Javelin's Key Layout Tool

From the ever-amazing Tharelia:

Today, Javelin gains a new feature -- You can use the Key Layout tool to change the active layer. This allows you to create a layer for your favourite apps or games, and without having a key bind, you can switch to it using the web tools UI. Grab a firmware build dated November 10 or later to use it.

Novel Writing Proceeds

Not much news to report in the open steno world lately, but I have been using my Jarne to write my novel via Javelin to my Android phone (using the iA Writer app), and it's been going remarkably well. So far I've written on the bus, on the subway, in a bookstore, in a park, in a library, at work during breaks, and, of course, at home, and I've managed to make my word count (1,667 words per day) every day so far. The Jarne is so lightweight and connects instantly to my phone, so there's very little excuse not to take it with me wherever I go, and setting it up takes a matter of seconds, so I can take advantage of even relatively short periods of free time. It's really changed the way I think about the process of writing while out and about in the world, and I'm incredibly grateful to have it.

Stenopad

I posted about the old Ploverdemo site a while back, but neglected to mention that Peter's Stenopad is much newer and slicker! Recommended for all steno-in-browser purposes sans nostalgia!

Jarne Blade!!!

Look at this incredible video from Tharelia of Javelin and Jarne fame! I literally gasped when I saw it! AMAZING!!

Novel Writing With Steno Next Month

I've written two 50,000-word novels in a month each using my steno machine, and I'm gonna try to do it again this November for the first time since 2015. A few other people on the Plover Discord are gonna be doing it as well. Care to join us? Ping me on the Plover Discord and hopefully we can get a mutually supportive writing group going!

Starboard Saxophone!!!

Check out this AMAZING video from Plover Discord member Lucy Goose, who wrote firmware for the Starboard that allows anyone to play music on it using saxophone fingerings. I love it SO MUCH! I don't play saxophone, but I do play electronic recorder (if you DM me on Discord, I'll link you to my secret electronic recorder music video channel, haha), and I would desperately love to be able to play music on one of my hobbyist steno machines using recorder fingerings! This is so freaking cool!!!

Ploverdemo: Blast from the Past

I saw something really cool on the Plover Discord that I want to post here, but the person who made it hasn't gotten back to me with permission yet (in fairness, they posted it in July and I just found out about it today), so hopefully I'll post that next week, but on another thread of the Discord, I was reminded of this cool little post from 2011 that links to the Ploverdemo, originally coded by John and still hosted by the Open Steno Project. It's a trim little thing without much in the way of bells and whistles, but I think it still has charm and a certain usefulness.

StenoJump!

A new steno learning game is in the works by Cheerio from the Plover Discord. Still early days, but it looks absolutely amazing!! I've wanted a retro pixel-style 2D steno learning game to exist since before the Steno Arcade days!! I'm so excited to play it and to see how it develops. Check out these fantastic screenshots!!

Harri's Autobriefer!

Harri's Autobriefer is a big new hit in the Plover Discord.

Harri says:

What it is:

Someone has a rule, like "`*D` can be used instead of `/KWREU`". You can choose to turn that rule on, then run the autobriefer

If you have `SEUL/KWREU` -> `silly` in your dictionary, you will now have `S*EULD` -> `silly` in autobriefed.json

To run it:

You stick the python file in the same folder as your other dictionaries, write each dictionary you want it to read, then select which rules you want to try out

Apply rules/briefs/rewrites to a set of dictionaries, and an Autobriefed.json is generated, that you stick at the bottom of your dictionary stack.

Maybe you want STKPW instead of S* but only when "z" is in the spelling

Maybe you want -FB instead of -F when "v" is in the spelling

Maybe you have just added a `^` key to your layout, and would like to use `^SK` instead of your `EBGS` stroke

Seriously cool idea! Check it out!

Using Open Steno Hardware and Software with NCRA Tests

The ever-amazing Jen has written up a fantastic guide to using Plover, Javelin, n-key rollover keyboards, and hobbyist machines when taking NCRA tests! My own NCRA testing years are far behind me, thank goodness, but if you've ever thought about dipping your toe into official certification, this guide is invaluable.

Typey Type Improvements

Typey Type just doesn't stop getting better, huh?

Di's latest Patreon update lays out all the fantastic improvements!

