Why do cheap key feel so bad when typing. Let’s take a tear-down of one HP keyboard.
Let’s open it
Rubber makes the “keyboard bad feel”. I remenber rubber keyboard feel from Sinclair Spectrum (at 1983)…
Flexible circuit board material is used for switches
Circuit board
Not much to see on the other side of circuit board
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Interesting keyboard project:
Sawed Off Keyboard
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/18/sawed-off-keyboard/
Have you ever had to cut a piece of furniture in two to get it into a new place? Yours truly has, having had to cut the longer part of a sectional sofa in two to get it into a high-rise apartment. That’s what [Charles]’ sawed off keyboard immediately reminded us of. It sounds just as crazy, but brilliant at the same time.
Saw your keyboard!
https://hackaday.io/project/27236-saw-your-keyboard
I created my own custom keypad by grabbing the hacksaw and literally cutting the QWERTY off an old PS2 keyboard.