Weekly BTS #2023/34 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Weekly BTS
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
Here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week. A handful of links from the blog:
- I reviewed the Planeta, a clean and simple monoblock split keyboard by Ergohaven – with piezo speaker.
- An interview with Morgan Venable, creator of Svalboard, who talks about his awesome project and the reinvention of the Datahand keyboard.
- Gleb Sabirzyanov made and sells a single piece of Deathpad, and tells us about this one-of-a-kind macropad with 9 keys at the hearth of a death metal inspired case.
- The Fanta-Manta by Protieusz is a resurrection of the closed source Manta by rainkeebs.
- NoSegfaultPlz published his CyberKeeb 2040, which is both a mechanical keyboard and a cyberdeck.
- Quirk shared the design files of his Cut Slope, an orthoish unibody split with splayed outer column.
- Strange-Lab5541 has updated his handwired split with the retro keycaps: fisk 2.0 is here.
- Pamungkas Sumasta's AI-powered kAiBoard is an internet-connected device powered by ChatGPT with built-in virtual assistant, redefining user interaction.
- DreaM117er's Explorer Mountain is a modular monoblock split supporting a wide range of switches.
- braindefender's low-pro KLP Lamé caps now also with MX stems.
- Monkeyboard aka supersplit -- not new, Tarneo made this a year ago (github).
- Cherry announced the new MX2A switches with "high-precision ring lubrication" and "barrel spring" -- just to name a few features. I can't tell if these are mere buzzwords or really make a difference. Will see!
- Penk's first (handwired) builds with resin-casted MOBOP caps.
Check out my weekly editorial write-up for even more resources!
This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, MKUltra, Aiksplace, @keebio, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, Sean Grady, @kaleid1990, Jacob Mikesell, Jason Hazel, KEEBD, cdc, kiyejoco, littlemer-the-second, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Christian Lo, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, @therick0996, DROP, Richard Sutherland, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Daniel Nikolov, Skyler Thuss, u/eighty58five, Spencer Blackwood, Schnoor Typography, Caleb Rand, Yuan Liu, Mats Faugli, Ergohaven, Benjamin Bell, James McCleese, Matthias Goffette, Davidjohn Gerena, Hating TheFruit, anonymous, TurtleKeebs, Spencer Dabell, 池上 昌明, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
Cute Lego typewriter posted by @mwichary.