Issue #183 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #183
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips, ideas, discount codes, etc!
Hey y'all,
Happy New Year! Here are some of the news I thought were worth sharing this time:
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In the December overview of community-favorite mechanical switches, I cover last month's top picks, based on real sales data - of 1.5 to 2M switches sold - provided by 17 vendors and manufacturers.
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Peter is writing a three-part series for last year's thinly populated Advent Calendar - about solutions balancing (layout) compatibility and ergonomics.
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Evgenii Vilkov shared his monoblock split Molekula, a modular keyboard and framework.
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The Barnacle is a modular ortho keyboard by floookay -- heavily inspired by the Boardrun keyboards.
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A no-frills 36-key split keyboard with reversible PCB: EDC36 by Penk Chen.
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An update to Auryn's Corne clone: the split Avocado V3.
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Duarte Bento released his Puffer, a low-profile split keyboard with MX spacing.
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The Macrolev by Alexandre Moatty is an open-source magnetic analog keyboard.
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 172 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
CovertAI designed this custom southpaw keyboard for his girlfriend.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, ZSA Technology Labs, MoErgo Glove80, Aiksplace, Upgrade Keyboards, @keebio, Cyboard, Jason Hazel, Jacob Mikesell, Sean Grady, Ergohaven, KEEBD, @kaleid1990, littlemer-the-second, Timo, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Brendan P., Caleb Rand, James McCleese, Ben M, Yuan Liu, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, Clacky, Matthias Goffette, Stefan S., Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Hating TheFruit, Mario S., Cloyce, Dylan Ingham, Gordon Diggs, Shnobble, Davidjohn Gerena, Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Richard Dawe, s_p_l_o_d_e.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)