Issue #145 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #145
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips, ideas, meetups, discount codes, etc!
Hey y'all,
The anniversary giveaway is over but it doesn't mean you can't win something cool this time: fill out the November switch purchase form for a chance to lay your hands on this aluminum keycap set offered by keygem.com.
And here are some of the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
- Ergonaut One is an open-source split built around KS33 switches -- released by the newly formed team of Ergonaut Keyboards.
- VU.A is a fully wireless split with row staggering -- designed by EagleVee.
- Joe Scotto is back with a very low profile handwired unibody split: ScottoWings.
- A 34-key diodeless split for larger hands: YetiS by jogme.
- Jamie Ding's pretty standardish looking Pome76 behaves like a "unibody ergo". How? Check out the keymap.
- Gleb Sabirzyanov published his Tern Ble, a wireless remix of the Tern keyboard.
- The bunchiez40 is an ultracompact ortholinear keyboard designed by Christian Lo -- with mouse switches!
- Other open source projects: Rolio46.1 released by MickiusMousius. And a numpad with WaveShare RP2040 Matrix MCU by Ben Clarke (github).
- Closed source, commercial, N/A: High Plains Drifter (HPD) is the newest split model of ergohaven. (In addition, the Ergohaven Planeta case is now open source.) Tomy announced by mikethetiger_ (keyboardarcade.xyz). Wing18 Alpha by EricaAngelASMR.
- Switches: WS Jades with metal inserts in the stem and tube base, pressure sensitive switches on the Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II sampler, roller linear switches IC with ball bearings.
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!
Giveaway & MK Advent Calendar
Keep an eye on your inbox and spam folder, I'm still not finished with notifying winners of the recent giveaway.
But there are even more prizes to win. Fill in the November switch purchase form even if you haven't bought anything! I have some cool prizes for you, e.g. what about this nice aluminum keycap set offered by Keygem? ;)
Plus this year's MK advent calendar starts tomorrow! Stay tuned!
And say thanks to all the generous vendors of the recent giveaway one more time:
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
The elusive Holborn 9120 terminal (1981).