About a month ago, [Unexpected Maker] finished their TinyS3, an ESP32-S3 development board. Since the chip supports both true USB and Bluetooth, [deʃhipu] wondered how well it would work in a keyboard.
Thus, the Vegemite Sandwich was made, perhaps while [deʃhipu] was dreaming of traveling in a fried-out Kombi. But really, it was named so because [Unexpected Maker] hails from Australia.
This is [deʃhipu]’s first time using switch sockets, which is (as far as we know) the only choice when it comes to hot-swappable Kailh chocs. We’ll be watching this one with hungry eyes.
Easing Into Alternate Layouts
Speaking of [deʃhipu], he said in the Hackaday Discord the other day that he was trying out [Nick Gravgaard]’s qwerty-flip, an often-arrived-at alternate layout that merely exchanges seven keys between the top row and the home row, leaving everything else rooted in the Qwertyville hills of your muscle memory. For [deʃhipu], the point was to minimize finger movement, and not necessarily to gain speed.
The idea behind qwerty-flip is to get the most common English letters — ETAOINSRHL — on the home row. I’ll spare you gif-related eyestrain: only N and L are missing, but if you want to get closer to ETAOINSRHL, [Nick] also created Spin and Twist variants, which each add either N or L ..
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