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Very cool! I love that it's so accessible to do this kind of thing these days, and the addition of a 3D-printed custom case is awesome. I do think there's a tin
by unwind 3y ago
Very cool! I love that it's so accessible to do this kind of thing these days, and the addition of a 3D-printed custom case is awesome. I do think there's a tiny bit of humble brag with the author's skill level, but that worked well in this case.
It also reminded me of another piece of evidence for the difficulty in computing to name things:
Keyboard have had the keys F1, F2, and so on since at least the 80s. They are called "function keys", and modern PCs have 12 of them.
Then some time during the 90s (I guess?) laptop manufacturers decided they needed to squeeze more functionality into ordinary letter keys, and invented the a new key to enable the alternate functions. Obviously, then, they had to name that key "Fn", for "function".
On my work Dell machine I can press "function function 1" to mute or unmute the audio, for instance. Fantastic.
- dcminter 3y ago> humble brag Heh. Not intentionally. All the hard work is the QMK project and nothing to do with me. TinkerCAD is literally designed for kids and completely the wrong tool for the job. I'm pleased (and faintly surprised) with how well it turned out, though, so perhaps a little bragging there. Good point about the "fn" versus "F" key naming overload!
- hakfoo 3y agoThe Fn key existed at least as early as the PCjr, where you'd use Fn-1 to Fn-0 instead of dedicated function keys. This was also seen on some smaller laptops without room for dedicated function keys. (Other designs used Fn-F1 and Fn-F2 to add F11 and F12 when there wasn't room)