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Please suggest nominees for the Best input device project in 2015. This can be a self-build keyboard, a mod, a device, software, etc. You have to give a short motivation for each suggestion.

By voting in the third round of this category, you can win an assembled Infinity 60% keyboard with Matias Quiet Click switches from Input Club!

The first round ends on Thursday 3 December, 00:00hrs UTC.

Current suggestions (this list is frequently updated):

• Ellipse's new industrial Model F keyboards
• Stabilized's b.Face (v. 1.0), BBB acrylic case, 55g lubed Gateron clears, Hammer Olivetti caps
• hasu's Alps 60% PCB
• Topre dampening rings from Hypersphere
• Idollar's FSSK
• The Black Rainbow by salsaverde
• Amoeba single-switch circuit board
• koalapear's custom Alps board project The Monarch
• OptiKey, for people suffering from ALS/MND
• masaleiro's HacKeyboard

One winner here: Ellipse news industrial Model F's. The best for this project is its awesome progress and reliability. Ellipse makes what should make Unicomp

http://deskthority.net/group-buys-f50/b ... 11046.html

Stabilized b.Face (v. 1.0), BBB acrylic case, 55g lubed Gateron clears, Hammer Olivetti caps:

http://deskthority.net/photos-f62/post- ... ml#p260290

hasu's Alps 60% PCB, for making beaten keyboards with Alps switches useful

as the new 4704 has already been nominated, i nominate the topre dampening rings from Hypersphere

Yup, everyone knows what I think of those! My favourite keyboard mod yet. Enough to fix the NovaTouch!

idollar's FSSK if he finishes it before votes start!

Well, it is for a project, not for a finished project, so I think FSSK is a valid nomination!

Don't ruin my ninja technique to make him move on!

Too subtle...

Since my own reations got stuck this year and will win this cetegory next yere, I nominate this:

I just remembered one very interesting project worth mentioning, koalapear with his custom Alps board project The Monarch

What I am proposing is not an input device per se, but a software, OptiKey, for people suffering from ALS/MND.

Usually, eye tracking software can be very costly, but the reddit user /u/YeahIWroteOptiKey has worked on one for 3.5 years and he has offered it for free:

https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/wiki

Here is the reddit thread

derzemel wrote: What I am proposing is not an input device per se, but a software, OptiKey, for people suffering from ALS/MND.

Usually, eye tracking software can be very costly, but the reddit user /u/YeahIWroteOptiKey has worked on one for 3.5 years and he has offered it for free:

https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/wiki

Here is the reddit thread

ohmy... this guy definitely owns this category!

masaleiro for his HacKeyboard.

The amount of work that went into it is patently ridiculous - designing, etching and drilling a pcb, cnc routing the plate and case, custom controller, and so on.