Weekly BTS #2023/36 - 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:
- Shared by Jurica Bacurin, the juriform36 is a 36-key wireless split keyboard with keywell.
- Radliński Ignacy designed a Dactyl-like ergo split in Fusion360 – the Basilisk.
- FOREVER-1 by Protieusz is a monoblock split with an encoder and trackpad in the center à la GRIN Quern.
- Evgenii Vilkov shared his half-keyboard GameBoard, optimized for gaming.
- Kotte's Batoid is a handwired monoblock split in a cute case. Small footprint, big personality.
- Temper – a wireless-only split keyboard by raeedcho, based on the Chocofi.
- Open Deck is a macropad with a customizable image behind every key – shared by joshr120.
- Alakuu from Skree.us revised his flexible PCBs and designed a new XIAO-Flex MCU breakout board.
- Some commercial or closed-source products: Erez announced the Voyager, the first low-pro board by ZSA. Rhino Pad is a macropad for CAD by Kea Workshop. Zensai 65 is a wooden 65% keyboard by ori-kobo. And the Zireael, a Corne-like wireless split in plastic or aluminum case, is still in the making.
- Diderot effect: Megalodon Lumine is a macropad and display platform for action figures. Fragrance keyboards -- I really wasn't expecting this -- shared by Idobao.
- LevelType is typing practice app written in Go, focusing on spacegrams. It runs in console, and there's no WPM, no backspace/del either. How does that sound? Makes sense to me but the UI/UX needs an upgrade.
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This issue’s supporters
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, MKUltra, Aiksplace, @keebio, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, Sean Grady, @kaleid1990, Jacob Mikesell, KEEBD, cdc, Jason Hazel, 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
Full artisan OSRS keyboard by shadygowon.