Issue #151 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #151
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:
- After testing the DaringRun DR-70F for a few weeks, here is my review. This great 70+5% is very affordable if you consider the anodized alu case, XT-style F column, and the clever two-in-one layout configuration a la TENET70.
- Milktooth's Kevin is back to help us with December's most popular switches, based on his sales numbers.
- The wireless unibody Duet is Evgenii Vilkov's latest keyboard project and travel companion, with magnetic connectors between the halves.
- The unibody Ch55p34 by Alex Miller uses the CH552T MCU, and it runs on FAK firmware.
- Any woodworkers here? Azel's Redpoll, a low-pro unibody keyboard, is made out of plywood.
- ArchUsr's handwired Egboard is a monoblock split keyboard powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico running Rust.
- Morgan announced the Svalboard Lightly, successor of the Svalboard Alpha (interview).
- Commercial: The modue, a modular control station from three nice Polish guys, is stepping into the Kickstarter stage. They snap together magnetically, just like zzeneg's Duet above.
- Haimu clip-in switches. Mounting pins clip into the PCB which helps with plateless builds.
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, KEEBD, kiyejoco, littlemer-the-second, Christian Lo, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, FFKeebs, Bob Cotton, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Christian Mladenov, Lev Popov, TurtleKeebs, Daniel Nikolov, Schnoor Typography, u/eighty58five, Mechboards, Caleb Rand, Skyler Thuss, Yuan Liu, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell, Ben M, zzeneg, Matthias Goffette, Anatolii Smolianinov, Spencer Dabell, Hating TheFruit, Penk Chen, Davidjohn Gerena, anonymous, Vitali Haravy, Clacky, Shnobble, Alex Miller, Gavin Folgert.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
Snowflake macropad - by takashicompany.