#bad keyboards

[foone]

Behold my latest keyboard, the JuggleKeyboard!

Just click the letters as they're juggled, it's an easy* way to type. * it's not easy

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A split screen video. The top shows bluesky, and "Hello World" is slowly typed and posted. The bottom shows a screenshot of 3D rendered jugglers, who are juggling letters. A mouse cursor goes around and slowly clicks out Hello World as the letters are juggled around

[foone]

I'm prototyping a new keyboard

[foone]

My latest Bad Keyboard: The MCKeyb!

I built a keyboard in modded Minecraft, then hooked it up through a webserver and a wireless microcontroller, so it appears as a USB keyboard on a different computer. I then used it to post "Hello World!" to bluesky, from minecraft.

[foone]

Here's my idea for a latin declining/conjugating keyboard

[foone]

Behold! My latest Bad Keyboard, the ShiftKeyBoard!

It's got nine buttons, and an 8-way gear shifter. You simply shift into different gears to select which sub-keyboard to use. Surprisingly easy to use, in fact.

Here's the layout I used:

Two more things:

1. the numbers under each gear position image are an implementation detail for the gearshifter I used, which I had on my guide image to help me code it.

2. the funniest thing I discovered is that you have to shift into neutral before reprogramming the keyboard or it wouldn't work right. I kept leaving it in first gear which caused problems, where it would only recognize 1 and 4th gear.

[foone]

I haven't shown off this keyboard yet but I took a Pic for mastodon so I guess I should show y'all.

[foone]

Wait if I can find the code for my poetry keyboard I could use it to build a forcefem keyboard that switches the pronouns you type to only be she/her

[foone]

I summarized all my bad keyboards (or at least the ones I could easily find) over on my bluesky:

Foone (@foone.bsky.social)

Bad Keyboards Thread: So I like to make intentionally bad keyboards, in part because of my unfulfilled blood feud with mechanical keyboard