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.

There are 12 entries in this issue:

Editorial

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

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

• More than a year after the announcement, Pangaea 1.2 with its notoriously flexible layout has been released.
• Hide-key's new design is a Christmas ornament shaped macropad with X switches. (source)
• Hide-key's another macropad design: Sunflower #001.

• Fusion by steven4012 updated with a supercap and solar charging. (source)
• Technofrikus shared a case design for Pylon's Boston, a compact 120%. (source)
• The 0xCB Helios is an Elite-C compatible development board sporting an RP2040 chip. (source)
• A keyboard designed entirely in Python – by hsgwchan. (source)

• This cool Berthold fototype diatronic typesetting machine was spotted by OnlineLion. (source)

• Squidgeefish hacked a rotary dial into a mechanical keyboard, replacing the numpad. (source)
• OGRE is a doomsday or simply field cyberdeck, a knock-off of Jay Doscher's Recover Kit. Shared by rmw156. (source)

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