KAOES game improvements
The Typey Type KAOES game now has an option to play with Raw or QWERTY steno input. Thanks to trustyset for their feedback on the KAOES and suggesting QWERTY steno mode is added!

To use the raw steno option, you can use a dictionary to type raw steno. I created this raw steno dictionary that you can download from the Typey Type KAOES help modal or the GitHub steno dictionaries repository. When using the raw steno dictionary and raw steno mode, the KAOES game will clear the input whenever you type " *". Thanks go to another Typey Type student using the feedback form for pointing out the challenges of typing the star key when Plover treats star as undo!

For the folks that know their way around developer tools…

… you can also tweak your local data data to set a custom number of rounds to win the KAOES game. Set the typey-KAOES-rounds key in your local storage to a number between 1 and 10000 and refresh the page. This is only an experiment so far so you won't see the max rounds number update on the page, but if you've set a high number you'll have an effectively infinite KAOES game. Thanks again to the Typey Type student who suggested that through the feedback form!

No more stroke "overruns"
In the past, if you typed a word like "French" but accidentally hit the "-S" key, Typey Type would see the text "French", mark it correct, type "es", and mark the next word incorrect. Well, no more! Typey Type will now let all the text of "Frenches" appear without marking the word "French" correct until you fix the typo. This was a complex challenge to solve, and huge thanks go to na2hiro for writing the code to fix that!

Updated backup banner
The Progress page has also had a visual update. There used to be a couple of large panels explaining how and why to import and export your words progress. They were so large that some new starters didn't realise there was more to the page underneath. So the visual update has reduced the amount of space taken up for this. But some new starters also lose their progress by accident and get frustrated and abandon steno! So we made sure to keep the new banner prominent and to the point: Back up your progress regularly. Thanks again to na2hiro for sharing their feedback of their experience with the Progress page and for writing the code to update it!

Bookmarked lesson searches
The main Lessons page now shows your search text in the address bar. This lets me share a links like a search for all lessons with "fingerspelling" or "briefs" in the title e.g. https://didoesdigital.com/typey-type/lessons?q=fingerspelling

This also means if you search for a lesson, go to it, then hit the back button, your search will still be there.

Thanks again to na2hiro for writing the code for that! Behind the scenes, na2hiro has also been contributing lots of code to update how "state" is managed in Typey Type, which has made some subtle changes to how pages load and made Typey Type more resilient against errors (from flakey Internet connections). We've been making these changes so that Typey Type is easier to change and maintain, which I hope will make it more inviting for more developers to contribute. It certainly makes my life easier!

Yawei Chinese steno
There's now a Yawei Chinese steno layout option. Thanks to Devin for reaching out to me and collaborating to make that diagram and its behaviour possible!

If you use this layout, let me know! I'd love to hear feedback.

Dictionary improvements
Thanks to Monniasza for sharing feedback on the steno dictionaries repository! I've made a handful of dictionary updates to reduce misstrokes shown to people on Typey Type. It is a continuous activity!

Other updates
The KHAERT bot has more responses to questions about Plover now, thanks to student feedback. Feel free to suggest more!

Type Type now remembers your preference to "hide settings" when you come back to it.

The Italian Michela layout on the Writer page now fits better on small screens.

Updates some entries in the longest single-stroke briefs lesson since some previously single-stroke words were removed.

Updates links to Learn Plover since it moved.

Added a little detail about me to the About page for some curious folks.

Reduced some errors from Google translate

I don't always share smaller updates until I have a few to share together, but this may have been a bit overdue! I hope you like these improvements. As always, let me know what feedback you have!

Ploverizing a Mechanical Steno Machine!

Check out this amazing GitHub repo, detailing the process of turning an old non-electronic steno machine into one that's compatible with Plover! Extremely, extremely cool!!

Shrimple: A Python Dictionary for Orthospelling

Another in my series of cool Plover tricks that I don't (yet?) use personally, but that have become rather popular in the Open Steno Community. If traditional fingerspelling feels too slow, clunky, or laborious to you, you might want to try StenoHarri's Shrimple, a Python dictionary that allows you to fingerspell orthographically using chords. As helpful Plover Discord denizen Hellochap explains:

Basically it allows you to temporarily make your whole keyboard type literally, so like everything just goes to its corresponding letter. usually you have either a starter stroke to activate it, or you combine your first letter with a key like + or 🦐. and then to exit the mode you press S-P or punctuation or a Jeff’s phrase etc. Typically now we just notate whatever you use to enter shrimple with just the shrimp 🦐, regardless of if you use a shrimp key or not, just for funsies.

so in example: 🦐AB/RA/KRA/TKAB/RA/S-P -> abracadabra

And we also have other starter strokes for starting with a capital, or all caps etc.

