Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the (Mc)Cool Typewriter

Illustrated Kristina with an IBM Model M keyboard floating between her hands.

Okay, so this isn’t a traditional keyboard, but you can probably figure out why the RuneRing is here. Because it’s awesome! Now, let me give you the finer points. Hugely …read more Continue reading Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the (Mc)Cool Typewriter

2022 Cyberdeck Contest: Keezyboost40 is a Cyberdeck Masquerading as a Keyboard

An ortholinear keyboard with predominantly blank white keycaps. There are two red keycaps on the bottom outside corners. The center of the keyboard houses a large LCD in portrait orientation on a red PCB.

There’s something to be said for über-powerful cyberdecks, but there’s also a certain appeal to less powerful decks squeezed into a tiny form factor. [Christian Lo] has designed a cyberdeck …read more Continue reading 2022 Cyberdeck Contest: Keezyboost40 is a Cyberdeck Masquerading as a Keyboard

TypeMatrix EZ-Reach 2030 is Better Than Your Laptop Keyboard

Maybe you’re not ready to take the leap into a full-on ergonomic split keyboard. That’s okay, that’s cool, that’s understandable. They’re weird! Especially ones like my Kinesis Advantage with the …read more Continue reading TypeMatrix EZ-Reach 2030 is Better Than Your Laptop Keyboard

Cybercube Makes a Great Computing Companion

Oh, sure, there have been a few cube-shaped PCs over the years, like the G4 and the NeXT cube. But can they really be called cubes when the display and the inputs were all external? We think not.

[ikeji] doesn’t think so either, and has created a cube PC that …read more

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40% Keyboard Build is 100% Open Source

[Blake]’s interest in building keyboards happened naturally enough — he was looking for a new project to work on and fell into the treasure chest that is the mechanical keyboard community. It sounds like he hasn’t built anything but keyboards since then, and we can absolutely relate.

This tidy 40% …read more

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Breakaway Keyboard PCB Makes Customization a Snap

Once upon a time, keyboards were something that you took with you from computer to computer, because most of them were built quite nicely. After a few dark decades of membrane keyboards being the norm, the rise of the mechanical keyboard community has shined a light on what is possible …read more

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Bluetooth Takes Keyboard from DIY to Super Fly

They say you should never cheap out on anything that comes between you and the ground, like tires, shoes, and mattresses. We would take that a little further into the 21st century and extend it to anything between you and work. In our case, ‘buy nice or buy twice’ includes …read more

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