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I'm surprised that there haven't been more keyboard projects on KickStarter, which has been a boon for hardware projects.

A modern version of the DataHand would be cool.

http://octopup.org/computer/datahand

A controller like an AlphaGrip: http://www.alphagrips.com/

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Funny you should ask - there's a kickstarter launching tomorrow for a pretty legit keyboard project: http://www.keyboard.io

Looking forward to this. Do you have any videos contrasting Keyboardio vs. the tradition keyboard, or do I need to wait until the campaign goes live tomorrow?

No I haven't seen videos. Honestly I'm just impressed by the level of iteration from prototype to prototype that Jesse has blogged about extensively for some time, leading up to http://blog.fsck.com/2013/12/model-00.html .

There have been some attempts to re-create the datahand [1], but it seems that they have stalled.

[1] https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41422.0

I created my own keyboard design (http://atreus.technomancy.us) and have had a number of people ask me why I haven't put it on Kickstarter.

Ironically it's because the startup costs are so low, and gradually ramping up production makes a lot more sense to me than exploding onto with a huge bang that requires a lot of investment without knowing how the demand will hold up in the long-term.

The TextBlade (https://waytools.com/) looks like a thoughtful redesign of the keyboard. Compact, efficient, and shipping very soon.

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