Issue #160 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #160
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips, ideas, meetups, discount codes, etc!
Hey y'all,
Thanks for your recent donations, the annual fee is covered, so I will continue sending out these newsletters. (More info and list of contributors in the editorial.)
And here are some of the posts I thought were worth sharing this time:
- I reviewed the Modern97, one of the recent models in a family of gorgeous keyboards designed by MelGeek: a prebuilt three-mode wireless 90% board. Probably the most beautiful and intricate case design I've ever seen (see the photo above).
- Many of you liked my reddit post about the vendor database update and the associated HD image sprite with 576 shop logos.
- The Corne V4 Choc, this latest iteration of foostan's iconic split, comes with on-board MCU.
- A series of writerdecks: Micro Journal for distraction-free writing -- designed by Un Kyu Lee.
- Daniel Bauer's wireless split Corax54 ditches one key of his previous model (the Corax56).
- With a recent release, the K:02's PCB, designed by Ergohaven, is open sourced now.
- The Cornball by Protieusz is a heavily modified Cornelius -- with an integrated trackball and some LEDs.
- How to add Quantum Painter/color LCD to (almost) any QMK keyboard -- a tutorial by Esse Woods aka OakNinja.
- Juha Kauppinen's Cygnus 1.0 has been officially released. Already featured back in February, there are now some more variants available, e.g. a 3x6 version. And a build video.
- Many more projects in the BTS post: Imperial44, lets_mimich, Prime52, Rzr36, keyboard "skin", Grumpy(bird), Aurora Corne case, Keysmet, retro style Cygnus dongle.
Even more resources in my weekly editorial write-up, MK meetup calendar and keyboard shop database - with 500+ keyboard vendors!
Save some money
There are now 147 keyboard shops accepting the KBDNEWS coupon code and offering you various discounts. Yeah, I finished updating the database and as a side-effect, 10 stores joined the ranks last week.
Check out all the shops on the coupon page!
Weekly keyboard art
Macintosh dongle for the Cygnus 1.0 by Rain2.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, Ashkeebs, ZSA Technology Labs, Aiksplace, @keebio, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, Sean Grady, Jacob Mikesell, Jason Hazel, @kaleid1990, Mechboards, kiyejoco, KEEBD, littlemer-the-second, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, TurtleKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Schnoor Typography, Caleb Rand, Skyler Thuss, Yuan Liu, Benjamin Bell, James McCleese, Ben M, Spencer Dabell, zzeneg, Matthias Goffette, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, TALPKEYBOARD, Vitali Haravy, Clacky, Hating TheFruit, Davidjohn Gerena, anonymous, Felicitas R., Brendan P., Rodrigo F., Andrew G., Adam Batkin, Shad, Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Shnobble, Stefan S., Indigo Computer Systems Ltd, Jure B., Enrico, Rich Dawe, Noel T., Luke R., Eugene B., Dylan Ingham, Kane, Nicolas T., Dante P., Lam D., Cloyce, Delek T., Moses Hoyt, Jurica B., Thomas P., Gordon Diggs, Dylan Ingham, Mario S., s_p_l_o_d_e, Kevin B.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)