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Parametric keycap design
Showcasing the Riskeyboard 70's features, riskable introduces the GEM profile created with his Keycap Playground tool.
Published September 2, 2021
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Of all the crazy features presented in this post I can't remember featuring the Keycap Playground, so here it is:
The Keycap Playground is a parametric OpenSCAD keycap generator made by riskable for creating keycaps of all shapes, profiles and sizes.
GitHub repo: https://github.com/riskable/keycap_playground
And here's a nice demo video introducing some options and parameters:
(More of riskable's cool stuff featured earlier: Riskeyboard70 PCB, IR receiver, Hall effect switches, etc.)
Published on Thu 2nd Sep 2021. Featured in KBD #42 (source).
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