Weekly BTS #2023/29 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Weekly BTS
Hey y'all,
Another quick summary this week. A handful of links from the blog and my weekly editorial post:
- The Bonsai C3 controller is back, with an exclusive price for you. We exchanged some mails with David (CustomMK) about the microcontroller market, pricing and about this restock. Thanks for the insight and the coupon code!
- Corsair is acquiring "certain assets" from Drop. Initially, it was not clear if the deal involved Geekhack (acquired by Drop in 2018): it does, but there will be no changes to Geekhack for the foreseeable future.
- Ryan Schenk's Tern, a Hummingbird variant, and Dwctor's Kaly42 inspired by a caliper(?) made it to the front page.
- Let's call this 24-key split Nydas after Andy, an Australian data engineer who enjoys making sub-40% custom keyboards.
- An Amtelco KB163 posted by Argan12345. A huge battleship with Cherry Blacks, used by call center folks. Video by Click and Thock.
- Still too small? What about 170 keys? A bespoke Genovation K170 posted by piccino. ("My colleagues make fun of me, but I'm 10 times more efficient.")
- Skywatch is an interesting monoblock orthoish split with Pimoroni trackball and display, designed by celikozkan. Just a photo at the moment, may feature it later if I have more info about this project. Özkan told me he will share all the files.
- SpUnLy58 is a splayed unibody by Giraffasax with custom MBK caps. To be pushed to Github after rerouting.
Supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, MKUltra, Aiksplace, @keebio, Upgrade Keyboards, @kaleid1990, Sean Grady, Cyboard, Jacob Mikesell, KEEBD, cdc, Jason Hazel, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, littlemer-the-second, Bob Cotton, kiyejoco, Christian Lo, FFKeebs, @therick0996, Richard Sutherland, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Daniel Nikolov, Spencer Blackwood, Skyler Thuss, u/eighty58five, Yuan Liu, Caleb Rand, Schnoor Typography, Mats Faugli, James McCleese, Davidjohn Gerena, Benjamin Bell, Matthias Goffette, Hating TheFruit, Fabian Suceveanu, Ergohaven, anonymous, Alex Havermale, Anatolii Smolianinov, Spencer Dabell, Patchesweaver, macakeg.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
Qlavier built an on-the-go keyboard for a streamer to attend TwitchCon in Paris.