Issue 109 / Keyboard Builders' Digest
Keyboard Builders’ Digest #109
Check out the new issue with awesome projects, tips and ideas!
Hey y'all,
Here are the posts I thought were worth sharing this week:
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As the last post of the Advent Calendar, Nick Brassel (@tzarc), one of QMK’s Directors, told us about how he wasn’t satisfied with keyboards only having basic functionality.
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More than a year after the announcement, Pangaea 1.2 with its notoriously flexible layout has been released.
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Two projects from Hide-key: a Christmas ornament shaped macropad with X switches, and another unique design — Sunflower #001.
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Fusion by steven4012 updated with a supercap and solar charging.
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Technofrikus shared a case design for Pylon's Boston, a compact 120%.
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The 0xCB Helios is an Elite-C compatible development board sporting an RP2040 chip.
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A keyboard designed entirely in Python – by hsgwchan.
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This cool Berthold fototype diatronic typesetting machine was spotted by OnlineLion.
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Squidgeefish hacked a rotary dial into a mechanical keyboard, replacing the numpad.
This issue’s supporters
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.
(You are awesome! Thanks everyone!)
Behind the Scenes
This week’s topics of my behind the scenes series:
Dead week, giveaway feedback, vendor database updates, etc.
Weekly keyboard art
A cyberdeck concept by Moehrenstein (source).