Weekly BTS #2023/35 - 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:
- The long read: One year after launching his try-at-home service, Milktooth's Kevin talks about experiences and trends in the mechanical switch scene.
- A clean ortho matching the Apple aesthetics? HuibenLAB's ALU40 is a wireless mechanical keyboard with this exact goal.
- A cute 3-row project by weteor: Grumpy is a 28-key angled unibody keyboard with column stagger.
- The TypeBoy, designed by FlatFootFox, is a unique low-pro split keyboard requiring a Game Boy cartridge to function.
- The cos(y) Kong is another project by weteor, a 30 or 36 key 3-row keyboard with column stagger.
- Carpal Tunnel and Rubik's cube -- new meme boards by Rudeism.
- Ever wondered how much money a custom keyboard store makes? MtnKbd's Oldmate keeps sharing his quarterly financial statistics. Q1 2023 is out. I love this transparency, and it's also nice to see that kbd.news was one of the top referrers.
- A guide by Present_Lingonberry: finding Colemak/non-standard layout keycaps.
- Transparent split magic by @illness072. Check out his earlier posts for the trick.
- Moergo is working on a nice transport case for the Glove80. "Really for the first time, a full blown concave keyboard is portable in a standard laptop backpack -- Stephen.
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, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
メンダコGRIN concept by @policium.