Issue #149 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #149
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 articulation70 is a successor to Myles Lee's articulation80 keyboard -- with LEDs and a more personalized layout.
- Richard Goulter's CH552-36 is a 36-key split with exposed SMT components and CH552 MCU.
- Jason Hazel shared the latest iteration of his Chaz, with Choc-spaced QAZ layout -- and on-board STM32F702 controller.
- Markus Knutsson announced his Chameleon, a versatile ortholinear keyboard with both Preonic and Planck layouts (snap-off bottom row).
- The Pyramidka is a 3d printed, handwired, 40% keyboard with confusing aura :) -- shared by aroum.
- Joe Scotto's ScottoKatana is a 33-key handwired keyboard with symmetric stagger.
- Sporewoh's modkipz40 is a monoblock split pocket keyboard using mouse switches.
- Samuel Stephenson shared the files of Quill, a nice hotswap macropad with encoders.
- The Planeta v1 is now fully open source (PCB). And the Velvet v2 and Planeta v2 are available at ergohaven.xyz.
- Tools & Tips: Adamwscki updated his kbplacer KiCad plugin. Alex shared a clean and simple KiCad starter tutorial. NumLockSmith published an online heatmap tool (info).
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, Jacob Mikesell, @kaleid1990, Jason Hazel, KEEBD, kiyejoco, 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, Mechboards, Schnoor Typography, TurtleKeebs, Caleb Rand, Skyler Thuss, Yuan Liu, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell, Ben M, Matthias Goffette, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, anonymous, Miranda F., anonymous, Hating TheFruit, Davidjohn Gerena, Penk Chen, anonymous, Vitali Haravy, Clacky, Gavin Folgert, Carl Westman, Shnobble, István K.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
Drift - by timception.