Building the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard (Changelog Interviews #186)

László Monda (aka Lotsy) joined the show to talk about a keyboard for hackers — the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. We discussed the features, the hardware design, the open source that powers it, and more.

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Featuring:

• László Monda – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Ultimate Hacking Keyboard org on GitHub
• UltimateHackingKeyboard/agent
• UltimateHackingKeyboard/firmware
• UltimateHackingKeyboard/ugl-kicad-libs
• UltimateHackingKeyboard/bootloader-left
• UltimateHackingKeyboard/bootloader-right
• From the Ground Up: How I Built the Developer’s Dream Keyboard
• Ultimate Hacking Keyboard’s campaign on Crowd Supply
• Ultimate Hacking Keyboard - Image Gallery
• KiCad EDA
• Hero: John Carmack
• Hero: Coding Horror (Jeff Atwood)
• Hero: Dean Camera (@abcminiuser) on Twitter
• Hero: Dean Camera’s “Four Walled Cubicle”

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!