Issue #211 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #211
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:
- Let's start with April’s top mechanical switches if you haven't seen it yet: the community’s favorites based on vendor sales data coming from all around the world.
- Review: A very affordable magnetic board punching above its weight -- Epomaker HE68 Lite.
- Another review: KiiBOOM's Phantom 98 Lite, a cute wireless keyboard with 1800-ish layout and the silly froggy keycap design familiar from the smaller Phantom 81 Lite.
- The Levels54, a dual-trackball wireless split keyboard sold by ergokeyboards.com, is now fully open source.
- DreaM117er's Vanguard Keyboard Outsider is a modular ortholinear board, supporting various trackpads and encoders.
- A wireless version of Bruce the Keyboard: Willis by Alexander Krikun. Oldie but goodie.
- Tucky Two Times is a low-pro split keyboard with funny placement of the thumb keys -- by Stephan Møller.
- The handwired split Hawk by VBNC8 features latching pushbuttons and molded weights.
Save some money
There are 171 keyboard shops accepting the KBDNEWS coupon code now, offering you various discounts. Yeah, a huge drop -- I cleaned up the list of vendors and removed incactive ones.
(And here are all the keyboard stores in the database.)
Weekly keyboard art
Bruce the Evangelion - posted by Meatslinger. Custom keycaps from YUZU keycaps.
This issue’s supporters
MoErgo Glove80, splitkb.com, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, @keebio, BeaverKeys, Jacob Mikesell, Timo, KEEBD, TALPKEYBOARD, @kaleid1990, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Ben M, FFKeebs, Bob Cotton, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, Caleb Rand, u/eighty58five, Hana Lee, Micah Alpern, James McCleese, zzeneg, RGBKeys, Spencer Dabell, Anatolii Smolianinov, Stefan S., Penk Chen, Clacky, Trey Causey, Mario S., Cloyce, Dylan Ingham, Gordon Diggs, TurtleKeebs, Duncan B., Matthias Goffette, HubertTheMad, Andres Sakk, Shnobble, Hating TheFruit, barraGOUDA, Ikasaya, drudru, Technofrikus, Dickiedyce, Filip Salo, TurkeyBoards, Davidjohn Gerena, Felix K., Chase M., sungo, Derek Tam, Tibo L., s_p_l_o_d_e, Raphael S.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
