Issue #201 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #201
Check out this week's editorial with some original content, awesome projects, tips, ideas, discount codes, etc!
Hey y'all,
Here are a few notable keyboard-related posts I thought were worth highlighting this time around:
- The switch database has been updated with October’s best-selling mechanical switches, the community’s favorites based on vendor sales data.
- Review: A 65% magnetic board with awesome custom switches and extremely pleasant typing feel: Glitter65 HE by MoeeTech.
- Bonus review: The KiiBOOM Jade75 is a 75% wireless keyboard for RGB fanatics: resin case, translucent caps, fully transparent switches.
- GMK Keycap Design Contest and advent calendar.
- I love the retro-inspired Niuniu HX-40! These are the last days of the group buy.
- A 5x12 ortholinear keyboard in a Model M-inspired case: KrtkusRetro by Jan Bláha.
- Yuburoll's KeeNoard is a 38-key split keyboard with rotary encoder and multiple center key, with only one RP2040 Zero board.
- A custom Hall-effect macropad: the wireless Liberty Pad by Alexandre Moatty.
- A 36-key open-source split: the Sweep Squared by Zexx37 with great switch support.
- Aroum's c!n tester is a tool designed for testing Pro Micro-like microcontrollers: verifying pin functionality before soldering.
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 187 keyboard shops accepting the KBDNEWS coupon code now, offering you various discounts. (And here are all the keyboard stores in the database.)
Weekly keyboard art
FL-AT prototype side profile - posted by Apprehensive_park951.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, Upgrade Keyboards, Aiksplace, @keebio, Cyboard, Jacob Mikesell, KEEBD, Timo, littlemer-the-second, @kaleid1990, BeaverKeys, TALPKEYBOARD, Brendan P., ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, HLPlanet, Christian Mladenov, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, James McCleese, Ben M, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Penk Chen, Anatolii Smolianinov, Stefan S., Clacky, Hana Lee, Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Matthias Goffette, Dylan Ingham, Cloyce, Gordon Diggs, Mario S., Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Jesse L., Hating TheFruit, Andres Sakk, Shnobble, Davidjohn Gerena, Ikasaya, Technofrikus, Dickiedyce, drudru, barraGOUDA, 0xcircuitbreaker, Filip Salo, TurkeyBoards, s_p_l_o_d_e, Chase M., Jonathan F., sungo.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)