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Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard

https://github.com/notaroomba/keybytes
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A while back I was frustrated when wanting to buy a keyboard that there were no triangle-shaped keyboards or circle-shaped keyboards. This lack of peculiar keyboard shapes gave me the idea to make a keyboard that could be reconfigurable into any shape my heart desired. I’m still working on the firmware and making more keys but I wanted to share my progress so far. Heres the source if anyone’s interested in how I made it: https://github.com/notaroomba/keybytes
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This is awesome!

How does the rigidity of the keyboard hold up with many keys and what's the cost of the materials at higher order quantity?

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This is very cool.

It needs spacers / extensions so it can be laid out as desired.

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I’ve wondered when someone would do this (which gets rid of the annoyances of scanning).

The real breakthrough would be reprogrammable key legends in something like e-ink.

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this is extremely cool. would love to see full board
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