Scrabble keyboard is triple-letter word score awesome!
“Doc” (nice name, by the way) , over at Datamancer took on a custom Mac Keyboard request from some of his Scrabble-loving friends, and the results are pretty darn cool. Comprised almost entirely of genuine, hand beveled Scrabble tiles, the Scrabble Keyboard is a wonderful blend of art, engineering, and nerddom.
“Most of the keys are made from real Scrabble tiles that were all hand-beveled (truly an exercise in patience/masochism!) and built onto a USB, clicky, mechanical-switch keyboard. This keyboard was going into a Mac environment so I decided to use brushed aluminum for the casing and round all of the corners to keep with the sleek, simple Macintosh styling. Near the end of the build, I decided that the keyboard looked a little too minimalist so I added some silver hardware and a seam to put a slightly industrialized twist on the design. “
As if that wasn’t cool enough (and it IS), The Num, Caps, and Scroll Lock keys all have LEDs which shine through tiles with the lettering cut out.
[Via datamancer.net via Cult of Mac]
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8 Comments on Scrabble keyboard is triple-letter word score awesome!
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Florian Vanthuyne on
Mon, 19th Jan 2009 12:33 pm
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ookami on
Mon, 19th Jan 2009 1:18 pm
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Mon, 19th Jan 2009 1:45 pm
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Mon, 19th Jan 2009 6:29 pm
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Captain Killjoy on
Mon, 19th Jan 2009 7:02 pm
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Dr. Macenstein on
Mon, 19th Jan 2009 9:10 pm
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Xero on
Tue, 20th Jan 2009 1:22 am
OMG, I’ve got to get me one of these! **searches for the closest wood/metal magician in the yellow pages**
haha, pretty sweet 
wiikiid… I wish it had a white USB cable 
That is very cool. Could he do one in a Bluetooth version? Wait, Bluetooth, that’s 187 points with a triple word score.
ehh, g33ks ;). It looks weird ;/
The word “triple” has two “P’s” in it now? Is the second one silent?
Captain Killjoy,
Would you believe I was going for more points?
Would you believe, Firefox does not spell check the title of a post, only the body? Well, it doesn’t…
- The Doc
id rather one made from an old school typewriter to get that steampunk look
but i dig this
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