Issue #179 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #179
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips, ideas, meetups, discount codes, etc!
Hey y'all,
Ouch. I completely forgot about this year's MK Advent Calendar. If you'd like to contribute, here are the guidelines for authors, and last year's edition for reference.
And here are some of the posts I thought were worth sharing this time:
- I reviewed the KBDcraft Israfel kit. It's a brilliant 50% unibody split with an adjustable angle, made of LEGO. A great first split, offering a huge bang for your buck. I mean, $63 with the KBDNEWS coupon code?! It's a no-brainer. Head to the store, folks!
- Designed by Abeer Vaishnav, the Qimera is a 54-key low-profile split keyboard.
- JCam shared the wireless split 2Pocket, his submission for the pocket keyboard design contest.
- A 58-key split keyboard with Choc V2s and encoders: Boost58 by Vacant0mens.
- Mikey Sklar is back with another chording keyboard: the NeoBoomerang uses off-the-shelf Adafruit hardware.
- Alexandre Plateau shared his low-profile split Floppy keyboard. Yep, the form factor of a floppy disk.
- The ToadsTempest by tikinson is a cute pocket monoblock with acrylic keycaps - another runner-up in sporewoh's keyboard contest.
- A 34-key Bluetooth keyboard with self-encasing PCB: Fract by skarrmann.
- A 16-key meme macropad by ziddy: ZM Keyboard Cube.
As always: much more projects and resources in my weekly (sort of) editorial write-up, switch database, MK meetup calendar and keyboard shop database - with 500+ keyboard vendors!
Save some money
There are 164 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
Keyboard Membrane Converse by Cory Infinite.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, ZSA Technology Labs, MoErgo Glove80, Aiksplace, Upgrade Keyboards, @keebio, Cyboard, Jason Hazel, Sean Grady, Jacob Mikesell, kiyejoco, Ergohaven, KEEBD, @kaleid1990, littlemer-the-second, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Timo, FFKeebs, Bob Cotton, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, TALPKEYBOARD, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, 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!)