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Radio interference regulations and keyboards
As Pylon points out, your custom keyboard is probably illegal. A post on radio interference testing regulations.
Published December 12, 2021
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A quick summary:
- Digital devices such as keyboards can generate unintended radio interference.
- Government agencies regulate the airwaves, and generally require consumer electronics products to be tested.
- These tests require very expensive calibrated equipment.
- Most custom keyboards out there do not perform these tests, and are potentially illegal.
This has been something I’ve been looking into over the course of designing my 120% keyboard, and something that I’m generally pretty concerned about for the keyboard community. I’ve brought this up in various Discord servers at various times, but would like to write a longform post about this – Pylon.
Read the whole post here:
Published on Sun 12th Dec 2021. Featured in KBD #56 (source).
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