Issue #207 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #207
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: February’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 Womier SK80 Pro Kanagawa is a tri-mode wireless board coming with Great Wave overdose -- including a matching mouse pad and wrist rest.
- I made a Switch Quiz to find the best switches for you. Answer a few quick questions to narrow down hundreds of models from the switch database.
- Dane Lipscombe's Koumori is a low-profile unibody split keyboard with trackpad.
- Scybin's Chitin is an open-source wireless split with a tiny trackball.
- A spartan split keyboard with some considerable pinky offset: Underset by humanplayer2.
- Nick Coughlin's Ground Control 40 is a 40% open-source ortho keyboard designed for rapid prototyping.
- Two Sweep derivatives with splay: RAII by unspecworks -- wired or wireless.
- Yuburoll's DASIC is a symmetrical Alice-style split keyboard with reversible PCB.
- A new ergo keycap profile for columnar layouts: Bobslei by Beelb0u.
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 194 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
Classy modding job by Particular_Hawk_2356 -- HHKB-izing with a blocker top case.
This issue’s supporters
MoErgo Glove80, splitkb.com, 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, u/eighty58five, Daniel Nikolov, Caleb Rand, Micah Alpern, James McCleese, Ben M, Hana Lee, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, Stefan S., Clacky, Trey Causey, Dylan Ingham, Cloyce, Gordon Diggs, Mario S., Matthias Goffette, Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Jesse L., Andres Sakk, Hating TheFruit, Shnobble, barraGOUDA, Ikasaya, RGBKeys, Technofrikus, Davidjohn Gerena, Dickiedyce, drudru, 0xcircuitbreaker, Filip Salo, TurkeyBoards, Chase M., sungo, Derek Tam, s_p_l_o_d_e, Nelson M. C.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
