Issue #171 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #171
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:
- My monthly overview of community favorite mechanical switches, based on real sales data provided by vendors and manufacturers, made some rounds on Friday. I added some overdue lists and comments over the weekend, and prices too.
- I built and reviewed Joe Scotto's cool ScottoWing DIY kit (PCB edition). It was a great experience, a very easy build, ideal for absolute beginners too.
- Dane Lipscombe released his Tenshi, a split keyboard with slide-adjustable trackpads.
- Jhootdev shared the Jingis 38, an open-source monoblock keyboard with some pinky splay.
- Wabble-60 is a RISC-V-powered BLE ortholinear keyboard designed by Richard Goulter.
- Will Puckett created and shared a shield to convert the classic Apple M0487 keyboard to ZMK/nice!nano.
- Avocado is a wireless 5x3 split keyboard designed by Auryn.
- Jonathan Black released his Lucca 58HE, a Hall-effect split keyboard.
- A wireless unibody split with integrated trackball and more: Ghazal by AlSaMoMo.
- An asymmetric low-profile keyboard for playing MMO games: MMOAbom56 by ujl123.
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 157 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
A split keyboard with mint flavor. Posted by Least-Composer.
This issue’s supporters
Ashkeebs, splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, ZSA Technology Labs, Aiksplace, Upgrade Keyboards, @keebio, Cyboard, Jason Hazel, Sean Grady, Jacob Mikesell, kiyejoco, @kaleid1990, KEEBD, littlemer-the-second, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Ergohaven, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, Joel Simpson, Timo, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, Skyler Thuss, TALPKEYBOARD, Typeware, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell, Yuan Liu, Ben M, Brendan P., zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, Matthias Goffette, Clacky, Vitali Haravy, Felicitas R., Stefan S., Hating TheFruit, Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Davidjohn Gerena, Mario S., Dylan Ingham, Gordon Diggs, Cloyce, Shnobble, Raphael Stanzani, Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Mario S., s_p_l_o_d_e
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)