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Discipline, a 65% DIY keyboard kit by Coseyfannitutti that can be assembled using only through-hole components.

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  DISCIPLINE 65% DIY Keyboard Kit — CFTKB RESTOCK COMING SOON SOLDERING REQUIRED 65% DIY keyboard kit that can be assembled using only through hole components Includes: PCB and bottom plate ATmega32A microcontroller pre-flashed with bootloader and default QMK firmware keymap All necessary components for a fully functiona

“Tartan # Through Hole” is a 60% keyboard made by through hole components only, designed by hsgw, the designer of the Plaid.

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  Tartan # Through Hole - 5z6p Instruments "Plaid // Through Hole" is a 12x4 ortholinear keyboard made by through hole components only.

Medium is (for the moment) a publishing platform that pays writers from paying subcribers. I'm attracted to the idea of being a micro-patron of the arts. But Medium insists on tracking me via either my Google or Facebook account, which makes me hesitate.

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  Upgrade and become a member of Medium Together, we’re building a different kind of place on the internet: one designed for you, not for advertisers.

Here’s a fun demonstration of the relative sizes of a succession of things you might find in space, starting with an astronaut.

(Via CSS-Tricks on Twitter)

• https://neal.fun/size-of-space/

Photographs of the insides of musical instruments.

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  Dreamy Cave-Like Photos Taken Inside Musical Instruments For a 2012 print campaign for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, photographers Andreas Mierswa and Markus Kluska photographed the

Tutorial on making your own keyboard PCB.

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  ruiqimao/keyboard-pcb-guide Guide on how to design keyboard PCBs with KiCad. Contribute to ruiqimao/keyboard-pcb-guide development by creating an account on GitHub.

The lost art of paste-up: Bryony Dalefield of the London Review of Books demonstrates the meticulous manual process from the days when it involved literal cutting and pasting with cow gum. I remember my father doing the same when I was small.

(Via Joanna Penn on Twitter)

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  http://www.openculture.com/2019/10/how-magazine-pages-were-created-before-computers.html

December 2017’s issue of the Font of the Month club is a stylish uncial-inspired typeface called Klooster.

• Klooster: December’s Font of the Month Klooster: December’s Font of the Month

Tampopo (1985) is a Japanese film about a ramen shop that was something of a cult movie amongst my friends in our student days. Here‘s an early scene were a young Ken Watanabe gets taught the correct way to eat ramen.

(Via Roy Kenagy on Twitter)

• http://www.openculture.com/2019/09/the-proper-way-to-eat-ramen-tampopo.html