Almost missed it there. It’s 12:27 now, and this hack just loaded. March 31st was almost a day without a hack.

Very cool hack. Saw this one somewhere – engadget or Wired magazine or something.

Posted at 12:29 am on Apr 1st, 2007 by HaX80r

That keyboard is A-Mazing.

Posted at 12:51 am on Apr 1st, 2007 by James

I’m planning on trying his electric PCB etch method. Also intriguing is that he managed to copper plate with copper sulphate (blue vitriol) using just a cotton bud. I don’t quite get the chemistry happening there, but I’d like to know more so I can replicate it…

Posted at 2:02 am on Apr 1st, 2007 by ex-parrot

That keyboard is awesome… I love steam punk stuff.

I’m mostly envious because I don’t have the patients to make things look pretty, most of my hacks are quite fugly, though functional.

Posted at 11:20 am on Apr 1st, 2007 by twistedsymphony

wow! awesome old school techniques.

10!

Posted at 1:45 pm on Apr 1st, 2007 by Mr Jones

That is honestly the nicest looking keyboard I’ve ever seen.

Hooking up a telegraph to a computer is a neat project too. It would be kinda cool to hook it up to your email so you could go real old school, and send+receive emails via telegraph

Posted at 3:07 pm on Apr 1st, 2007 by Madd_matt

Man, and I though I could work with metal, the workmanship on the telegraph souders is nothing short of perfect. forget nice reflective finishes, my work isn’t even squared up.

Posted at 10:52 pm on Apr 2nd, 2007 by Wolf

I cant wait until summer. As soon as I can get back into my buddys shop I am building myself one of those keyboards.

Posted at 5:42 pm on Apr 7th, 2007 by Ender

The keyboard is beautiful- a real functional work of art. ditto for the RSS telegraph sounder.

@4: from what I remember of my chemistry it’s a simple substitution reaction in solution-
CuSO4 + Fe -> Cu + FeSO4 (I simplify, but you get the idea). The cotton bud probably gets the solution down into the surface scratches on the iron so the coating is a little more durable, and there might be some more interesting stuff going on with the metals the iron is alloyed with- I’m assuming altoids tins are steel.

Posted at 8:41 am on Apr 10th, 2007 by PKM