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Reusing old shit: laptop keyboard

Here we are with another experiment in reusing otherwise trash-destined electronics material; in this episode we are going to refurbish a keyboard, from the recovering of the internal "matrix" to the design of the PCB destined as the controller board, to finally reworking of an existing firmware to create a new USB keyboard.

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blog migration to Nikola

After running for a couple of years using jekill as a static site generator I decided to switch to nikola for a couple of reasons: first of all because is implemented in python, a language that I know more than ruby and this allows me to improve the platform and customize it more to suite my needs.

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Reusing old shit: lcd screen

It's happened in the past that someone gifted me of very old (and not working anymore) laptops that otherwise would have been thrown in the garbage; my idea for them was of reusing some parts that are more valuable: battery, disks, keyboards, etc...

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