Issue #185 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #185
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips, ideas, discount codes, etc!
Hey y'all,
Here are some of the news I thought were worth sharing this time:
- A Voyager-inspired budget unibody split: Mantaray by Colton Hawkins.
- I have a heap of keyboards to review, but I only had time to test a mouse this week: GravaStar's flagship wireless Mercury X Pro. A cutting-edge precision tool for competitive gamers - overkill for me in the office. ;) Cool sci-fi aesthetic, ultra-light magnesium frame, fancy RGB light.
- Designed by Penk Chen, the Haori36-MX is a unibody ortho split keyboard.
- A clever 3D-printed case for Keebio's BDN9: Banchan from Capsule Deluxe.
- Crosses is a modular ergonomic keyboard with trackball -- shared by Vinnie Franco.
- Designed by Ming Gih-Lam, TKLish is a series of PCBs that mimic the style of a TKL keyboard.
- N36tsu by n1tsu. A low-profile split with PG1316S switches.
- The Red Cedar is a well-documented Dactyl-like split by Tim Wenger - with PS2 buttons.
- Lio46 is a wireless, 46-key split keyboard - designed by Liolaeus.
As always: much more projects and resources in my weekly editorial write-up, switch database, MK meetup calendar and keyboard shop database - with 500+ keyboard vendors!
Save some money
There are 166 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 KBDcraft Israfel, rebuilt with custom Lego bricks. Posted by GeckoAutruche.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, ZSA Technology Labs, 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, TALPKEYBOARD, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, Brendan P., Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, James McCleese, Ben M, Yuan Liu, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, Clacky, Matthias Goffette, Stefan S., Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Gordon Diggs, Mario S., Dylan Ingham, Cloyce, Hating TheFruit, Shnobble, Davidjohn Gerena, Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Jesse L., Andres Sakk, Stefan Schwarzer, s_p_l_o_d_e, nutylabs, Joshua Congdon, SadWitch.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)