Constructing tiny keycaps right into a small enterprise

Mechanical keyboard love lovers have created a small growth in small companies. Persons are making a residing designing and constructing PCBs, switches, caps, and complete keyboards. They’re partnering with small factories to convey their creations to life. However some artisans are constructing the merchandise themselves — no manufacturing unit concerned. The artist who goes by the identify Tinymakesthings is a type of creators.

She’s a keycap artist, crafting particular person keycaps which can be actually tiny artworks. She makes use of a number of mediums to construct her keycaps however depends totally on clay and resin. She broadcasts her work on Twitch and sells her caps in her personal store, and he or she felt like an ideal particular person to talk with for the following episode of Solo Acts.

Solo Acts is a five-part Vergecast miniseries airing each Monday. Every episode, Ashley Esqueda speaks with creators who’re constructing actually cool stuff on the web all by themselves. In earlier episodes, she’s chatted with the creator of the McRib Locator, the builder of the Twitter various Hive, and the creator of the indie online game Beginning.

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