hobby #73
Mechanical Keyboard Building
Assembling custom mechanical keyboards from scratch — selecting switches, soldering PCBs, tuning stabilizers, and programming firmware. The intersection of tactile engineering, electronics, and daily-use tool optimization.
Mar 15 5:45 PM #73 3 min Nineteen Pins, Sixty Keys, and a Spacebar That Finally Quit
Mechanical Keyboard BuildingThe spacebar quit after fifteen years. Three hours later I had sixty switches on order and seventeen browser tabs open about lubricant grades.
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