Keyboard Builders' Digest / Editorial
Behind the Scenes of Issue 98
Rolco-60, ergohaven interview, Chosfox CFX samples, new discount, lots of meetups, etc.
Published October 7, 2022
Hey y'all,
Welcome back for another edition of Keyboard Builders' Digest (this time Issue #98), a weekly roundup of this DIY keyboard focused newsletter and blog from Tamas Dovenyi – that's me. If you are new to this, you can read how this started out and what this is all about nowadays. If you like what you see, you can subscribe to the newsletter (free) and donate some bucks to keep this otherwise free and ad-free project alive.
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Ergohaven interview
As indicated, I'm working on a handful of interviews simultaneously. The progress depends mostly on the interviewees. ;) This time we finished one with ergohaven-founder Evgeny.
Since he's based in Russia, beside the usual keyboard stuff we had to address the apparent elephant in the room as well.
Rolco-60
Sorry for the potato shots and also for making photos of a keyboard before cleaning…
Anyway, I've never seen anything like this Rolco-60 from 1989 and had to buy it. ;)
Despite clicking through the whole Deskthority wiki, I can't identify the switches. Feel free to get back to me if you recognize them.
More info in the post and some more close-ups on imgur.
Chosfox
Chosfox sent me this sample of the larger CFX caps, as well as some homing ones. Thanks Robin! More photos later, related post on the newest CFX caps here.
FYI, Chosfox is one of the 70+ shops offering discounts via the KBDNEWS coupon code. Just tellin'. ;)
Vendor database
- Ascend Keyboards offered you a 5% discount. Use the KBDNEWS coupon code.
- PovertyKeys added.
Meetup database
Lisboa, Bucuresti (and the archive Moscow one) – these records were added AFTER the event. Honestly, this breaks my heart.
Luckily, more and more meetups make their way into the database in advance. ;)
As always, this meetup database is both a calendar and an archive so feel free to send me upcoming events or even ones from the recent past to make this collection as comprehensive as possible.
Donors
No new donors this week.
Many thanks to my recurring donors!
Donate some bucks if you can afford it and think the features of this blog are worthy of some support.
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That's all for today. Thanks for reading.
Feel free to comment in this issue's r/mk thread, and as always: keep learning and building.
Cheers, Tamás
Published on Fri 7th Oct 2022. Featured in KBD #98.
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