Ingenious!

Open Steno Community Survey Results 2024

Sorry I'm rather late to the game with this one! I didn't notice that the survey results were posted back in June. But better late than never, eh?

Here are the results!

I also found this nice blog post highlighting a few of the responses. I'm so proud of the way the Open Steno community has grown and deepened over the years. It's beautiful to see.

Javelin Updates!

The amazing Tharelia (aka Jeffrey Lim, creator of Javelin and the Jarne) writes:

Hi all, there’s been a couple of scattered updates on Javelin, but here’s a summary of the key things that have changed since the last summary update in May.

Firmware
Added support for orthospelling, including an example configuration for Shrimple.
Added mouse controls; mouse button presses can be configured in the visual editor. (requires firmware dated August 3 or later)
Added layouts for Corne v3 and Kyria rev3 so they can use the visual editor under the Script web tool
Added templates, using commands =set_value and =transform
Added commands: :stitch, :stitch_last_word
Added detection of incomplete firmware dictionary uploads
Lots of performance improvements and fixes, including a JIT for the regex engine on the Jarne.

Firmware Builder
Added support for orthospelling dictionaries
The layout or script is now built into the firmware to allow easier modification later.
The download size of the base image when building a firmware has been reduced by 80%
Added new expert option to enable the firmware to send button press events.
This enables the key layout tool to show which keys are being pressed

Firmware Tools
Added Bootloader tool
Added Key Layout tool, to show the layout of the active layer.
Button presses will be shown if enabled when building the firmware.
Added Template Values tool
Lots of visual tweaks/spacing tidy ups across the tools
The Visual Editor has had a lot of upgrades to support the Jarne, including script options/templating.
Documentation for this is pending.

Steno Team on NitroType!

Steno practice is more fun with friends! Join the Steno Team on NitroType for some friendly competition!

Daniele Triumphs at Intersteno!

A guest post from the amazing Daniele Casarola, who just won second place in Audio Transcription - Seniors Division at Intersteno using Plover!! So incredibly impressive and cool!!!

The 54th Intersteno concluded on July 17, 2024, a biennial event held in Katowice, Poland.

The event lasts a week, during which speed writing professionals gather.

This year, the Congress and its seven international competitions saw the participation of over 400 people from countries across all five continents: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Czechia, China, Korea, Croatia, Denmark, France, the Philippines, Finland, Germany, Japan, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Romania, Slovakia, the United States, Turkey, and Hungary.

I attended my first Intersteno in 2017 in Berlin, then in 2019 in Cagliari, in 2022 in Maastricht, and finally this year in Katowice.

I have always used the stenographic keyboard and the Plover application with the plugin for the Italian method, from version 3.0 up to the latest 4 RC2.

2017 was also the year I started working as a stenographer, so my ranking in the competitions was decidedly low.

I was impressed by the speed and accuracy that the stenographers who reached the podium were able to achieve, especially the American stenographers, with whom the Italian stenographic method shares the same keyboard layout.

Even when replicating the same competition alone in the tranquility of my studio, I couldn't match the same results.

The nature in which Plover was developed allows for deep customization.

This allowed me to introduce accessibility tools and make the stenographic method more usable.

Furthermore, I was able to customize the dictionary not only in terms of abbreviations but also with additional orthographic rules, aiming to reduce the number of keystrokes as much as possible.

It was a long job, requiring a lot of patience, but with each new competition, I saw improvements.

Until July 17, 2024, when in the Audio Transcription test, I reached the second position on the podium, naturally below an American stenographer :)

Plover has always proven to be a reliable tool, performing its job without interruptions or crashes.

The experience of live competition is not like that of everyday work.

Being all gathered in a large room.

The silence, and tension accompanying the countdown.

The starting whistle and the frantic noise of fingers on the keys.

Hands starting to tremble with emotion and the vain attempt to control them.

These are moments where more than competing with others, you compete with yourself, putting into practice the training done, the new abbreviations, and trying to control your emotions.

