Worthy Projects: Physical

Please note: this page is in progress

Unlike my personal website where I publish pages that are really in progress — with TODOs floating around, fragmentary thoughts, and much unpolish — any given in progress page on this ministry website is really only in progress insofar as I have not finished writing all the content that I expect to be eventually located on the page. That is to say, everything that is published on the page is already complete, edited, and checked-over for accuracy and correctness, but there is still more planned writing on the page to be completed.

I'm an outliner when I write, so how this plays out in practice is that I will fill in the outline skeleton (as displayed in the table of contents) with content over time, until the whole page is eventually complete.

Physical Products

  • Development of an open source, split-hand, concacave, columnar, portable, ergonomic keyboard – one that takes design cues from the Dactyl Keyboard while slimming down the number of keys and adding built-in adjustability. Try to get an assembly/distribution service of some sort in place to bring ergonomic, split-hand, concave keyboards to the masses.
  • Development of an open source, ergonomic, finger-controlled trackball that allows for a perfectly straight wrist and low pronation.
  • Development of an open source, side-actuated mechanical pencil: an update of the now-discontinued Pentel Original Quicker Clicker. Make it easy to take apart, and make parts replaceable.
  • Development of an open source, fully waterproof (i.e., submersible) multi-purpose backpack: an update of the now-discontinued Ortlieb Flight 27.