Issue #217 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #217
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: September’s top list of mechanical switches, the community’s favorites based on vendor sales data.
- Review: A sleek prebuilt unibody split keyboard: Sonsei by Dygma -- for those looking for a high-quality in-stock option.
- The Devil Breaker, a one-handed magnetic gaming keyboard by DarkBeacon, comes with TMR switches and various AI features.
- Crazy. The Trooper63 HE by XVX features a kick-ass aluminum case, dual-diffuser HE switches, dual-RGB lighting, nice carbon plate -- for just $65 at the moment.
- The Kemove K94 is a tri-mode wireless keyboard in the 96%/1800 form factor. Display, volume knob, VIA support. Great offer, now on sale.
- Tiwaz is a split keyboard by Timo Strube. With gaskets and joysticks, each half works standalone as a one-handed controller.
- A 60% wireless row-staggered split: the open-source Yuwol by Yuburoll.
- The Translator is an ergonomic keyboard with mouse sensor -- by Feeflak.
- A tiny split chording keyboard: Mesa 3 by David Brown.
- TMRZ's Stagger keyboard is staggered in pretty much every possible sense.
- This year's meme device by Gboard is the Conveyor Belt keyboard -- delivering keys straight to your fingertips.
- A funky snap-on extension for your mechanical switches to make their actuation adjustable: TriggerKey by GMK.
Save some money
There are 174 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:
- Steel City Mech Keys Meetup, October 10, Pittsburgh, PA, US
- MKIT 2026 Bologna, October 10, Bologna, Italy
- MECHANICON 2026, October 17, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Colorado MechMeets October 2026 Meetup, October 18, Lakewood, CO, US
Weekly keyboard art
SIMPOCUBIC Faint Fragrance - nice keycaps with local-language legend support. 5% discount, coupon: KBDNEWS.
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, BeaverKeys, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, @keebio, Jacob Mikesell, Timo, KEEBD, TALPKEYBOARD, RGBKeys, @kaleid1990, Felix Kuehling, Ben M, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, Schnoor Typography, Daniel Nikolov, Caleb Rand, James McCleese, zzeneg, Spencer Dabell, Stefan S., Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, Clacky, Trey Causey, Gordon Diggs, Mario S., Cloyce, Dylan Ingham, Duncan B., HubertTheMad, barraGOUDA, Andres Sakk, Shnobble, beekeeb, Hating TheFruit, Ikasaya, Technofrikus, Dickiedyce, drudru, TurkeyBoards, Filip Salo, Chase M., sungo, TurtleKeebs, Derek Tam, Davidjohn Gerena, eh.industries, Hal Frigaard, Raphael S., s_p_l_o_d_e, Milanuk M., Conor O.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
