Issue #193 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #193
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips, ideas, discount codes, etc!
Hey y'all,
Quick PSA: My summer will be quite busy with multiple offgrid periods, so future issues and also the next two monthly switch market overviews may come later than usual.
And now here are a few notable keyboard-related projects I thought were worth highlighting this time around:
- Recent review: KiiBOOM Moonshadow V2. A well-built wireless 75% keyboard in a cool screwless aluminum case. Hotswap, rotary knob, VIA support.
- Fredrik Liljedahl's Ebbe34 is a custom 34-key wireless unibody split keyboard.
- Oliver Thurley's Tempest is an open-source split keyboard with some nice splay.
- Pete Johanson published his Zaphod ECBrox, a 34-key wireless EC keyboard.
- Timo Strube's SplittoDogu is a custom ergo split with plenty of keys and encoders.
- HTX Studio open sourced a cool one-handed keyboard with trackball and mouse keys.
- An open-source 56-key low-pro split and trackball: Cinque by Ken Goudey.
- A wireless macropad by James Gzowski: Shorky21 with encoders and RGB.
- Badjau's wireless split TBK Micro is a more enclosed version of the TBK Mini -- with additional OLEDs.
- A 34-key open-source split keyboard: Rye Bread Board by David Boland.
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!
Save some money
There are 178 keyboard shops accepting the KBDNEWS coupon code and offering you various discounts now -- with BerserKeys (AU), RGBKeys (NL), and Delta Keys (FR) coupons added recently. (And here are all the keyboard stores in the database.)
Weekly keyboard art
Zoom TKL Dyna back shared by Meletrix.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, Upgrade Keyboards, Aiksplace, @keebio, Cyboard, Jacob Mikesell, KEEBD, littlemer-the-second, Timo, @kaleid1990, TALPKEYBOARD, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, Brendan P., FFKeebs, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, James McCleese, Ben M, zzeneg, Anatolii Smolianinov, Spencer Dabell, Penk Chen, Stefan S., Clacky, Alex Miller, Matthias Goffette, Trey Causey, Dylan Ingham, Gordon Diggs, HLPlanet, Cloyce, Mario S., Duncan B., Hating TheFruit, Hana Lee, HubertTheMad, Shnobble, Jesse L., Davidjohn Gerena, Andres Sakk, nutylabs, D.Crowson, s_p_l_o_d_e, Ikasaya, drudru, Technofrikus, Dickiedyce
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)