaaaaave, another one called gvlsplit by FrostingHopeful, and @fairladyxy teased a prototype of a trackball with an integrated keyboard ("just for the sake of it").
You can find even more quick news and resources in my weekly editorial write-up, MK meetup calendar and keyboard shop database -- with 500+ keyboard vendors, 100+ of them offering various discounts and coupons for you!
Sponsors of the upcoming giveaway
Just reached out for offers yesterday, but you may check out the prizes thus far. And say thanks to the quickest and greatest vendors:
Capsule Deluxe, Chosfox, Custom Keyboard Co., Cyboard, Dangkeebs, FalbaTech, Goblintechkeys, Green Door Geeks, Heavymetalkeyboards, Keeb.supply, KEEBD, Keebmonkey, Kemove, Keyboard.io, Keycapsss, KEYGEM, KHOR, Kinetic Labs, Krome Keycaps, Little Keyboards, Mechanicalkeyboards.co.id, Mechboards, Mechbox, Mintlodica, Momokai, Turtlekeebs, Upgrade Keyboards, ZSA Technology Labs.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, ZSA Technology Labs, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, Sean Grady, @kaleid1990, Jacob Mikesell, Jason Hazel, KEEBD, kiyejoco, littlemer-the-second, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Christian Lo, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Richard Sutherland, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Schnoor Typography, Caleb Rand, Skyler Thuss, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Mats Faugli, TurtleKeebs, Benjamin Bell, James McCleese, Ben M, Matthias Goffette, Davidjohn Gerena, Spencer Dabell, zzeneg, Hating TheFruit, anonymous, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, Clacky, Felicitas.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
Libra "Marble Totoro" Mini by Driftionary.