Issue #209 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #209
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:
- March’s top mechanical switches are here. As usual, I tried to aggregate real sales data coming from a bunch of kind vendors and manufacturers, to get the community’s favorite switch models.
- Review: I tested KiiBOOM's wireless Phantom 98 keyboard. An acrylic beauty, nicely matching the cool Pixelpop Arcade keycap set.
- Extra review: The Dareu Cool68 is a 65% magnetic gamer keyboard with very nice housing design, featuring unique ambient light diffusers.
- A 36-key split keyboard with rotary encoders and hardware debouncing: Cirrus40 by schuay.
- Vostok Labs' 20/20 is an ortho split keyboard with nice handwiring.
- This yet-to-be-named unibody split is a handwired board by flixo.
- An open-source 58-key split with RJ45 sockets: Pando58 by Julian Yap.
- A 36-key unibody ergonomic keyboard: Hollow Wood designed by Mefred.
- The Hector36 is a compact wireless split keyboard by ezxzeng -- with splay.
- A Piantor-derivative by Tom Strowger. 36-key low-pro alu split keyboard driven by wireless XIAOs.
Save some money
There are 196 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
Pixel/keycap art in a Detroit hotel. Shared by brotherbrine.
This issue’s supporters
MoErgo Glove80, splitkb.com, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, @keebio, BeaverKeys, Jacob Mikesell, Timo, KEEBD, littlemer-the-second, TALPKEYBOARD, @kaleid1990, Brendan P., ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Ben M, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Caleb Rand, Micah Alpern, Hana Lee, James McCleese, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, Stefan S., Penk Chen, Clacky, Trey Causey, Mario S., Cloyce, Dylan Ingham, Gordon Diggs, RGBKeys, Matthias Goffette, Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Jesse L., Andres Sakk, Hating TheFruit, Shnobble, barraGOUDA, Ikasaya, TurtleKeebs, Technofrikus, Dickiedyce, drudru, Davidjohn Gerena, Filip Salo, TurkeyBoards, 0xcircuitbreaker, Chase M., sungo, Derek Tam, s_p_l_o_d_e, Raphael S.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
