Issue #206 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #206
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:
- Market overview: January’s top switches, the community’s current favorites based on vendor feedback. 18 shops and manufacturers have contributed their detailed sales data, representing a sample of 1 million switches sold.
- Review: The Magi65 Pro by IQUNIX is easily the most refined 65% wireless low-profile aluminum keyboard to cross my desk.
- A purely declarative split keyboard designed via ergogen: Shoedler54 by Simon Schödler.
- Nikita Shirokov's Lapka 42 is a wireless low-profile split keyboard with splay.
- Yuburoll's ANSIC is a uniformly row-staggered 40-42 key split keyboard.
- An open-source, low-profile, portable, pseudo-split steno keyboard: ObiWanStenobit by ivndbt.
- The aphelo30 is MajinEvelyn's open-source, wireless split keyboard design -- without thumb keys for a reason.
- Justin Lam's Dabao is an open-source, low-profile keyboard, usable both as a unibody or split device.
- The GlassToKey by disarmyouwitha is an attempt to use the Apple Magic Trackpad as a keyboard (and mouse).
- The Snake is a 40% semi-ortho keyboard. PCB by 1000eyes, extra case by Technofrikus.
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 193 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
Ceramic wrist rest by ClayonKey - with raw lacquer finishing.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, @keebio, Jacob Mikesell, BeaverKeys, Timo, KEEBD, littlemer-the-second, TALPKEYBOARD, @kaleid1990, Brendan P., ghsear.ch, HLPlanet, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, Micah Alpern, James McCleese, Ben M, Hana Lee, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Penk Chen, Anatolii Smolianinov, Stefan S., Clacky, Alex Miller, Trey Causey, Cloyce, Dylan Ingham, Gordon Diggs, Mario S., Matthias Goffette, Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Jesse L., Andres Sakk, Hating TheFruit, Shnobble, Ikasaya, Davidjohn Gerena, barraGOUDA, Technofrikus, Dickiedyce, drudru, Lee L., TurkeyBoards, 0xcircuitbreaker, Filip Salo, Chase M., sungo, s_p_l_o_d_e, Derek Tam, Nghi H., Joerg L.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
