Issue #167 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #167
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, handpicked from projects published in the recent two weeks:
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I reviewed yet another Akko masterpiece: the MU01 Mountain Seclusion, a 65% wireless keyboard in a gorgeous walnut case.
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In this case study I type out the Harry Potter books to demonstrate the power of alternative layouts and keymap customization.
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Mod Mmm ortho PCB by Ming-Gih Lam – turn your IBM Model M into a hotswap MX ortho keyboard.
- Penk Chen's unibody ergo WeirdFlexButOk PCB has kerf bending cuts for tenting.
- Sneftel shared the SOWGull, a split version of his original Gull keyboard.
- Cosimini designed and shared the Cambkb, a split keyboard with RJ-9 connectors and exposed diode array.
- Chris Lo is hosting a pocket keyboard design contest. Submission deadline: Sept 10.
- Ally Parker's Corneroll is another Corne variant, this time: wireless, choc, hotswap – with roller encoders.
- Zac Morhous' Allium58CAD has a custom magnetic case snapping to a SpaceMouse.
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 154 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
Doggo keyboard stand by ibidibbidoo (source).
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, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Schnoor Typography, Caleb Rand, Skyler Thuss, Timo, Yuan Liu, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell, Ergohaven, TALPKEYBOARD, Ben M, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, Matthias Goffette, Penk Chen, Brendan P., Vitali Haravy, Clacky, Felicitas R., Hating TheFruit, Stefan S., Davidjohn Gerena, anonymous, Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Shnobble, Mario S., Dylan Ingham, Gordon Diggs, Cloyce, Raphael Stanzani, koolkeys, s_p_l_o_d_e, Duncan B.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)