Issue #203 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #203
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:
- My regular monthly switch market overview is out, with November’s top mechanical switches -- the community’s favorites based on vendor sales data. (If you've already seen this, I've added Gateron's list after Friday's reddit post.)
- Review: A head-turning 75%-ish Hall-effect board with circular touch display and knob: this is the Battleye 74.5 RT by Dry Studio -- for sophisticated gamers. Not a gimmick, the real-time actuation feedback makes sense while setting up your board.
- The next iteration of Chris Trotter's ArcBoard is here. You know, this is the crazy setup with a bunch of features including foot pedals. Mk20 comes with a lot of improvements.
- The DYA Dash is a nice wireless split project by Cormoran: low-pro, touch sensors, trackball.
- Yuburoll's Boardloaf is an open-source 36-key split keyboard with MX keys.
- An Atreus-inspired monoblock keyboard by Mae Pugin: the wireless KaSe with OLED.
- Gareth Gummow's ortholinear Tentacle is using the author's SquidHID firmware.
- Vostok Labs' Baikal is a beginner-friendly, handwired, wireless Corne build with step-by-step instructions.
- A clean and simple open-source split keyboard by Terence-1.
- And an RP2040-based modular macropad system by Juho T.: the Suutari20 using TRRS sockets and jacks to connect all the gadgets to a central unit.
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 189 keyboard shops accepting the KBDNEWS coupon code now, offering you various discounts. Latest additions: inputgear.de (EU) and Angry Miao (CN). (And here are all the keyboard stores in the database.)
Weekly keyboard art
I like this side profile. HaiZeus' Denali shot by dakfu_..
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, Upgrade Keyboards, Aiksplace, Cyboard, @keebio, 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., Clacky, Hana Lee, Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Dylan Ingham, Cloyce, Gordon Diggs, Matthias Goffette, Mario S., Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Jesse L., Hating TheFruit, Andres Sakk, Shnobble, Davidjohn Gerena, Ikasaya, Technofrikus, Dickiedyce, drudru, 0xcircuitbreaker, Filip Salo, TurkeyBoards, s_p_l_o_d_e, barraGOUDA, Chase M., sungo, Derek Tam.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
