Issue #146 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #146
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips, ideas, meetups, discount codes, etc!
Hey y'all,
Here are some of the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
- The advent calendar rolls on with incredibly versatile topics: Hexagonal keys in ergonomic layouts, report from a a brick-and-mortar mechanical keyboard store, bringing out the best of your Pro Micro, building keyboards with lasers, tips on organizing meetups, the MK Vendor Trust and Safety System, ProtieusKeeb's summary of the year, and the brief history of keyboard encoding. Stay tuned! (And many thanks to all the contributors.)
- Milktooth's Kevin is back to capture the zeitgeist and identify November's most popular switches for mechanical keyboards.
- Richard Goulter shared two orthos: CH552-48 & CH552-44 -- both using the cheap CH552 MCU.
- Zireael is a low-pro wireless split, shared by Mposible -- based on the Dao.
- Sporkus' Le Capybara is a capacitive sensing keyboard in Le Chiffre layout.
- A keyboard design framework with adjustable columns on a rail system: Seismos by Danny Vo.
- Closed, N/A, etc.: Cyberdeck with a monoblock split keyboard by Alex Karantza, Nydas36, Planck roleplaying as a unibody split, handwired A-TE-B1 ortho.
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, 120+ of them offering various discounts and coupons for you!
Goodies
The November switch purchase poll is open for one more day, after that I'll choose the winners of this nice aluminum keycap set offered by Keygem, a set of PK Sora linears by Paramountkeeb, and some minor prizes.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, ZSA Technology Labs, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, Ashkeebs, Sean Grady, Jacob Mikesell, @kaleid1990, 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, Mechboards, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, Schnoor Typography, Skyler Thuss, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, TurtleKeebs, Mats Faugli, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell, Ben M, Matthias Goffette, Spencer Dabell, zzeneg, Hating TheFruit, Davidjohn Gerena, Anatolii Smolianinov, anonymous, Penk Chen, Clacky, Vitali Haravy, Karine L.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
Cornelius MOD by Daraku__neko.