Civic Issue Blog #3

There are many, many solutions that could help to eliminate the inequity and discrimination perpetuated by our criminal justice system.  The following approaches are a combination of my own opinions, as well as the solutions posed by the Sentencing Project’s report to the United Nations. To start, more funding should be provided to all institutions […]

Civic Issue Blog #2

The focus of this blog will be to identify specific policies and actions that have disproportionately affected communities across our nation.  Above all, members of lower income communities as well as ethnic minorities have been unfairly targeted, and prosecuted within our criminal justice system.  A report to the United Nations in 2018 by the Sentencing […]

Civic Issue Blog #1

The focus of my civic issue blog will center around flaws in the criminal justice system and potential options for reform.  People often aren’t aware how bad our criminal justice system has gotten, prosecuting citizens to the fullest extent of the law for minor infractions, while allowing real criminals to operate out of sight, completely […]

Best GMK Keycap Sets

This post will be a fairly simple one; we wont really be discussing anything that technical at all.  Rather I figured we’d keep this one pretty light, and go over some of the best GMK keycap sets – in my opinion, of course.  I’ll also be sure to include a picture of each of the […]

Where to Find Mechanical Keyboards

If you have been following this blog over the last couple months, you may have become somewhat intrigued to learn about the hobby of building custom mechanical keyboards.  That being said, finding information about mechanical keyboards can be somewhat difficult – unless you know where to look.  That has kind of been the purpose of […]

Hall Effect Switches

So far in this blog we’ve discussed the ins and outs of mechanical keyboards, and all their respective components – particularly switches.  Switches are the most fundamental aspect of a mechanical keyboard and they can define nearly every characteristic of the board from its feel to its sound to its cost.  Today we’ll be discussing […]

How I Got Into Mechanical Keyboards

I’ve spent the last 12 or so weeks detailing almost everything I know about keyboards.  I haven’t really spent that much time, however, explaining how I got into the hobby in the first place.  I’ll try to shed some light on that in this post. In high school, I played a lot of video games, […]

40% Keyboards

In previous articles I have discussed what form factor means in terms of keyboards.  It essentially just refers to the size and orientation of the keyboard.  You’re probably most accustomed to seeing full size keyboards or maybe TKL, which should have all of the keys that you are already familiar with.  There are, however, some […]

Semester 2 Intro and KBDFans Odin

Hello, my name is Naveen Szymkowiak, and for the second semester of RCL, I will be continuing my passion blog series about custom keyboards.  Some technical language regarding the hobby will definitely be used, so checking out the first post or two from semester one here would probably be helpful.  Of course, this is not […]