A heartfelt thank you to the whole team that has worked on and contributed to the development of Plover, which has allowed me to reach this milestone.

Aerick Demonstrates Javelin

The ever-marvelous Aerick shows you how to embed steno on your hobbyist steno keyboard using the wonderful Javelin firmware!

The Jarne Store is Up and Running!

You can now buy a Jarne! Woohoo! Notice that prices are in Australian dollars.

Jeffrey Lim, aka Tharelia, inventor of the Jarne, says:

The order page for Jarne is now public! Prices are in AUD.

https://shop.chenonetta.com/product/jarne-the-ultimate-keyboard/

Boards are being made as orders come in, so please allow some time before your board ships.

Some notes on options:

- USD had to be disabled in the store for the options to be charged properly. If payment in AUD is an issue, get in touch with Alecat and a USD paypal invoice can be issued. No other currencies will be offered.

- Black keycaps are coming. ETA mid July

- Nocturnal switches are currently being investigated, but no ETA on that.

Asterisk First Impressions

I got just a few minutes to play with the Asterisk today, and it's definitely gonna require some practice to build the muscle memory necessary to use it, but I have to say the thing is absolutely adorable. I love that it fits in the little zipper pocket on my backup laptop's sleeve. I love how light and sleek and cheerful the design is. The cutouts are an ingenious way to tell your fingers whether you've hit the right key after the fact, but I do miss the ability to rest my fingers in the home position between strokes. Whether I'll be able to retrain my hands sufficiently to find that position while hovering in midair remains to be seen, but the experience of using it is enjoyable enough to give it a try, for sure. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna load Javelin onto it so that I can use it with either phone or computer, and I'm currently in the planning phases for a new novel that I'm planning to write for NaNoWriMo in November, so I'm thinking of trying to build up some proficiency with the Asterisk while working on notes for it. Definitely not something I anticipate using as a backup for any of my captioning machines (I'm happy to say that I was unable to use my daily driver Infinity Ergonomic yesterday and the Jarne worked marvelously well as a backup!), but as an ultralightweight and low profile machine to carry around for fun and brainstorming? It just might fit the bill! I'll keep you posted.

2024 Open Steno Community Survey is out!

Take the 2024 Open Steno Community Survey here!

Blue Asterisks!

Over on Kickstarter, the beautiful Asterisk keyboards are almost ready to ship, and surprise! They're not white -- they're blue! Which I'm really happy about, personally. I like blue way more than white! Can't wait to get mine and try it out!

Talking about Open Steno to Court Reporters

I'll be addressing a group of professional court reporters tomorrow, telling them about my career as a professional captioner and also about The Open Steno Project. I've found in the past that court reporters are often unimpressed when I try to explain about Open Steno. They don't see the point, or think the project is doomed to failure, or... Something! I've never quite been able to figure it out. I find the idea of making steno open source and unlocking it to a vast pool of amateurs and hobbyists thrilling and empowering, but in the past I've gotten the sense that those who don't find it futile find it threatening somehow. Anyone have any ideas on how I can break through their indifference or suspicion and make my case? Any suggestions welcome.

PyCon Jarne Demo Video

My friend and colleague Miss Steno just uploaded a fun video of the two of us playing with the Jarne on the roof deck of the convention center at PyCon last month!

The Open Steno FAQ is Really Good!

Maybe this is old news to y'all, but have you read the FAQ over at the Plover Wiki lately? Turns out it's really thorough and well written and full of useful links! You should totally check it out if you haven't already!

Plover at PyCon 2024

Last weekend I got to caption PyCon US 2024 in Pittsburgh alongside my fellow captioners working with White Coat Captioning, including the illustrious Vanessa, AKA Miss Steno, one of the very few professional captioners on the planet who owns nearly as many DIY/Hobbyist steno boards as I do! We got to nerd out about captioning and open steno, I got to show her my TinyMod, TinyMod Split, and Jarne, and we even recorded a What's In My Steno Bag video together! Stay tuned for that! I hadn't gotten the chance to caption PyCon since 2019, so it was all such a treat. I got to show off my big screen captioning using Plover writing into Vim and got some lovely comments from attendees, and I got to hang out with colleagues, which is a relatively infrequent occurrence in the life of an independent contractor like me. I had a blast.

