Building Your Own Extra-Large Keyboard

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Building Your Own Extra-Large Keyboard

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @10:40PM from the completely-necessary dept.

Ant writes "ModAsylum.com has an article on how to make your own extra-large homemade keyboard." Or, if you're handy with tweezers, extra-small.

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yea by Vancomycin · 2004-07-20 22:42 · Score: 4, Funny

a one-hand keyboard maybe more immediately useful for many :-p
1. Re:yea by pandrijeczko · 2004-07-20 23:24 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Mind you, I'll say one thing for the Big Keyboard - it looks like it has a "wipe clean" surface for those "errant splashes"...
  ...from nearby knocked coffee cups, of course.
  PS. Ever noticed the prevalence of British "Fnarr Fnarr" humour on here until the Americans start coming on line at our lunchtime?
  
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2. Re:yea by Dogtanian · 2004-07-21 01:15 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Ever noticed the prevalence of British "Fnarr Fnarr" humour on here until the Americans start coming on line at our lunchtime?
  
  Heh heh.... he said "coming".
  
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Honey, I Screwed With the Keyboard! by Zorilla · 2004-07-20 22:45 · Score: 3, Funny

Looks like they wasted a whole bunch of effort for nothing. Did they even bother to call up Rick Moranis before trying to make a keyboard big?

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Slashdotted by elgatozorbas · 2004-07-20 22:48 · Score: 3, Funny

They had better built an extra-big server.
1. Re:Slashdotted by ikea5 · 2004-07-20 22:50 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  with that extra-large keyboard, at least they can soft reboot the mechine rather easily.
Site doesn't work by carcosa30 · 2004-07-20 23:13 · Score: 3, Funny

Why is it that sites linked from slashdot almost never work?

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Is it just me... by deutschemonte · 2004-07-20 23:13 · Score: 3, Funny

...or does this keyboard kind of suck?

I mean, I was thinking of a big QWERTY style keyboard.

This one just looks like it is designed for very old/young/simple people. The letters are all in alphabetical order and it is decorated with primary colors that harken me back to the McDonald's Play Areas of yore.

If you really want to impress me, make a keyboard out of the spare parts from several Dance Dance Revolution dance pads.

A giant keyboard you have to step on to get to work, now that would be cool, not practical, but cool none the less.

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For a small fee... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-20 23:16 · Score: 4, Funny

We'll ship you your own keyboard enlargment pills! No mod nescessary. Minimum 3" guaranteed!!
Re:Interesting note. by Hognoxious · 2004-07-20 23:18 · Score: 3, Funny

Even the best keyboards are at about 85% of the size of optimum
Are you sure your hands aren't 17.6% too large?

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Pointless... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-20 23:24 · Score: 3, Funny

You'd never find a screen huge enough where those those big letters would fit on :-]