Issue 147 / Week 50 / 2023
This is a hand-picked selection of last week's content from a keyboard enthusiast's perspective. Posts that may teach you something, make you think and contribute to the common knowledge of the DIY builder community.
There are 4+7 entries in this issue:
Editorial
Behind the scenes #147
Quick news, in the mailbox, meetups, new vendors and discount codes!
Projects
Qazikat
A clever PCB with two different layout options, one on each side: Qazikat by weteor.
Sentinel
ProtieusKeeb's monoblock Sentinel, inspired by Le Chiffre, comes with an interchangeable trackball unit.
Nyan Keys
An FPGA based mechanical keyboard engineered for low latency and open sourced by rekcats – Nyan Keys.
Quick news
Reverb IC/GB at mechboards.co.uk. This unibody split is too cool to not to be featured despite my general reservations about group buys.
More open source: bx01 gaming keyboard/macropad by Baxtrom and a beefy split (or two) by PaxUX.
Tool: rianadon open sourced the Cosmos generator. Related blog post.
The humbly named Masterpiece I/O from Masterpiece, a two-sibling company.
Triple shot PBT caps by Ducky. But why lowercase latin alphas as sublegends?!
Week of giveaways on r/mk. I was relieved when these were banned on the sub but I can live with it for a week. In addition, last time I discovered some new vendors unknown to me, so now I may stumble upon new discoveries too (I did!).
Inspiration: Fluorite artisans by KeycapQuarry, and Sneakbox's u/mujimanic put a watch in an artisan keycap.
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, ZSA Technology Labs, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, Upgrade Keyboards, Cyboard, Ashkeebs, Sean Grady, @kaleid1990, Jacob Mikesell, Jason Hazel, KEEBD, kiyejoco, cdc, littlemer-the-second, ghsear.ch, u/motfalcon, Christian Lo, Bob Cotton, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Daniel Nikolov, Mechboards, u/eighty58five, TurtleKeebs, Caleb Rand, Schnoor Typography, Skyler Thuss, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Mats Faugli, Benjamin Bell, James McCleese, Ben M, Matthias Goffette, Spencer Dabell, zzeneg, Hating TheFruit, Davidjohn Gerena, Anatolii Smolianinov, Penk Chen, anonymous, Clacky, Vitali Haravy, István K.
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