Rebuild #9: Making your own keyboard

“I've always used an external keyboard because my very first job out of university — actually I was a student — the company gave me a chair with ergonomic arms, and the desk with a drawer that had the keyboard at the perfect height. But all these ergonomic things they gave me made my arms... gave me really bad RSI.”

Jesse Vincent discusses his six-month journey designing custom mechanical keyboards inspired by ergonomic research and 1980s Japanese keyboard designs.