Open Steno at the New York Tech Alliance

I had the pleasure of speaking about the Open Steno Project at the New York Tech Alliance Meetup this week! I might post video when it becomes available, but in the mean time, here are a few photos of the event. I had both my Jarne and my Infinity Ergonomic connected to my laptop, with the cursor in the Streamtext Connector window, which was outputting to Streamcast on the big screen in the room and also to Zoom for the one remote tech demo of the evening. I was able to caption myself with the Jarne while speaking at the podium, and then I used my Infinity Ergonomic to caption the other speakers. It all worked pretty seamlessly, and I had a great time! Thanks to Doug and Xian of the New York Tech Alliance for the invitation!

Typey Type Updates

The marvelous Di writes:

New on Typey Type!

There's a new "Qwerty steno" mode for beginners to learn the steno layout in the KAOES game before they have a stenoboard or steno engine. Thanks to trustyset for feedback on this idea.

A new exponent numbers dictionary.

Lesson: The Chaos

New Voice settings to speak words with sound

Completed lessons with accuracy less than 90% now nudge you to repeat the lesson. Thanks to Paul Fioravanti and Kaoffie for suggesting ideas along these lines.

Updated Announcer for screen readers and bug fixes

New focus styles so you know where you are when using a keyboard

Version 3 of Plover2CAT is Out!

A little late to the game on this one, but Plover2CAT version 3 has been released.

You can download Plover2CAT here!

Jarne Review for Walkaround Captioning

Many years ago, I demonstrated walkaround captioning in an art museum, with my Infinity Ergonomic resting on a Connect-a-Desk (a shoulder-mounted harness usually intended for laptops) captioning via Bluetooth to a Windows tablet running Eclipse, the proprietary steno software I was using at the time. It was rather heavy and awkward, and I didn't make a habit of offering walkaround captioning as a service after that, because it all felt rather impractical.

Today, though, I was transcribing for a client who was taking a walking tour of a facility and who didn't want to read captions in real time, but who wanted a transcript of the event after the fact. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to try out my new Jarne in the field. I dug out my old Connect-a-Desk, taped my Jarne and my phone to it, and spent the next two hours typing over 200,000 strokes at speeds up to 270 WPM (according to the Jarne's handy speedometer). For much of it I was seated, but for a significant amount of the time I was walking around, and I have to say the difference between this experience and my earlier attempts at walkaround steno was striking. The Jarne is vastly lighter, with a much lower profile. I was able to write to my phone via Bluetooth smoothly and ergonomically, since the keys are extremely light and shallow. Unlike the previous attempt, my shoulders weren't screaming at the end of the two-hour session, which seemed like a miracle. I'm very impressed and encouraged by this experience. It feels like a new mode of captioning has opened up to me.

Wireless Jarne Prototype!

I'm a bit behind on device reviews -- I still owe Charley a review of the marvelous TinyMod Split he sent me a while back! But yesterday I got a prototype of a new wireless Jarne from Jeffrey Lim, the multitalented inventor of Javelin. This thing really packs a wallop! It's got embedded steno, tenting, Bluetooth, a steno/qwerty toggle switch, pretty multicolored lights, an embedded WPM gauge, onboard dictionary entry, a camera tripod mount, custom key mapping, you name it! I'm using it to write this blog post, and while the extra row of keys takes a little getting used to (I keep accidentally tapping the keys on the bottom row, which don't map to anything in steno mode), the touch is delightfully light and shallow, just the way I like it, and the firmware flashing process was pretty smooth, even for an inexperienced user such as myself. This lovely little device will definitely be going in my steno bag! Jeffrey asked me to emphasize that this model is still just a prototype, but I have to say that so far I'm very impressed.

Another Controller Steno Diagram

Back in September of 2022, I posted an infographic on how one member of the Plover Discord wrote in steno using an Xbox controller. I asked the Discord today what I should blog about, and someone suggested that I post this new diagram of controller steno, with the assertion that at least six people have now tried to learn it! I have to admit the idea still breaks my brain a little, just as it did two years ago, but clearly the idea has something to it!

A Hobbyist 's Guide to Stenography

A wonderful intro to steno by the ever-magnificent Aerick!

Open Steno in the New York Times!

