Issue #178 - Keyboard Builders' Digest (copy)
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #178
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips, ideas, meetups, discount codes, etc!
Hey y'all,
I'm giving away a LEGO-compatible KBDcraft Israfel kit, a cool split keyboard offered by Boyu. Check out the rules here.
And here are some of the posts I thought were worth sharing this time:
- Switch overview: here are October's community-favorite picks, based on real sales data provided by vendors and manufacturers.
- Review: The full-resin Akko YU01 keyboard elevates RGB lighting to a whole new level as the case acts as a giant diffuser. 65%, hot-swappable, wireless, featuring Akko Piano switches and ASA keycaps.
- A sub-40% monoblock split with trackball and encoder: Kolossus by Protieusz.
- A QAZ-like monoblock split: Clops by Calvin0563 – with on-board RP2040 and optional encoders.
- LostPistachio's Limbo is a relatively slim Dactyl-like keyboard with vertical thumb keys.
- Phasmic is a magnetic framework to build modular keyboards – shared by Tan Guan Hong.
- Rob Quinn made a super-cute ortho "TKL", the aptly named Ortho TKL. :)
- Smallcat is a 26-key split keyboard by Matt Petiteau, featuring the author's cat, Lila.
- The 5x12 ortholinear Krtkus 62 is a low-profile keyboard open sourced by Jan Bláha.
- This macropad, about the size of a credit card, was shared by Ziddy Makes.
As always: much more projects and resources in my weekly (sort of) editorial write-up, MK meetup calendar and keyboard shop database - with 500+ keyboard vendors!
Save some money
There are 165 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
Not only a keyboard but a full retro battlestation built out of LEGO pieces - by Veddermandenis.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, ZSA Technology Labs, Aiksplace, Upgrade Keyboards, @keebio, Cyboard, Jason Hazel, Jacob Mikesell, Sean Grady, kiyejoco, Ergohaven, KEEBD, @kaleid1990, littlemer-the-second, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Timo, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, TALPKEYBOARD, Joel Simpson, Schnoor Typography, u/eighty58five, Daniel Nikolov, Caleb Rand, Skyler Thuss, Brendan P., James McCleese, Benjamin Bell, Yuan Liu, Ben M, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, Clacky, Matthias Goffette, Stefan S., Alex Miller, Hating TheFruit, Trey Causey, Mario S., Dylan Ingham, Gordon Diggs, Cloyce, Davidjohn Gerena, Shnobble, Raphael Stanzani, Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Jesse L., Andres Sakk, s_p_l_o_d_e.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)