Misc DIY Keyboards
By Xah Lee. Date: 2013-01-21 . Last updated: 2021-05-22 .
dated around
2016-06-01.
not sure where these came from. Found on Japanese forum.
Yager Keyboard
Yager keyboard 2014-03.
Key count: 66 keys.
http://yager.io/keyboard/keyboard.html
Jesse Heart Keyboard
Mark5 heart keyboard Jesse Vincent 2013-04-19 .
Key count: 54 keys.
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this is precursor to Keyboardio
Jesse Butterfly Keyboard
this is precursor to Keyboardio
Butterfly keyboard by Jesse Vincent.
Key count: 60 keys.
〔image source flickr © ❮https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode❯〕
The design gets better and better. The butterfly keyboard has great thumb keys, but has a novel innovation: palm key! You just push down your palm to activate it.
Jesse Vincent is a famous perl programer. See Wikipedia: Jesse Vincent . Jesse has a blog at http://blog.fsck.com/
Jesse plans to manufacture them. For news, see: http://launch.keyboard.io/
Mark4 keyboard
this is precursor to Keyboardio
Mark4 keyboard 2013-04-19 .
Key count: 58 keys.
Photo by Jesse Vincent.
〔image source flickr © ❮https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode❯〕
Space Station Keyboard
The keyboard from space.
Key count: 85 keys.
From a Chinese keyboard forum.
http://www.likeyboard.com/forum.php?mod=forumdisplay&fid=172
Let's call this the Space Station keyboard.
Nicolas Tavlas Keyboard
Star Trek keyboard?
the image is dated around 2012.
from http://www.techpin.com/the-ergo-keyboard-from-nicolas-tavlas/
Hard to find info about this keyboard. Not sure if it's just a computer rendered design.
