Apparently there is a full page spread on the Ten Hundred keyboard in the latest issue of Make (ht 
@smellsofbikes), but I haven't been able to find a copy yet to see.
Aha, my comp copy arrived!
![A full page of Make magazine, with a picture of the Ten Hundred Keyboard up top and the following text:
Ten Hundred Word Keyboard
"One keystroke; one word of text."
Isn't that the dream! But how do you make a functional keyboard with the multitude of words in the English language? You choose the most common words, of course!
Seattle-based inventor Matthew Dockrey's Ten Hundred Keyboard includes keys for the 1,000 most used words in the English language. Dockrey hand-soldered all 1,020 keys 11,000 for words and 20 for utilities like shift and enter) to a custom set of five PCBs that connect together to form an array of keys 60 columns wide by 17 rows deep. Words are organized alphabetically, and the full keyboard stretches to a massive 5 feet wide by 18 inches deep. A Teensy 4.0 runs the keyboard control software, which also uses some of the extra keys to modify word endings to include -er, -s, -ing, -ed, and so on.
Inspired by Randall Munroe's XKCD webcomic and Thing Explainer book, the keyboard took 6 months to build, despite Dockrey's previous experience designing and building unique keybs. The hardest part? "It was printing the keycaps, definitely," he said. Dockrey built a custom jig holding 16 key caps at a time, then used a heat press and dye sublimation transfer sheets to label the keys, with a lot of trial and error.
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