We’ve heard people ask for an even cheaper entry-level stenography keyboard, so we went ahead and made the Picosteno! We were able to cut costs by avoiding paying for PCB assembly and replacing the aluminum backplate with a PCB backplate. The keyswitches and keycaps are still the best you can buy for hobbyist stenography atcontinue reading
Assembling the Picosteno!
You’ll need a soldering iron, some solder (ideally lead-free*), and either a solder fume extractor or an open window to begin. You can see all the required parts here (with the keycaps and bumpers missing in this photo) *Lead-free solder is recommended as the solder joints will be exposed. First, you’ll want to solder thecontinue reading
September Ecosteno Restock!
Changes from v1.0 to v1.1 While the size and key layout is exactly the same, the locations of the screw holes has moved closer to the edges – this was done to share the backplates between the Multisteno and Ecosteno. There are also firmware changes, as the PCB wiring layout has also been modified (differentcontinue reading
Introducing the Multisteno and Case!
We’ve been working on this new pair of products for the past few months and after weeks of delays, they’re finally here! The Multisteno is our new steno keyboard that adds enough switches to saturate the Gemini PR protocol, allowing it to work with most steno theories (especially some non-English ones that require more keys).continue reading
Big February Restock!
We’re getting funds ready for the next big order so we’ll be listing the next two batches worth of EcoStenos to the next restock Tomorrow, February 25, 2022 at 7PM EST! We have all 100+ boards tested and assembled, with only the packing and shipping left (for the most part), which means we shouldn’t sellcontinue reading
First Restock of 2022!
We’re getting ready for the first of several batches to come out in Q1 2022! We’ll be restocking 50+ boards tomorrow, January 5th 2022 at 7:00PM EST. We’ve been able to speed up the build time a good amount and are already working on the boards in the next batch. There have been a lotcontinue reading
Fourth Batch Restock! – October 2021
The fourth batch of roughly ~50 boards will be restocked at 12:00PM EST October 29th 2021! We’ve had everything in place for a much larger batch to be ready for almost two months now, but all of that has been held up by a singular slow USPS package. However, this should be figured out withincontinue reading
Third Batch Restock! – August 2021
The third batch of EcoStenos will soon be ready for purchase! We hit some snags with various things that ended up delaying this batch by several weeks, but we were able to smooth things out since then. New International Shipping Options – Around the world! We are now offering shipping to anywhere serviced by USPScontinue reading
Second Batch Restock! – June 2021
The second batch of EcoStenos will soon be ready for purchase! The second batch took longer than expected to complete due to running out of some critical parts that had a long shipping time. New International Shipping Options! We are now offering shipping to Canada and the UK via USPS Priority Mail International, Priority Mailcontinue reading
EcoSteno Release! – April 27, 2021
The EcoSteno is now up for sale on the products page! It has taken us several months to get everything set up for our first batch of 20 boards, and we are now thrilled to offer the EcoSteno as an introductory board to the world of stenography! Details are available on the product page. Wecontinue reading