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

She’s a keycap artist, crafting particular person keycaps which can be actually tiny artworks. She makes use of just a few 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 individual 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 different Hive, and the creator of the indie online game Delivery.