Issue #186 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #186
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:
- It's been on top for two weeks, but maybe some of you've missed it: January's community-favorite mechanical switches, based on real sales data provided by vendors and manufacturers.
- Review: The Lexicon by WeirdLittleKeebs is a 65% "writing keyboard" designed for wordsmiths – with a layer full of words. (Dressed in KAP Generation, received from Monacokeys.)
- FearlessSpiff's Raveniung is a Reviung-derivative unibody split with oak plate.
- Aurora is a 65% open-source ortholinear split keyboard, shared by Musab Hassan.
- A 54-key wireless split with nice lighting: StackOverChonk by Aditya.
- The unibody split LoremIpsum36 is a no-frills Gateron LP keyboard by Penk Chen.
- Kivipallur is an ergo split keyboard with a 25 mm thumb trackball – designed by dr3san.
- ErgoSentry is the ultimate resurrection of the retired SteelSeries Merc Stealth keyboard – a group buy by CustomMK.
- Oneofzero deskmat design contest -- Win $1000 & a deskmat collab.
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 168 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
Whale Cosmia artisan by Creasikey.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, ZSA Technology Labs, Upgrade Keyboards, Aiksplace, @keebio, Cyboard, Jason Hazel, Ergohaven, Jacob Mikesell, KEEBD, @kaleid1990, littlemer-the-second, Timo, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, TALPKEYBOARD, FFKeebs, Bob Cotton, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, Brendan P., Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, James McCleese, Ben M, zzeneg, Yuan Liu, Anatolii Smolianinov, Spencer Dabell, Penk Chen, Clacky, Stefan S., Matthias Goffette, Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Hating TheFruit, Cloyce, Mario S., Gordon Diggs, Dylan Ingham, Duncan B., Shnobble, Davidjohn Gerena, HubertTheMad, Jesse L., Andres Sakk, Cem A., s_p_l_o_d_e, nutylabs.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)