Issue #194 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #194
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips, ideas, discount codes, etc!
Hey y'all,
A few notable keyboard-related projects I thought were worth highlighting this time around:
- Here are June's best-selling switches, your top picks based on sales data provided by 16 vendors and manufacturers.
- Review: The magnetic Mercury V75 Pro HE -- hand-painted aluminum alloy case, carbon plate, the hallmark alien legs, and all the Hall-effect features for competitive gamers. Another masterpiece by GravaStar.
- Heatwave is a 36-key wireless, curved unibody split keyboard by dohn-joh -- with integrated lever keycaps.
- Sergei Silnov's Aronia is now open source: a ultra-low profile foldable unibody split.
- Alex Grau made the Smashboard, an ortholinear Bluetooth split keyboard.
- A compact, no-frills, and cheap ergo split: Slimkeeb36 by Keji Li.
- An open-source 75/80% keyboard with encoder and display: Easy75 by Eddy Zhao.
- A wireless low-pro split by Andrew: the open-source Scyboard.
- A low-pro split keyboard by meepodeep: the ErgoDecks with two independent Bluetooth halves.
- An open-source 6x5 ortho board by derEchteJan.
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. (And here are all the keyboard stores in the database.)
Weekly keyboard art
I liked these stackable artisan boxes by TNdesignstudio.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, Upgrade Keyboards, Aiksplace, @keebio, Cyboard, Jacob Mikesell, KEEBD, littlemer-the-second, Timo, @kaleid1990, TALPKEYBOARD, ghsear.ch, Brendan P., u/motfalcon, FFKeebs, Bob Cotton, @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., HLPlanet, Alex Miller, Matthias Goffette, Trey Causey, Cloyce, Dylan Ingham, Mario S., Gordon Diggs, Duncan B., BeaverKeys, Hating TheFruit, HubertTheMad, Hana Lee, Shnobble, Jesse L., Andres Sakk, Davidjohn Gerena, nutylabs, Hal Frigaard, Ikasaya, rollolinsky, s_p_l_o_d_e, drudru, Technofrikus, Dickiedyce, George S.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)