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I'm a computer programmer with a soldering iron: The most dangerous beast.
Terrible Keyboards
I like to take apart kid's toys which have keyboards on them and turn them into Real USB Keyboards.
Successfully Keyboardized
- Children Intelligent Learning Machine
- Fisher-Price Linkimals A to Z Otter
- LeapFrog My Own Leaptop
- LeapFrog LeapBuilders Construction Blocks
- Oregon Scientific Barbie Laptop, and follow up thread
- VTech Alphabert and Sprocket
- VTech Pull & Learn Alligator. See also videos in the follow up thread
- VTech Princess Fantasy Notebook. Videos in the followup thread
- VTech Thomas & Friends Learn & Explore Laptop Teardown. See also the videos in the follow up thread.
Not Yet Keyboardized
- CIDE toys Kidz Delight
- LeapFrog Alphabet Pal
- LeapFrog AlphaPup
- LeapFrog ClickStart My First Computer
- Radio Shack Computer Typing Instructor
- VTech Alphabet Town
- VTech Little Apps Tablet. See also thread 2, with the second keyboard
- VTech Nitro Web notebook™
- VTech Super Color Whiz
- Vtech Tote & Go Laptop Web
Built From Mostly Scratch Bad Keyboards
- Binary Keyboard (7-switch)
- Binary Keyboard (2 button)
- Unary Keyboard (1 button)
- The Furboard
- Rotary Phone Numpad
- Rotary Phone SMS Dialing
- Analog Dial Keyboard
- Random ASCII Keyboard
- The FlopKey Floppy-Disk Keyboard
- Clock Keyboard
- Teeth Keyboard
- Randomized layout designed-by-physics Keyboard
Bad Keyboard Layouts
- Vertical QWERTY
- 4-Line QWERTY
- Left-handed QWERTY
- Flipped QWERTY
- Real DVORAK
- Real COLEMAK
- Linotype
- Michael Crichton's Sphere keyboard