Building the Micro Journal
I am writing this post from my new digital typewriter! It’s called the Micro Journal and it’s open source, designed by Un Kyu Lee!
I built it earlier this week, and I am already in love with it! I had been looking for a distraction-free writing device like the Freewrite or the AlphaSmart for a while, but never took the plunge because they were either too expensive, or… just not cute. I know aesthetics shouldn’t matter for a very practical device, but they really do, especially when it’s supposed to be distraction-free. You don’t want to be distracted by ugliness, heh. Anyway!
When I stumbled upon the open source project on the r/WriterDeck subreddit, it looked like the perfect combination of cute, and relatively inexpensive to put together. Plus, I had a lot of the parts already that I would need to build one!
The original creator Un Kyu Lee was a delight to chat to and work with. He printed the case and did the initial soldering, and then I took over with the rest!
