Issue #144 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #144
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
These are the final hours to apply for the giveway prizes! Make sure you fill out the form before I shut it down on Nov 20.
And here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
- Created by graphic design student Nate Kearney, NKEY is a print magazine concept with some kbd.news interviews as its backbone.
- Kazik is a cute 30% keyboard by monokēēbs -- with versatile PCB, XIAO RP2040, and Japanese duplex matrix!
- Sebastian Stumpf's Swepp is a splayed Sweep, a split keyboard with 34 keys.
- Tarneo shared a small and portable sub-10x10 cm ergo split called Triboard.
- Beekeeb's Leo announced Allium58, a low-pro split based on the Lily58 Pro.
- Protieusz shared a standalone trackball along with an open-source trackball module: Starship Bubu-01 and OmegaSupreme.
- Magnetic case and tenting for the Sweep keyboard: Msweep by Runningtarrens.
- Typioca is a terminal based typing speed tester created by Lukas Bloznelis.
- 3D: A custom Zaphod case by llpamies.
- AccidentalRebel combined the two halves of a Velvet case and added more keys: UniVelvet44.
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
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, Christian Lo, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Schnoor Typography, Caleb Rand, Spencer Blackwood, Skyler Thuss, Yuan Liu, TurtleKeebs, Mats Faugli, Benjamin Bell, James McCleese, Mechboards, Ben M, Matthias Goffette, zzeneg, Hating TheFruit, Anatolii Smolianinov, Davidjohn Gerena, Spencer Dabell, anonymous, Penk Chen, Clacky, Vitali Haravy.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
Maltron setup posted by djeyewater. (I checked if commenters pointed out that the one-handed Maltrons are on the wrong side, and overkill_input_club did.)