Issue #216 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #216
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:
- Here are August’s top mechanical switches, the community’s favorites based on real sales data provided by 19 vendors and manufacturers.
- Review: The IQUNIX EC75 is a Hall-effect gamer board. Pre-built, wired, with aluminum top case and intricate PC bottom design.
- Stephan Møller's single-PCB tented unibody Leonardo KeycapRio underwent several revisions.
- Hanthebot shared the Hall-effect variant of the Silakka54, a 54-key split keyboard.
- The 42-key Cantor, now with Hall-effect switches thanks to hanthebot as well.
- Julian Yap's Pando is an open-hardware split keyboard with integrated MCU.
- Skardel is a Corne-like wireless split with OLED screens, designed by Arthur.
- Peaky 8-bit -- Toya Mimura's handheld, wireless, 2x4 key split chording keyboard for typing on the go: Peaky 8-bit.
- Alex Miller introduces a new method to prevent ghosting of keyboards using the Japanese duplex matrix.
Save some money
There are 175 keyboard shops accepting the KBDNEWS coupon code now, offering you various discounts.
And here are all the keyboard stores in the database.
Meetups
Upcoming events from the meetup calendar:
- Keeb Life 2026, September 19, Pasadena, CA, US
- Tokyo Keyboard Expo, September 23, Tokyo, JP
Weekly keyboard art
Porcelain artisan: Quiet Light butterfly caps, handmade by Deskmova Ceramic Studio. Yeah, a Kickstarter.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, BeaverKeys, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, @keebio, Jacob Mikesell, Timo, KEEBD, TALPKEYBOARD, RGBKeys, @kaleid1990, Ben M, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Christian Mladenov, @therick0996, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, Caleb Rand, James McCleese, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Penk Chen, Anatolii Smolianinov, Stefan S., Clacky, Trey Causey, Mario S., Cloyce, Dylan Ingham, Gordon Diggs, Duncan B., HubertTheMad, Andres Sakk, barraGOUDA, Shnobble, Hating TheFruit, Ikasaya, drudru, Technofrikus, Dickiedyce, beekeeb, TurkeyBoards, Filip Salo, Chase M., TurtleKeebs, sungo, Davidjohn Gerena, Derek Tam, Felix K., Hal Frigaard, Raphael S., s_p_l_o_d_e, Abraham M., Milanuk M.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
