#keyswitches

[adafruit]

PCB of the day! NeoKey 1x4 QT I2C - Four Mechanical Key Switches with NeoPixels - STEMMA QT / Qwiic 🔧🎛️🔗

NeoKey 1x4 QT I2C Breakout features 4 mechanical keys with customizable colors. It fits Cherry MX/compatible switches, has 4 Kailh sockets, and connects via I2C. Multiple boards can be chained together, up to 16 on a single bus. Compatible with Arduino and CircuitPython, super flexibility for macropad creation.

[shadowblade8192]

the massive rush of dopamine you get from fixing your broken electronics is so good

like i broke one keyswitch on a (rather expensive) keyboard and im so glad i have the knowledge to go "ok so i just need to desolder the keyswitch and resolder a new one" rather than "well shit i gotta buy a new keyboard i guess"

[bunnygirlskull]

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[elmaelectronic]

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[foone]

Concept: a woman is holding hands with a robot, and the woman is wearing a shirt that says "I like my women like I like my keyboards" on the front and "mechanical" on the back, over an exploded view of a cherry mx brown keyswitch.

The robot's shirt says "flesh lover" in the old recaptcha distorted text style. The back has "select all the squares with the cutest girl" and a 3x3 montage of photos of the woman currently holding her right hand.

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[weaseltotheface]

ok lets type on this thing

it’s ok

i do think i like the anne pro better but i can get used to this one and i can use the anne pro with my laptop maybe cuz it’s got bluetooth and i like typing on it

i do like this wrist rest a lot tho it’s very nice to have and it does really help lol

all in all i wasn’t expecting it to be as nice as my anne pro and it’s not but it’s still nice to type on and it’s actually a little more quiet than my anne pro so i’m sure that kate will like that more

the space key is....less than ideal but it i’ll get use to it, im sure its something i can mod later down the line if it get super annoying

and im sure my brother will appreciate having a fullsize keyboard when he’s watching the cat next month cuz he did NOT like the 60% layout even tho it rocks

[nym-wibbly]

You know what I really miss as a writer? Early computer keyboards. The ones with the metal base that were so heavy that you could use one as a lethal blunt instrument should the need arise. They never moved. Their wedge shape angled for your fingers like a touch-starved whore, curving for better access. They went clicky-clacky and gave resistance as you typed. The letters never wore off the keys. The home key nubs never wore down. You didn't get that smooth worn bit on the spacebar without years of ultra-heavy use. You could vacuum them with a household hoover. They'd survive any apocalypse short of a drink getting dumped right over 'em.

The modern clicky-key keyboard revivals with their £££ designer price tags just aren't hitting the spot. They have the keyswitches but they don't have that brick shithouse engineering. I want the keyboard that came with my fourth-hand 8086 DOS machine. I banged out entire fanzines on that thing, going to make coffee while it buffered my words or saved them to disk. I went from first-grade-certificate touch-typing to smokin' expert on that thing. I miss solidity under my fingers as I create words.

[andmaybegayer]

let’s dispel once and for all the fiction that mechanical keyswitches are good. They aren’t that much better than the alternatives.

More earnestly: the number one benefit of mechanical keyswitches is that they grant a designer an extraordinary degree of latitude when it comes to the structure and design of a keyboard. Unless you really highly value clickiness the majority of their features can be matched by high quality rubber domes from any decent keyboard manufacturer.

Their real strength is that you can pick consistent, reliable switches and put them anywhere you want in 3D space and just run wires to them to make a unique 1 of 1 keyboard that perfectly fits you, and you can easily stick a microcontroller with custom firmware in there to implement whatever features you want.

I got a Logitech ergo rubber dome today and it feels great, the biggest issue is that I wish it didn’t have a numpad and I wish it had more thumb buttons so that they could do more work. And of course I would! That’s what my homemade custom mechanical split keyboard looks like! I could make that to exact specs with some wood tools and a laser cut sheet of brass for the switchplate, whereas this Logitech is a miracle made of over a dozen unique injection moulded parts with an overall mould cost probably exceeding USD 50k!

I would love to have exactly the perfect high end rubber dome mass-produced keyboard of my dreams, but no one makes it, and that’s, reasonable, I have very specific dreams, but I have never understood bog standard layout mechanicals. You could be having a much better time with something with nicer switches!

Sorely tempted to figure out if I can physically hack off the numpad here and sneakily hot-glue some kailh choc switches to the wristrest as thumb keys. At the moment I'm just putting my trackball square on top of the numpad which works fine. I'll print a cap for it later. This is going to end up at Gainful Employment Location not home. At the very least I want to see if there's a way to distinguish the two spacebars in software and use some clever hacks to make them behave as enter/backspace/both.

