Issue #192 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #192
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips, ideas, discount codes, etc!
Hey y'all,
Here are a few notable keyboard-related projects I thought were worth highlighting this time around:
- Switch market overview: In this month's summary of community-favorite mechanical switches, here are May's top picks, based on real sales data provided by vendors and manufacturers.
- Recent review: The KiiBOOM LOOP65 is an affordable 65% keyboard with a cool multi-color aluminum case. A relatively compact wireless board supporting VIA.
- Paicorea is a 42-key low-profile split keyboard designed by DreaM117er -- with PG1316S switches and Azoteq trackpad.
- Saoto Tsuchiya's Pineapple60 project is a set of ergo keyboard PCBs for ThinkPads -- with trackpoint.
- Chad Transtrum's nice unibody split with encoder: the Charlieflex.
- The Sweek is earvingad's version of the Ferris/Sweep.
- This split comes with lower controller mounting: KOMETA by inpudiy.
- Andrew Rudenko's rkbrd3 is a 3D-printed wireless parametric split with keywell.
- A feature-rich open-source 65% keyboard PCB: Aryess by Pioz.
- Summa Cogni's Mathpad is a dedicated device that makes it easy to type equations.
As always: much more news and resources in my weekly editorial write-up, switch database, MK meetup calendar and keyboard shop database - with 500+ keyboard vendors!
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Weekly keyboard art
Qi65 side profile shot by RandomKeebs.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, Upgrade Keyboards, Aiksplace, @keebio, Cyboard, Jacob Mikesell, KEEBD, littlemer-the-second, @kaleid1990, Timo, TALPKEYBOARD, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Brendan P., Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, James McCleese, Ben M, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, Clacky, Stefan S., Alex Miller, Matthias Goffette, Trey Causey, Dylan Ingham, Gordon Diggs, HLPlanet, Cloyce, Mario S., Hating TheFruit, Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Shnobble, Jesse L., Hana Lee, Andres Sakk, Davidjohn Gerena, nutylabs, s_p_l_o_d_e, Ikasaya, Technofrikus, Dickiedyce, drudru.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)