Issue #137 - Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders' Digest // Issue #137
Check out this week's editorial with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
Here are some of the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
- My latest acquisition, this fancy Intergraph AQ6 is just a rubberdome keyboard, but definitely not your usual membrane one. As the model used by John Carmack it's part of gamedev history.
- This wireless split ortho keyboard by tdilshod supports X switches -- a pretty rarely seen feature except mostly Jason Hazel's projects.
- Two boards from fmash16: KORA and SHO -- a new XIAO based 36-key Choc split keyboard.
- Yakamoz is a 50-key ortholinear keyboard by Özkan Çelik -- it comes with an OLED display, buzzer, optional trackball and RGB underglow.
- The Super 16 V3 is the latest version of this cute 4x4 macropad by 1Up Keyboards -- now with open-source PCB.
- The Svlinky is a new open-source RP2040 controller that natively supports Sadek Baroudi's VIK standard proposal.
- Slightly related: Ariamelon's Honeydew with the Kiwano VIK module (ring encoder).
- This bent metal sheet ortho by barbara_fries_hens will be open sourced in the future, just like wayduh's Orthofly -- after fixing an issue with the PCB.
- Sans -- a splayed split by ThePsychedelicSeal.
- Controllers: Other than the Svlinky, the Supermini nRF52840 was also discussed in the community this week: it's a cheaper alternative to the nice!nano 2.0, available on AliExpress. And the proXiao by aroum (referenced in the Enki42 post) belongs here too.
For even more quick news and 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, 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, @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
The Royal case by BreakWooden.