Weekly BTS #2023/38 - 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:
- Quentin Lebastard of Bastard Keyboards, designer of the Charybdis and Dilemma, answered my questions about his work and designs before the release of the Dilemma Max.
- I tested the M4CR0Pad by Ergohaven and thought it would be interesting to demonstrate the ease of setting it up, along with a typical use case: image processing.
- Nakamura Hideki announced the testamatta #011, a nice low-pro unibody angled split keyboard.
- New LEGO-compatible board announced by KBDcraft: Lilith is also 60%, but it comes in a new case with 5.5 typing angle and in both ANSI/ISO flavors!
- As already mentioned last week, Maximus is a unibody split with trackpad by Protieusz -- inspired by Daraku-Neko's Ieneko42c. Now with case STLs and Gerbers.
- Cyberdeck: Giga40 update with HIGOLEPC -- committed by mujimanic.
- Tools: Vial to Keymap Drawer by YellowAfterlife takes your Vial .vil layouts and converts them to YAML that you can pass to keymap-drawer. And keyfab, a promising keyboard layout design tool by Jaroslaw Weber.
- Mod: notshitashi made a Glove80 with a trackpoint -- with details and lots of WIP photos.
- Keyboard art -- So much attention to detail: EX-00 -- a heavily customized AM AFA R1 by TheExStudio. A
life-sizehuman size keyswitch out of cardboard (by i_like_miniwheats). Keebio Cepstrum illustration/map by jadepug. And this Jabberwocky with the tasty wooden wrist rest belongs to this column too I guess. - Weekly Diderot effect: colorful replacement feet for Halo keyboards. And a slightly over-engineered suspension system with gas cylinders. ('but why?!')
- Typing game in the making: Kanji Kitchen by MochiDev. Learn Japanese while clicking and clacking -- with in-game keyboards and keyboard sounds. Coming later this year on Steam.
For even more resources, check out my weekly editorial write-up, MK meetup calendar and keyboard shop database -- with 500+ keyboard vendors, 100+ of them offering various discounts and coupons for you!
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, Richard Sutherland, Joel Simpson, DROP, @therick0996, Christian Mladenov, Lev Popov, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Schnoor Typography, Caleb Rand, Spencer Blackwood, Skyler Thuss, Yuan Liu, Mats Faugli, James McCleese, Benjamin Bell, TurtleKeebs, Matthias Goffette, Ergohaven, Davidjohn Gerena, Hating TheFruit, zzeneg, anonymous, Anatolii Smolianinov, Spencer Dabell, Penk Chen.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Weekly keyboard art
Keebio Cepstrum illustration by jadepug.