Issue #202 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #202
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:
- Review: This great wireless 75% keyboard, the alu+plastic Womier SK71 Pro, comes in cool themes, with fancy lighting, and VIA support. That magnetic lid in the top right corner hides the dongle and on/off switch. Womier definitely deserves more attention, as the ERA75 was pretty cool as well.
- Bonus review for gamers on a budget: An ultra-affordable 60% HE keyboard, the Dareu COOL60. BF sale for just $40?! Nice frosted case, matching caps, per-key RGB, wrist strap. Up to 8KHz reporting rate and 0.01mm RT resolution for gamers. Small and light: the whole board weighs only 432g.
- In addition, I enjoyed testing this great keyboard stand designed and sent to me by Clackify -- it's sturdy, functional, and looks awesome in this galaxy fuchsia color. My desk looks much more sophisticated now.
- Open-source projects: The 36ribs is a nice unibody offset ortho keyboard with exposed diodes. Designed by CREATINE0.
- A 100%-ish keyboard with split thumb clusters -- Mist by Modern Hobbyist.
- Charading's Shego75HE, an open-source 75% Hall-effect keyboard, runs QMK. Is this the first one doing so?
- Chris Lo released his loongcat40, a gasket-mounted offset ortho keyboard featuring a nice OLED.
- Yuburolls modubu is a semi-staggered 38-key split keyboard -- made for Korean layout. (Semi-staggered meaning partly ortho/colum staggered, partly horizontally offset.)
- A Bluetooth diode-free 36-key ergonomic keyboard by Peter Cock: Gamma Omega Hesse -- using graph theory. A PCB in the Gamma Omega form factor.
- A Totem-fork by Atila M. Schrieber: Totem Plus 1 -- with an extra pinky key.
- Check out the Go60 as well. The Glove80's little brother designed with portability in mind.
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
Piktish swirl keycaps by um_jao - manufactured by YUZU.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, Upgrade Keyboards, Aiksplace, @keebio, Cyboard, Jacob Mikesell, Timo, KEEBD, BeaverKeys, littlemer-the-second, @kaleid1990, 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, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, Stefan S., Hana Lee, Clacky, Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Gordon Diggs, Cloyce, Dylan Ingham, Matthias Goffette, Mario S., Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Jesse L., Hating TheFruit, Shnobble, Andres Sakk, KeyboardHoarders, Davidjohn Gerena, Ikasaya, Technofrikus, drudru, Dickiedyce, James L., 0xcircuitbreaker, Filip Salo, TurkeyBoards, s_p_l_o_d_e, barraGOUDA, Chase M., sungo, Joerg L., Derek Tam.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)