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Parametric keycap design

Showcasing the Riskeyboard 70's features, riskable introduces the GEM profile created with his Keycap Playground tool.

KBD.news
Published September 2, 2021

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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