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Issue 109 / Week 52 / 2022

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.

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There are 12 entries in this issue:

Editorial

Behind the Scenes of Issue 109

Dead week, giveaway feedback, vendor database updates, etc.


Advent Calendar

Why on earth should a keyboard do that?

Nick Brassel (@tzarc), one of QMK’s Directors, wasn’t satisfied with keyboards only having switches and an indicator LED or three.


Projects

Pangaea released

More than a year after the announcement, Pangaea 1.2 with its notoriously flexible layout has been released.


Christmas ornament keypad

Hide-key's new design is a Christmas ornament shaped macropad with X switches.


Sunflower macropad

Hide-key's another macropad design: Sunflower #001.


Tips & Tricks

Fusion with supercap

Fusion by steven4012 updated with a supercap and solar charging.


Boston case

Technofrikus shared a case design for Pylon's Boston, a compact 120%.


0xCB Helios

The 0xCB Helios is an Elite-C compatible development board sporting an RP2040 chip.


Keyboard as Python code

A keyboard designed entirely in Python – by hsgwchan.


Keyboard Spotting

Berthold Diatronic

This cool Berthold fototype diatronic typesetting machine was spotted by OnlineLion.


Inspiration

Rotary keyboard

Squidgeefish hacked a rotary dial into a mechanical keyboard, replacing the numpad.


OGRE cyberdeck

OGRE is a doomsday or simply field cyberdeck, a knock-off of Jay Doscher's Recover Kit. Shared by rmw156.


This issue was made possible by the donations of:
splitkb.com, MoErgo Glove80, u/chad3814, Aiksplace, @keebio, @kaleid1990, MKUltra, Upgrade Keyboards, Sean Grady, Keebstuff, ghsear.ch, cdc, u/motfalcon, KEEBD, Jacob Mikesell, Bob Cotton, kiyejoco, FFKeebs, Richard Sutherland, @therick0996, Joel Simpson, littlemer-the-second, Lev Popov, Christian Mladenov, Christian Lo, Spencer Blackwood, Yuan Liu, Daniel Nikolov, u/eighty58five, Adam Batkin, Skyler Thuss, Caleb Rand, Davidjohn Gerena, Fabian Suceveanu, Arto Olli, anonymous, Mats Faugli, Hating TheFruit

Your support is crucial to help this project survive.

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