Foone Turing, better known as Foone on Twitter, thinks keyboards are too normal. If keyboards had difficulty sliders, Foone wants to max them out to nightmare. That's why they made a physics-designed keyboard where the keys have been sprinkled onto a PCB and a tweet takes six minutes to write.
You know that person that pecks at their keyboard instead of resting their hands at it like most people do? Imagine intentionally recreating that experience and then imagine proudly sharing it with the world.
I asked Foone what their deal is with keyboards.
«So I have a hobby of making terrible keyboards, this is just the latest one in that series,» they said. It turns out, Foone has gotten away with this many times before, which maybe is unsurprising since they're also the person that put Doom on a pregnancy test. They've made everything from a keyboard that has to be toggled with binary, to one that requires floppy disks inserted for every letter, and one that is GPS-based—for some reason.
Foone detailed the entire process of making the physics-designed keyboard in a lengthy Twitter thread. It started with a program that jumbled the keys up. Then, they had to make a PCB that would support keys in various rotations and find even-shaped keycaps. It took a few tries to get it right because Foone kept finding certain symbols weren't available in the drivers they wrote and that the PCB warped over time. Despite the issues, Foone was able to record a six minute video where they type on it.
«I'm trying to type function+6 [in the video], but I type function+9 instead, because guess what? The 9 is upside down from where I'm sitting,» they wrote.
Foone told me that, despite what you may think after seeing this monstrosity, they are a
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