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clojure.core/typing - Matt Adereth

Matt Adereth's Clojure/conj talk covers the history of keyboards and how he used Clojure generating OpenSCAD to design and build his custom Dactyl ergonomic keyboard, including 3D printing and laser-cut parts.

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a fantastic talk on code-driven CAD and custom keyboard design, linked in threads on OpenSCAD and keyboards.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
ClojureTV
Topic
code-driven keyboard design
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
9
Recommendation years in dataset
2016–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • There is a small clojure project that transpiles clojure to openscad, (if I remember correctly...) [LINK] Demonstrated and talked about in this clip: [VIDEO] edit: it is a fantastic talk but the part related to this starts at 17:35

    tjoff on Hacker News · 2021-10
    In Code CAD – Use code to create CAD models
  • 1 Martin Thompson busting myths about hardware and explaining why it's important to know. Mechanical sympathy makes you better, because you know how the code actually runs on the machine and interacts with different layers of memory [LINK] 2 Matt Godbolt (the man behind GCC …

    petr_tik on Hacker News · 2016-10
    In Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
  • Very impressive and inspiring. I've been thinking about making a custom keyboard for a while now but, while I have no problems with the electronic and software side of things, I'm a bit overwhelmed with the 3D modelling required. I tried learning Blender but it …

    simias on Hacker News · 2019-04
    In I made a smart watch from scratch

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