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~/komar
Personal blog · blog.komar.behardwareprogramming
~/komar is a personal blog at blog.komar.be about hardware and programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a teardown of the Wang 724 keyboard, which one commenter calls their all-time favourite. The other comment discusses keyboards generally and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I like mechanical keyboard. The past few months, I build a GH60[1] open source mechanical keyboard. And the ErgoDox[2] also an amazing open source ergo mechanical keyboard. Now, I plan create my own keyboard, some features i want: 1. Bluetooth supported (BLE) 2. Integrating Gestures Sensor. It supports left, right, up, down, wave, etc. It means I can control my app without mouse. 3. Ergo, same as ErgoDox 4. The main…
Comment linking /projects/gh60-programmable-keyboard/
on “Atreus – kit to build your own mechanical keyboard”Submitted How to Make a Keyboard: The Matrix (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy all time favorite was the Wang 724 keyboard. http://blog.komar.be/wang-724-teardown/ Since then, it does not really matter which keyboard I use. Now I have a reddragon keyboard (Redragon K552 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, 87-Key Compact). I picked that up a while ago because it does not use much space on the table/desk I have.
Comment linking /wang-724-teardown/
on “Typing and Keyboards”