ISO enter keys were sent by the devil but I don't really have a lot of good options unless I want to import ANSI keyboards.

[rintezukas]

I woule love to have the kind of money people must have to buy the extra expensive keyboard switches i keep getting them advertised to me and its like. there CANNOT be that much of a difference. but somehow theres enough people buying them to support an artisan subindustry within the already really frivolous specialty keyswitch industry

[cea-tide]

Tech, Internet and Privacy Archive

A collection of advice on technology and online privacy.

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Tumblr

How to block tumblr live with ublock origin

How to back up your tumblr blog

Firefox

Why to use Firefox and basic addons

User-Agent Switcher for Firefox

Firefox startup guide (and why other browsers suck)

Small list of FF extensions by @/kawaiimunism

List of FF extensions and privacy tips by @/cea-tide (me)

Another list of FF extensions

Block .webp format (FF extension)

Firefox now has in-built pdf editing functionality

Large tech enshittification and resources/tips against it

Some firefox forks

Return youtube dislike (FF addon)

Turning off javascript (also FF addon)

Behind The Overlay (FF addon)

Youtube Search Fixer (FF addon) remove the clutter from results

Internet

List of useful websites

List of fun websites from the old internet

Large collection of links by @/cryptidize

Collection of links and guide to the old internet

Links and guides to the old internet

Gopher websites, an old alternative to www sites

How to disappear online

Beginner's guide to the indie web

Making websites is easy

Skip Google for research (other search engines) by @/s-n-arly

Stop using google, alternative search engines (by me) and what cloud services you need to look for

Same post as above but with additional search engines instead

alternative search engines

Computer literacy (and basic tips)

How to view removed reddit comments

How to see what that deleted video in your yt playlist was

Breezewiki: remove clutter from fandom wikis / direct link (also a browser extension)

Indie wikies (fuck fandom)

Large tech enshittification and resources/tips against it

Science websites you should /definitely/ avoid

Setting up a PI Hole (network ad blocker)

A guide to using an RSS feed

Explore a random website (StumbleUpon/Cloudhiker)

Epilepsy Alert browser extension (with FF alternative)

Cheap/free websites for learning

Turning off javascript (also FF addon)

Turning off some tracking on mobile

Ad-blocking on mobile

Miscellaneous

What keyswitches to use (flow chart)

Putting files on dvd

Why NOT to use registry cleaners

What will make your computer go faster (and what not)?

Tweaking your Windows experience (mostly shutting it up)

Stop Windows from asking you to "Finish setting up"

Computer literacy (and basic tips)

Free sound library / direct link

Science websites you should /definitely/ avoid

Buying a computer, a guide

[mechanical-creature]

speloinky drive 2

changed the motors. stuck some 9v batteries and keyswitches together for testing

its so much better now

steering is still bad tho

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[foone]

what would you consider a good keyboard? (I know nothing about keyboards mechanical or otherwise so I'm just curious)

Honestly this is a perfectly fine keyboard for most users. A 20$ flat membrane thing.

The only reason why I would recommend getting anything more expensive than that is that you type too fast and sloppy for it (I have this problem), or you need more physical feedback when you type.

In which case, you're going to need a mechanical keyboard. Which one doesn't matter a huge amount, but it's important to keep in mind that this is a hobby. That's fine, but it means that a lot of the products out there are for people who are buying mechanical keyboards because they're into mechanical keyboards, not because they need a keyboard and a mechanical keyboard is the best choice for the job.

I've been using basically this keyboard (I've got slightly different options and it's an older model they don't make anymore) for years:

It's not too expensive for a mechanical keyboard, it's available in all the keyswitch types you'd want, and it has all the keys in a sensible layout. Works great.

There's different types of keyswitches, btw. This is something that's hard to explain. I'd recommend going to a best buy or computer store and seeing if they have a demonstrator. Basically it just comes down to how clicky or tactile they are, how much force they require, etc.

If you're gonna be playing games, you probably want cherry mx red or black: they're linear and fast, making them quick to react when you press them. If you're mainly going to be typing, you want brown or blue. brown is tactile (you can feel when you bottom it out), but it doesn't make as much noise as a blue. That's better for shared offices and such where your typing would annoy people, but worse for feedback. A lot of people like to really hear it when they type.

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[daemonhxckergrrl]

i don't have a good way of cleaning my keyswitches (this time it was lager but they must have several different beverages of all kinds in them by now lmao) so the only thing that works is to keysmash loads or pretend i'm one of them QC robots and smash the mushy keys a bunch of times to try work through the residue on the inside of the switch