A unusual keyboard key switch
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A unusual keyboard key switch
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#2Interesting! I'm curious how this would sound on a built board compared to the other unique mechanical switches out there.
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#3I wonder if this will make it into a modern mechanical keyboard.
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#4Slightly more readable version:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1260688848104771586.html
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#5A flip-flop would work to convert the analog to 1-bit digital, but you could also tweak the magnetics and with a better ADC get velocity measurements! Add some software and you can type ANGRY MESSAGES by just pounding on your keyboard, no shift/cruise control needed!
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#6Interesting! I'm curious how this would sound on a built board compared to the other unique mechanical switches out there.
Sound is determined by the springs and mechanical action. This design could potentially be made silent. More interestingly, it could give you pressure-sensitive switches ...
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#7I wonder if this will make it into a modern mechanical keyboard.
Hall effect switches are coming. Some manufacturers have already started. The cool part is that you can set the actuation point in software on them.
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#8Slightly more readable version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1260688848104771586.html
Shocked Twitter has chosen to make their reading experience even worse. Now I get linked to a tweet thread, Twitter knows it's a tweet thread of one user but what does it choose to show?
Just the single tweet, a small "Show this thread" link and then 5 random other tweets from other people not connected or related to this tweet at all.
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#9Very cool! Old keyboards and key-switches are an endless source of fun trivia.
I think Topre is the only one that manufactures keyboards with contactless key switches today. Topre key-switches measure the change in capacitance instead, and their keyboards (of the HHKB fame) sell for greater than $200.
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#10I wonder if this will make it into a modern mechanical keyboard.
Hall effect switches are coming. Some manufacturers have already started. The cool part is that you can set the actuation point in software on them.
Hall effect switches have existed in keyboards for a long time [1].
I don't think there are many of them being produced nowadays though, but there's at least one new Chinese Hall effect keyboard that came out a few years ago [2].
Wooting also has a Hall effect switch [3]. You can't buy any keyboards with it yet but you can pre-order one at least [4].
[1] https://deskthority.net/wiki/Keystroke_sensing#Hall_effect
[2] https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=84525.0