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Electronic Materials Office
Company blog · electronicmaterialsoffice.comhardwaredesign
Electronic Materials Office is the company blog at electronicmaterialsoffice.com, writing about hardware and design. Since 2022, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this site as an example of a low-profile, minimal mechanical keyboard designed over a year, with layout images and CGI renders of the hardware. Commenters mostly point to it as a related project.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Shockingly thin, fully mechanical. Altar II combines a superlative typing experience with an unbelievable design.
Most-linked posts?
- I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-08-18
- Show HN: Altar I, the minimal keyboard launched on HN, is open for pre-orders2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-06
- /img/layouts.jpg2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-18
What Hacker News says?
Replying to myself, someone else said look at https://electronicmaterialsoffice.com/img/layouts.jpg in a browser window and deleted their comment (?) Anyhow, just realized: no page down, page up, home or end keys? What? No.
Comment linking /img/layouts.jpg
on “I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard”Submitted I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard as a story · 1131 points
HN discussionYes, I had the same problem with the moving images; this is static: https://electronicmaterialsoffice.com/img/layouts.jpg (but not hi-def).
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on “I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard”Submitted Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI really like the aesthetic, both of the product and your website. One point of feedback, since you ask: the website makes it really hard to get a sense of the material. You describe it uses recycled machined aluminium for the body and some polymer, but it's really hard to get a sense of the actual hardware from the CGI renders. One thing that especially jumped out at me was that in the videos, such as this one: htt…
Comment linking /video/Turntable_mobile_v1.0.mp4
on “I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard”Submitted Show HN: Altar I, the minimal keyboard launched on HN, is open for pre-orders as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> niche of Mac keyboard users Is it a niche though? Logitech, cheap BT keyboards etc mostly stick to this layout. And it's not just the left side that is the issue - they move fn to the right in place of the alt key. Can't cmd-alt-i with 1 hand anymore! The only other keyboards I've seen with this mac-like layout are - - https://nuphy.com/collections/keyboards/products/nutype-f1?v... which looks slick but I much pre…
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on “Guide to mechanical keyboards”Submitted Pre-Order Altar I – Electronic Materials Office as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA couple of other similar low profile keyboard projects some may be interested in: https://monokei.co/systems https://electronicmaterialsoffice.com/
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on “A mechanical keyboard with programmable knobs and full color screen panel”Submitted Altar I March 2023 progress report as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou might dig these folks https://electronicmaterialsoffice.com/
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on “TP-7”Submitted Altar I (mechanical keyboard) May 2023 progress report as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWell, the Altar keyboard has that TE vibe, I don't know if you've seen it. https://electronicmaterialsoffice.com/ Its also similar in how expensive it is :D
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on “Teenage Engineering OP–XY”Submitted Altar I December 2022 progress report as a story · 1 points
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