Issue #147 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #147
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 team behind KeebSupply sums up the past year and what inspired them to open an online shop for keyboards.
- Reverb IC/GB at mechboards.co.uk. You know I have a penchant for these monoblock splits, and this one just looks too damn cool to not to get featured.
- A clever PCB with two different layout options, one on each side: Qazikat by weteor.
- Here is the story of the CLP profile, vvhg's personal keycap project, with a narrative arc starting from scavenged typewriter caps. :D
- WayduhKBD writes about learning PCB design and stonework.
- Pete Johanson sums up the early days of ZMK, everyone's favorite wireless first firmware, and looks into the future.
- Sadek Baroudi wrote about the inception and significance of VIK, a standardized interface for keyboards (and more).
- Philip Lalonde writes about fan art: mashing up the graphic design and keyboard hobbies.
- Jesse Vincent of Keyboardio describes building a force tester out of an old 3D printer: Forcy McForceFace.
- Nyan Keys is an FPGA based mechanical keyboard engineered for low latency -- open sourced by rekcats.
- ProtieusKeeb's monoblock Sentinel, inspired by Le Chiffre, comes with an interchangeable trackball unit.
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!
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, ZSA Technology Labs, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, Ashkeebs, Sean Grady, @kaleid1990, Jason Hazel, Jacob Mikesell, 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, Mechboards, u/eighty58five, TurtleKeebs, Caleb Rand, Schnoor Typography, Skyler Thuss, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Mats Faugli, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell, Ben M, Matthias Goffette, Spencer Dabell, zzeneg, Hating TheFruit, Davidjohn Gerena, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, anonymous, Clacky, Vitali Haravy, István K.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
Miyo - mujimanic put a working watch into an artisan keycap.