Issue #159 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #159
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips, ideas, meetups, discount codes, etc!
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And here are some of the posts I thought were worth sharing this time:
- The IROK ND75, sold by MechKeys, is a genuine little gaming board with compact layout, nice magnetic switches, and plenty of RGB. The first contemporary Hall-effect board I've ever tried.
- Sandalmoth published the Powerspill, a Dactyl-like split with keywell.
- Squalius-cephalus shared the Reviung-derivative monoblock Silli41, along with its numpad companion.
- Jhonatan Ferrer's JK206 is an open-source 12x5 ortho keyboard -- actually 3 numpad PCBs stuck together.
- Semickolon shared some updates to the FAK firmware, along with Partycrasher Micro, a Pro Micro drop-in replacement.
- A 65% keyboard case inspired by the ZX Spectrum: Kada Spectrum by Emil.
- I learned about text expanders like Espanso via LividElevator's r/mk post. Unfortunately, steno is not for heavily agglutinating languages I type in, and the usage of these text expanders is limited too, but I've set up unicode fractions, some emojis, arrows, etc.
- More: Svalboard Lightly with trackball holder, Numpad 21 by alan0ford, comparison of Keyreative's "dye sub plus" technology, Katana Kombat, Kyria tenting clip, etc.
Much more news and resources in my weekly editorial write-up, MK meetup calendar and keyboard shop database - with 500+ keyboard vendors!
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Weekly keyboard art
RE:CAP - artisans from recycled plastic by jankycaps.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, Ashkeebs, MoErgo Glove80, ZSA Technology Labs, Aiksplace, @keebio, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, Sean Grady, Jacob Mikesell, Jason Hazel, @kaleid1990, kiyejoco, KEEBD, Mechboards, littlemer-the-second, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, TurtleKeebs, Joel Simpson, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, Lev Popov, Daniel Nikolov, Schnoor Typography, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, Skyler Thuss, Yuan Liu, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell, Ben M, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, Matthias Goffette, TALPKEYBOARD, Penk Chen, Hating TheFruit, Davidjohn Gerena, Vitali Haravy, Clacky, Felicitas R., anonymous, Alex Miller, Gavin Folgert, Shnobble, Stefan S., Trey Causey, Nick B.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)