Post by Foone / Redsky

that must have been satisfying to setup!

sep 15, 2025, 9:15 pm • 1 0 • view

I'm very disappoint that this video has no sound

sep 15, 2025, 9:27 pm • 1 0 • view

Possibly the worst thing I've ever made (so far), the Hair Keyboard.

sep 15, 2025, 9:15 pm • 115 16 • view

I am both horrified and enamored at the fact this exists

sep 15, 2025, 9:19 pm • 3 0 • view

this is just what it's like to have animals and/or long hair

sep 15, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view

god bless and godspeed

sep 15, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view

bad! no!

sep 16, 2025, 7:14 am • 0 0 • view

What if you made certain hairs a certain texture for the f and j keys?

sep 20, 2025, 5:02 am • 0 0 • view

Some closeups of the Hair Keyboard, because Fuck You.

a keyboard covered in faux-fur. it's been combed flat

a keyboard covered in faux-fur. it's all poking up, like bad bed hair

sep 15, 2025, 9:16 pm • 80 9 • view

finally, someone made a troll keyboard

sep 15, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view

all my keyboards are troll keyboards

sep 15, 2025, 9:44 pm • 2 0 • view

I somehow expected more hair

sep 15, 2025, 9:51 pm • 1 0 • view

It looks like it smells like the interior of an old Ford Bronco

sep 15, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view

he's beautiful... he needs to be in a yaoified dating sim

sep 15, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view

here's the Alligator Keyboard. one of the first ones, it's based on an educational V-tech alligator toy.

sep 15, 2025, 9:18 pm • 43 1 • view

Here's a photo of the Alligator toy, since you can't see it well in that video

A green alligator toy (with keys on its back), sitting on a desk.

sep 15, 2025, 9:19 pm • 39 1 • view

My Binary Keyboard! You just set the 7 switches to the ASCII character you want to type. Simple!

sep 15, 2025, 9:21 pm • 95 15 • view

(this is where i post from)

sep 15, 2025, 9:32 pm • 0 0 • view

How many switches would you need to make one that does unicode?

sep 15, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view

8

sep 15, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view

doing unicode in a keyboard is a whole Thing, it's not really supported directly. I've avoided it thus far because of how much of a hack it is.

sep 15, 2025, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view

Fair. can you make one for EBCDIC?

sep 15, 2025, 10:23 pm • 1 0 • view

there's a limit for how cursed I'm willing to get

sep 15, 2025, 10:28 pm • 2 0 • view

Guess who started their career doing ETL work pulling data from System/360 machines so they could be retired? Memorably once a deadline was literally "they're going to implode this building on X date with the machine still in it" Of course that one used an odd version of EBCDIC.

sep 15, 2025, 10:37 pm • 3 0 • view

Are those switches something one can pickup on Digikey, Mouser, etc...or are they some actual old 60s/70s era DEC stuff? I'd love to get my hands on some if they're readily available.

sep 15, 2025, 9:25 pm • 0 0 • view

I got them at a local electronics surplus store, now closed. Sorry!

sep 15, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view

The two-button binary keyboard. The two keys are 0 and 1, and every 7 presses you get a character.

sep 15, 2025, 9:22 pm • 52 5 • view

The one-button unary keyboard. You press the one button enough times to make up the letters you want to type. So "H" is 72 presses.

sep 15, 2025, 9:24 pm • 54 2 • view

I think there’s a lack of imagination there. Make it morse code like - not actual morse code as learning that will be useful when you end up in jail with only a pipe to bang to communicate with anyone.

sep 15, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view

This keyboard is built on the Leap Frog LeapBuilders system, which is a series of educational blocks with letters on them, plus a base station that can detect which block you put in. I converted it to a keyboard, with some minor modifications to give it a space and backspace.