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There's plenty of firmware tucked away in places other than the main processor. On other boards, it's proprietary.

The same argument could be applied to nearly any product. Knowing how to use the product is the user's responsibility and helping educate users is the manufacturer's responsibility…

And that's pretty much what ORWL is.

They explicitly address several attacks here: https://www.crowdsupply.com/design-shift/orwl#specific-attac...

There's also the rackmount version in case you want to put it in a colo.

I love that it reuses PCMCIA connectors, receptacles, and enclosures. All that hoarding I did in the 90s will finally pay off!

I played with one of the prototypes. It's quite nice.

The comparison table ( https://www.crowdsupply.com/krtkl/snickerdoodle#comparison-t... ) includes a bunch of common, but under powered platforms (Arduino, RPi, BBB). It should real…

1. The problem wasn't in creating the shape we wanted - that's easy with CNC. The problem was creating the cross mounting post for Cherry. The process that ended up working was som…

We plan releasing the source files for all custom hardware, including key caps, that we're designing and making for our own keyboard. We have prototypes that we're mostly happy wit…

Ah, yes, I agree that it doesn't make a lick of difference for audio connectors and that advertising gold plating is just a way to jack up the price. For this type of mechanical sw…

Since we're manufacturing the key caps ourselves, it's actually a much cheaper way to go for us.

There are quiet versions of Matias switches, but they are all clicky, which we explicitly don't want because even quiet clicky switches are loud and because of the associated fatig…

We evaluated Cherry Reds for the project, but there were several things wrong with them. In order of our priorities: 1. It's very difficult/expensive to make custom key caps that m…

Thanks for the pointer to the clear Cherry housing. I hadn't seen that. I'll look into it more and update the page accordingly. Regarding the gold plating, what's dubious about thi…

The economics of this project aren't based on funding the entire MOQ, which is much more than 3,000 switches. We'll be using many of the switches for our own project, but think the…

I'm one of the people behind this project. Yes, the custom key shapes + low activation force are the primary reason we're interested in creating these key switches.

This isn't quite as clear cut as it might seem. See, for example, the first comment for Mandarin: http://wals.info/valuesets/44A-mnd

The video is good for a laugh (not the first one - couldn't get through that, but the one farther down in the page). Reminds me of this scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGiQOC…

Nice. Providing actual app code is really helpful. Android coming soon, apparently.

I saw this on Instructables' FB page this morning and was reminded of some similar open source BLE efforts. Some of the notable ones are: Tah: BLE central role AND periperal role A…

1. Enjoyment, health, cost, in that order. 2. I don't, but my partner does. 3. Slow-cooked meats, fresh veggies, broths, fermented foods (e.g. yogurt, sauerkraut, kimchi, buttermil…

Speaking of Plover and chorded keyboards, check out this open source stenotype machine: http://stenosaurus.com Chatter on the mailing list makes is sound like it will be coming out…