Issue #198 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #198
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:
- In this most recent overview of your favorite mechanical switches, here are August's top picks, based on real sales data provided by 18 vendors and manufacturers - representing 1 million switches sold.
- Review: The Cornix is an awesome prebuilt Corne-derivative, designed for the masses by Jezail Funder Studio: wireless, CNC alu case, cool tenting, great sound and feel. I love it! (Yep, it is my daily driver now.) The KBDNEWS coupon offers a noticeable discount, but only for the first 100 purchases.
- RGBKB shared the majestic Banana keyboard, a funky split not only for monkeys. This promising unibody keyboard is open hardware, but US folks can buy it too [GB]. Support Legonut's work if you can!
- A low-profile, minimalistic 40-key split keyboard designed for simplicity by Lucas Merritt: Aurora40.
- The updated Tempest by Oliver Thurley features a snap-off pinky key.
- A 42-key low-profile wireless split keyboard: Corneucopia by DynamicWhiteHat.
- Chalk is a 42-key ultra-low profile keyboard with PG1316s switches, shared by eqlair.
- Maksim Esyunin's Keyatura is a 36-key ergo monoblock split keyboard with Choc/MX switch support.
- The Leptosis by Cheyao is a 7.5 mm ULP wireless split, another project with PG1316 switches.
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 184 keyboard shops accepting the KBDNEWS coupon code and offering you various discounts. New addition: Womier, RGBKB, and Astro Keyboards. (And here are all the keyboard stores in the database.)
Weekly keyboard art
This cutie is the Splitty Kitty, weighing a jaw-dropping 6 kg. Available at Unikeys. The KBDNEWS coupon code should work too.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, Upgrade Keyboards, Aiksplace, Cyboard, @keebio, Jacob Mikesell, KEEBD, Timo, littlemer-the-second, @kaleid1990, TALPKEYBOARD, Brendan P., ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, BeaverKeys, Micah Alpern, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, HLPlanet, James McCleese, Ben M, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, Clacky, Stefan S., Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Matthias Goffette, Dylan Ingham, Hana Lee, Cloyce, Gordon Diggs, Mario S., Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Hating TheFruit, Jesse L., Shnobble, Andres Sakk, Davidjohn Gerena, nutylabs, Ikasaya, Technofrikus, Dickiedyce, drudru, Evan Hatch, s_p_l_o_d_e, 0xcircuitbreaker, Filip S., TurkeyBoards, Derek T., Jannis L.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)