Issue #143 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #143
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
The giveaway form is live, one week left to apply! (There are some new prizes so you may want to update your preferences.)
And here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
- The DragonFruit is a VIK certified monoblock split by Protieusz.
- Victor published the CLP keycap profile, comprising a set of 19 nice sculpted keycap variants for MX switches.
- Ahmad Anshori shared Split Fire, a single-MCU handwired split keyboard with VGA connectors and joystick.
- Shay's HillSideView is a derivative of the original Hillside -- with nice!view and more changes.
- A displaced ortho by James Gzowski: Proteus67 -- with encoder.
- ZSA replaces its previous flashing utility (Wally) with Keymapp, soft-launched alongside the Voyager. It also provides per-layer heatmap and live view of your keymap, aiding the optimization and learning process.
- An old interview with Richard Nagy made me aware of Datamancer Keyboards and their steampunk, retro-Victorian and art deco keyboard designs. Sadly, Richard passed away a decade ago, but the site is still online.
- The MK VendorTrust & Safety System aims to improve trust and transparency of vendors running group buys. PSA on r/MK.
- ZMK started a new series of "community spotlight" posts, highlighting interesting projects in the ZMK ecosystem. The first one by Nick Coutsos is about the Keymap Editor.
- N/A: pippikb by coleckion, a handwired Teensy 2.0 board by DanKrot, a Corne-ish handwired by DSLR_CNC, and the mapo46touch prototype by ma_po_daisuki.
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
There are some new additions, check out the prize pool and fill out the application form. And say thanks to these generous vendors:
Bastard Keyboards, 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, cdc, littlemer-the-second, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Christian Lo, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Schnoor Typography, Spencer Blackwood, Caleb Rand, Skyler Thuss, TurtleKeebs, Yuan Liu, Mats Faugli, Benjamin Bell, James McCleese, Mechboards, Ben M, Matthias Goffette, Hating TheFruit, Davidjohn Gerena, Spencer Dabell, zzeneg, anonymous, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, Clacky, Richard Dawe, Vitali Haravy.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
The Clacker by Datamancer Keyboards.