Google Japan Turn Out Another Keyboard, and its a Dial

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News Source : Hackaday

News Summary

  • Google Japan has created a keyboard with a series of dials that work in the same way as the telephone dial of old.
  • The dials use 3D printed parts, and a rotary encoder to detect the key in question.
  • All the files to make the board, as well as a build guide, are in the GitHub repository linked above.
  • The company has also released a promotional video that we’ve put below the break.
  • We like this board for its quirkiness, and while it might become a little tedious to type a Hackaday piece on it, there might be some entertainment for old-timers in watching the youngsters figuring it out.
Theres a joke that does the rounds, about a teenager being given a dial phone and being unable to make head nor tail of it. Whether or not its true, were guessing that the same teen might be just [+902 chars]

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