The Long Case for Machine Shorthand appeared in The New York Times this week, and on the whole I have to say I was really happy with it! It mentioned steno as a fandom, talked about our 7,000 Discord members, and gave just a tiny hint of how fun steno can be. The author of the article interviewed two other stenographers as well, so there wasn't space for everything I put into our hourlong conversation (like the fact that if you add all the releases together, Plover has been downloaded 127,417 times!!), but I think it got a lot of the most relevant details. I hope it intrigues some readers into checking us out and joining our delightful little community!

Even More Javelin Updates!

Tharelia writes:

In the last week, Javelin has gained a number of features: Lookup, Paper Tape and Add Translation tools have had improvements to be more aware of what dictionaries and definitions are used and Paper Tape tool has a number of options that control the display. emily-symbols can also be reverse looked up now too. Grab a firmware dated March 17 or later for all of these!

Stenoknight's Steno Stash

Preparatory to my presentation at the kid's class on Friday, I decided to try to dig up all the steno machines I had in my possession. I know this picture is missing at least three, because I don't want to risk waking the kid up extracting their Javelined Uni from the bedroom, and my trusty wooden-backed StenoMod bag is AWOL, which is unsettling, since it tends to be my go-to backup machine. I also couldn't find the pieces of my late lamented Georgi. There might be still others tucked away in the messy recesses of my home office. But I'm pretty happy with this array nonetheless! Not sure I'll take all of them to the classroom, but it was fun going back down memory lane while excavating these beauties. How far machine steno has come in a little over 100 years! I can't wait to see what the future brings.

Steno Presentation to Second Graders

My kid's second grade class is reading the excellent graphic memoir El Deafo, about the experiences of a kid who lost much of her hearing at age 4 (i.e., postlingually) from meningitis. Since people of that general description make up a large part of my captioning clientele, I'm going to talk to the kids about hearing loss, realtime captioning, the ADA, and accessibility work in general, but I'd also like to give them a rundown of steno and how it works. I'll be bringing in my professional machine and a number of hobbyist machines for them to play with, I'll give a live demo, and I'll also probably print out some steno keyboard diagrams for each of them to take home. Can anyone think of anything else that might be fun to do with a bunch of 7 and 8-year-olds during an hourlong presentation? Suggestions extremely welcome!

Typey Type Finger Drill Game

There's a new game on Typey Type to help drill your fingers!

Talking to a Georgi with C [Steno Coding]

Paul says:

This is my attempt at creating a basic HID host program using C to talk to a Georgi stenographic keyboard.The coding parts were done with Plover stenography and UltiSnips vim snippets.

Aerick's Video on Lapwing Theory

I don't know Lapwing theory, and at this point (almost 20 years into steno with Plover theory, a semi-homebrewed but ultimately very standard, middle-of-the-road steno theory) I think it's unlikely that I'll be learning it myself, but I think Aerick makes some compelling points in its favor in this video, and I'd say if you're interested in new and potentially improved theories, it might be worth a watch!

Creating Plover Plugins with Python

Check out this fantastic post by Paul on creating Plover Plugins with Python!! So cool!!!

Steno in the Spotlight

I confess I haven't yet gotten a chance to watch it, but this video has been blowing up the steno community online for the past day and change, so I thought it would make sense to post it here. Apparently it doesn't mention Open Steno per se, but the comments have already led a bunch of viewers to our Discord, so that's something!

Javelin Provides Prefix Suggestions!

Wow, it's been a while since I've built Javelin firmware on one of my machines, but I really should. It's been improving steadily! From Tharelia on the Discord:

Javelin has gained the ability to provide prefix suggestions -- if you use a delete space command after a word, Javelin will show any suggestions for a prefix if it exists. Build a new full firmware to get this update. Screenshot of it in action:

Fix for Missing Plugin Manager Bug

As explained in this GitHub issue, if you're having trouble accessing the Plover plugin manager, a quick uninstall/reinstall should fix the problem.

Beautiful Machines

A quick one tonight, since I just got back from taking my kid to a Broadway show for the first time and it's pretty late, but check out this lovely tableau of hobbyist machines posted by Plover Discord member TKAOEUS (aka Dice) in the Hardware Showcase channel. What a fantastic collection! Can anyone name them all?

Kickstarter for the $50 Asterisk Keyboard!

The Kickstarter for the new $50 Asterisk Steno Keyboard was funded in one day (and I'm pretty sure I was the first backer!), but there's still almost a month to pledge and get one of your own. It looks fantastic!!