Issue #165 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #165
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 time:
- Last week I tested and reviewed Akko's gorgeous MOD 007 V3 HE Year of the Dragon board, a "limited series" Hall-effect work of art. Check it out, discounts are now available in both the EU/DE and US stores (code: KBDNEWS).
- Nova is a heavily modded Buran by Protieusz: an orthoish monoblock split with trackball, on-board RP2040 and roller encoder. Plus here is the original Buran by ScatteredDrifter.
- Evgenii Vilkov shared a new 40-key variant of his Stront: Stront40 with more keys and more modules. For Dutch speakers with love.
- A nice monoblock split by tschibo00: Tokeyo.
- Squalius-cephalus shared the split Silakka44 with reversible hotswap PCB.
- Kipra by Peter Lyons - kinda pragmatic. At least much more down-to-earth than his previous projects.
- Sam and Adam Kemp, a father and son team, write about how they've designed replacement keycaps for the AlphaSmart Neo, bringing this old keyboard back to life.
- More: keyboard sketcher, cursed keyboard, Blob macropad, Bad Wings v2, ScottoWing PCB, keytilt.xyz, etc.
As always, much more resources in my weekly editorial write-up, MK meetup calendar and keyboard shop database - with 500+ keyboard vendors!
Save some money
There are 153 keyboard shops accepting the KBDNEWS coupon code and offering you various discounts now. (And here are all the keyboard stores in the database.)
Weekly keyboard art
MarcelMakes wrapped his encoder knob in leather.
This issue’s supporters
Ashkeebs, splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, ZSA Technology Labs, Aiksplace, @keebio, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, Jason Hazel, Sean Grady, Jacob Mikesell, kiyejoco, @kaleid1990, KEEBD, littlemer-the-second, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Richard Sutherland, Christian Mladenov, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Schnoor Typography, Skyler Thuss, Caleb Rand, Yuan Liu, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell, TALPKEYBOARD, Ben M, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, Matthias Goffette, Felicitas R., Clacky, Vitali Haravy, Hating TheFruit, anonymous, Davidjohn Gerena, Brendan P., Stefan S., Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Shnobble, Mario S., Dylan Ingham, Gordon Diggs, Cloyce, kapee1, Raphael Stanzani, koolkeys, s_p_l_o_d_e
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)