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+title: "The Quest for Pain - Part 1"
+date: 2019-03-03T10:31:54+02:00
+image: content/images/2019/03/pain27-pcb.png
+slug: "pain27-part-1"
+tags: [hardware, tinkering]
+draft: true
+---
+
+I am currently in the middle of my exams period, which means that this is the perfect time to start a brand new side project to procrastinate learning!
+A while ago, I saw the project [pain27](https://github.com/uuupah/pain27) in my GitHub feed (I guess because [@hoodie](https://github.com/hoodie) starred it) and found myself immediately intrigued by the idea behind this keyboard.
+It is beautiful in its own way, yet completely unusable by design. A bad joke become reality -- exactly my sense of humor.
+After the idea of building my own version of this abomination simmered in the back of my head for about 6 months, I finally decided to start this little project.
+There is only one problem: I have absolutely no knowledge in building keyboards, neither have I soldered a single piece of electronics in all my life (and obviously I am unable to count to one).
+
+Nonetheless I teamed up with [@h4llow3En](https://github.com/h4llow3En) (who is way more knowledgable in electronics and soldering than me) to start this endeavour!
+I'm planning on writing a small series of blog posts about how to build this keyboard and what I learned while building this little beauty.
+This first part will center on the necessary components and preparations since this is all I can do while waiting for the parcels from China to arrive.
+
+---
+## Preparations
+
+- what the repo offers
+- what parts are necessary?
+- What belongs to a keyboard?
+- soldering course \o/
+
+---
+
+## The Components
+
+- assemble a list: where ordered and what?
+- image PCB here :)