Issue #195 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #195
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:
- Review: The NPKC RO75, NPKClub's first self-developed model, is a bang-for-your-buck 75% wireless keyboard in a hefty alu case, with cool matching keycap sets. I received this from Apos Audio, thanks!
- Mike Hölscher released the files of his mikecinq, a ultra low-profile monoblock split keyboard featuring PG1316S switches.
- Dane Lipscombe's Harite v3 is another iteration on his directional keyboard, now with 4-way joysticks.
- A diodeless version of the original, using graph theory this time: Gamma Omega TC36k.
- Brian Schwind shared his key-ripper keyboard, with custom Rust firmware.
- A rarely seen beast: an open-source fullsize keyboard, the Alcatel100, shared by nearestexit.
- The Raven is a 42-key wireless split by ohemaag.
- HedgeHog is a new low-pro keycap profile by turtle-bazon. Uniform, spherical, supporting Choc and MX stems and spacings.
- New sculpted low-profile keycaps by pseudoku too: Subliminal Contradiction. The next iteration on the DES profile.
- Introduced by Jan-Philipp Fischer, YADS is a dongle screen for ZMK.
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 177 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 like this angle of the Soleil. Posted by CannonKeys.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, Upgrade Keyboards, Aiksplace, @keebio, Cyboard, Jacob Mikesell, KEEBD, Timo, littlemer-the-second, @kaleid1990, TALPKEYBOARD, ghsear.ch, Brendan P., u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, James McCleese, Ben M, zzeneg, HLPlanet, Anatolii Smolianinov, Spencer Dabell, Penk Chen, Stefan S., Clacky, Alex Miller, Matthias Goffette, Trey Causey, Cloyce, Gordon Diggs, Mario S., Dylan Ingham, Hana Lee, Duncan B., BeaverKeys, Hating TheFruit, HubertTheMad, Shnobble, Jesse L., Andres Sakk, Davidjohn Gerena, nutylabs, Ikasaya, s_p_l_o_d_e, drudru, Technofrikus, Dickiedyce, 0xcircuitbreaker, Filip S., TurkeyBoards
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)