Issue #197 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #197
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:
- Keyboard review: KiiBOOM's Phantom81 Lite is a cute wireless 75% keyboard with silly froggy keycap design -- in a shiny molded ABS case.
- An open-source 50% keyboard with touchpad: Fifty by luteron6.
- A split by Dominic Holifield: the Split42 with a single controller and I/O expanders.
- Cata is a 34-key ortholinear keyboard with Gateron KS-33 switches -- shared by skarmann.
- An open-source split with joysticks, shared by hex4: Glyph.
- FearlessSpiff published the Ravensplit, the split version of his Raveniung.
- Glitch860 teased a rather uncommon layout with the angled monoblock Num64.
- A tiny wireless split by k3peta: Tiny18 -- and yes, the name refers to the number of keys.
- Stephan Møller came up with a nice open-source split and a cool keyboard name: Mike Typeson.
As always: much more news and resources in my weekly editorial write-up, switch database, MK meetup calendar and keyboard shop database - with 600+ keyboard vendors!
Save some money
There are 181 keyboard shops accepting the KBDNEWS coupon code and offering you various discounts. New addition: CTRLshop (CZ). (And here are all the keyboard stores in the database.)
Weekly keyboard art
This Cosmic Sans layout belongs to the art column. Photo by hauterloo92.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, Upgrade Keyboards, Aiksplace, @keebio, Cyboard, Jacob Mikesell, KEEBD, Timo, littlemer-the-second, @kaleid1990, TALPKEYBOARD, Brendan P., ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, BeaverKeys, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, HLPlanet, James McCleese, Ben M, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, Stefan S., Clacky, Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Matthias Goffette, Dylan Ingham, Cloyce, Hana Lee, Gordon Diggs, Mario S., Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Hating TheFruit, Shnobble, Jesse L., Andres Sakk, Davidjohn Gerena, nutylabs, Ikasaya, drudru, Technofrikus, s_p_l_o_d_e, Dickiedyce, 0xcircuitbreaker, Filip S., TurkeyBoards.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)