deskthority

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/6953763553_b7d4410d99_b.jpg This is a strange but rather necessary training excercise for my brain; not having the luxury of looking down when typing :). I find I am 90% there already, I just got lazy over the years. Good old AT102W, a good KB to train on, if not ...

Okay.

So, are you interested in my ideas? It seems not, if you're laughing them off. I promise not to sell you one at cost price, once they're released... okay.

ripster wrote:Oh THAT.

Old idea:
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?8837 ... t=magnetic

Old, but good. It's often the ideas that are considered "old" and thus dismissed, that end up being the best ones of all. Great minds think likewise, it seems.

You might want to read up on hall effect switches^^. This is spring-related, and nothing to do with the switches. You're talking about a totally different aspect of the key; the switch, whereas I am tallking about the force required to actuate the switch, being variable by means of magnetic repulsi...

If you want to see a really crappy site, who, by self-admission, haven't updated their code since the 1990s, try: http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/threads.php Not sure what is supposed to be "crappy" there. Simple, functional design, and It seems to work perfectly. They still use table-based layout...

Hi there. The inventor that I am, I just had a thought for a mechanical keyboard mechanism. So here it is: In the usual mechanical (Cherry MX, alps etc) switches, you have a spring. Well, instead of a spring, why not use two tiny magnets, with their like poles facing, so that they push away from one...

Ascaii wrote:Ive seen them go for anywhere from 5 to 35. Cleaned and tested should net you at least 25 pounds.

Thank you

They sell keyboards, not sports cars. It doesn't even matter, because word of mouth means that they'll continue selling them, and the website is functional... at least it's not taking 30s to load, pulling in 100 different ad banners from external sites and loading pointless javascript code. It looks...

Mrinterface wrote:

glossywhite wrote: You don't know what you don't know.

If you know what you don't know you'd know everything.
Kinda boring : there would be no incentive to explore and be amazed.

It's a relief you're not in charge of product design at Apple

ripster wrote:Looks like the Fukishima nuclear plants pre-Tsunami.


Looks about the same now but with lots of dead cows.

Come on "Keyboard King"... I thought you knew everything?

Maarten wrote:You mean the stabilizer?

I must do, yes. Thanks

Where does one buy replacement (new) keycaps for a Dell AT102W?

Thank you

Would someone tell me the proper term for the long piece of wire which sits under the space bar keycap, and clips into it and the keyboard? I'm a n00b, haha!

Thanks

Oooh, can I play? It's an idiot filter. If you can work out the mouseover of the youtube button, you pass, else you fail. Of course I can work out a video ID, but so what? It's not explained, and that's useless. :? I could tell you that you have to walk down a street, and in one of the houses is a ...

Might be useful if that was explained in the tag code itself. How stupid.

Thanks

Hey guys. So it seems a certain amount of pointless re-learning is needed in order to work out how to embed YouTube videos on this forum... so please, how does one go about this? It's hardly intuitive.

Thank you

mintberryminuscrunch wrote:no! trolls will eat you

A sensible answer would have been sufficient.

Key Tronic Ergoforce KT2001: Typing Sound [YouTube]

Is geekhack *actually* safe to visit now?

I am about to send a close, windows-using friend there, and they're likely to be annoyed if it flags up as dangerous.

Thank you.

So you want 1 mm before actuation/click and then linear to the bottom? Why? Scissor switches and Cherry switches both have about 2 mm of travel to actuation, only that with Cherry switches you have travel after actuation while with scissor switches you have none. Or is it mostly the click sound tha...

Maybe my title wasn't the best, but I'm wondering if such a thing exists as this: a keyboard which uses shallow scissor-based keys, as on the current Apple keyboards, but with clicky, tactile metallic switch keys such as the Cherry MX Blues , with a shallow concave surface (pardon my lack of knowled...

Ovoxo wrote:GH has been down for the past 2-3 days. Trojan detected when you try to go there. That's the reason why there hasn't been any replies there.

Well people have replied, for the last few days, only not to this quiz. Anyhoo, using Fedora, trojans wash over me.

Findecanor wrote:All Key Tronic rubber dome keyboards have cylindrical sliders. The KT2001 and the Designer also have a curved back plane.

I am guessing that this is a IBM/Lenovo board. One of those with a blue Enter key.

Nope.

As an aside: noone at GH has replied yet... and they're (supposedly) the experts...

webwit wrote:Hmmmmm... Key Tronic KT2001?

Nope. Keep trying...

For all you wonderfully talented KB experts... ID the Brand &/or model, from these photos:





And yes - it's pure junk :p

I always thought "Radeon" was a washing powder (it was). I can't take AMD seriously, with their stupid codenames. "Radeon" (Put two heaped scoops in the powder drawer, dial to 40 degree setting, and press start) :p "Phenom" (Meant to make you think they're "Phenom"enol, but they aren't.) Give me a b...

I'm waiting for the vote results from the remainder of the ~7 billion humans on earth. Those who voted do not even represent 1/10th of the population of a small school. I'm well aware you're very clever, and I do not dispute it... but your ego is an ugly thing to behold, and you seem to be the only...

I'm waiting for the vote results from the remainder of the ~7 billion humans on earth. Those who voted do not even represent 1/10th of the population of a small school. I'm well aware you're very clever, and I do not dispute it... but your ego is an ugly thing to behold, and you seem to be the only ...