Issue #150 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #150
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:
- I spent a lot of time with compiling this piece: With the Promenade, Krado Industries tries to resurrect the Boardwalk, an ortho board with 1.5u Ergodox modifiers. I looked into the history of this layout.
- Joshua Chung's Saturn is a pretty sick monoblock split PCB with chunky hotswap controllers via DB25 parallel connectors.
- The SS Centurion, a 39-key monoblock split with a trackball, is the latest keyboard by Protieusz.
- A tented unibody case of Churn, a handwired split by Luke Schutt.
- Salvatore La Bua's Saru48W+ is a handwired 13x4 ortholinear keyboard in a nice case.
- Retrospective: I just rediscovered the eek! by Klackygears, this unibody split with brutal 90 degree angle from 2020.
- Soufflé v3.1 released. Jesus Climent added a new pin for Nice!View compatibility.
- The Archaeoptereeks (successor of the eek!) by klackygears is in the works, and it makes me smile every time I see it. Such a fun creation!
- IXKB is a nice 60% ortho with joytick. Designed by afriggeri.
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, Jason Hazel, Jacob Mikesell, @kaleid1990, kiyejoco, KEEBD, littlemer-the-second, ghsear.ch, Christian Lo, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Richard Sutherland, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, TurtleKeebs, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Mechboards, Caleb Rand, Schnoor Typography, Skyler Thuss, Yuan Liu, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell, Ben M, Matthias Goffette, Spencer Dabell, zzeneg, Anatolii Smolianinov, Hating TheFruit, Penk Chen, Davidjohn Gerena, anonymous, Vitali Haravy, Clacky, Gavin Folgert, Daniel C., Shnobble, Alex Miller.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
FLKB - by Least-Composer.