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Yeah, will probably need a custom bootloader and such.

nice, I saw the nRF52840 at CES. I think I have a dev kit somewhere (haven't had time to even open the box, lol).

I may be interested in adding kiibohd/KLL support for the Nordic chips

Microswitch/Honeywell definitely had keyboard switches (reed), by 1966. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1471/23869141541_117bd99249_k.jpg DSC02714 https://www.flickr.com/photos/triplehaata/sets/72157647400411814/ I believe, this keyboard was made for/by Mohawk Data Systems, but I don't actually have ...

My rule of thumb. If you like MX Clears more than MX Browns, you'll like the Halo Clears. It has more of a feeling like an MX style switch with awesome tactility. Otherwise Halo True is for you. The Halo True has a gentle and smooth lead-in (due to lower preload) and higher final resistance to help ...

I'm running around today (with it being the launch and all), so this will be a bit shorter than I'd usually do for something like this. Really, it came down to reducing the number of SKUs. Having more variations tends to be a lot more expensive than people realize. If Massdrop wasn't involved, Input...

Basically, we had to make a trade-off on the pcb in order to support hotswap and RGB at the same time. You can't overlap these components like you can soldered switches and through-hole LEDs (LEDs also need to be in the proper position or the keycap won't light up correctly). Firmware wise you are c...

Yeah, ISO support is a big stretch when doing manufacturing... sorry...

Hopefully should be able to release info on the switches soon.

K-Type Pre-launch It's finally happening! The K-Type is the project that has taken up most of my time in the last 2 years. I've had a lot of help from the keyboard community (especially DT) through my various keyboarding endeavors and to me the K-Type is a way to help grow the mechanical keyboardin...

Yeah, I think of it as "total force to actuate". It's the area under the curve.

https://c8.staticflickr.com/6/5540/31559228535_e8e3590516_k.jpg DSC08051 I'll take another picture once I receive the new ones :D (Might have to wait until after CES though) Oh, and something I never noticed before. On the very first Wingnut package (sent by CF directly) (2nd DTAs). https://c7.stat...

Turns out taking 10's of thousands of keyboard photos is good practice :D A couple other photos of the stunningly beautiful Soviet UV-erase IC. https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5328/30498718130_57a077cd0b_k.jpg DSC06841 https://c6.staticflickr.com/6/5336/30164387213_eb86843060_k.jpg DSC06840 A good cam...

The DT community really had me sweating this year. It makes me soooo happy that others enjoy relic hunting as much as I do. Also, fellow ebay hunters, if you're worried about me competing against you. PM me first, I'm happy to let someone else in the keyboard community have it (just make sure to tak...

Input Club is a company I founded to work push keyboard tech forward, though I've been working on the force curve gauge a lot longer than IC has been around.

Chiovatto wrote: ↑That first photo is freakin beautiful, does anybody knows what camera Haata used??

Sony a6000 /w E 30mm F3.5 Macro.
One of the nice parts of Flickr is that it provides all the exif info (if you've enabled it): https://flic.kr/p/MXwmrz

So, something I've talked about for quite a while that affects most keyboard switches is "spring friction". Or said another way spring binding. When springs are compressed, they are held into place in switches. The coils of the spring rub against the side of the housing causing additional resistanc...

So, something I've talked about for quite a while that affects most keyboard switches is "spring friction". Or said another way spring binding. When springs are compressed, they are held into place in switches. The coils of the spring rub against the side of the housing causing additional resistance...

Force curves! Personally, I really like Matias switches. They've put real R&D into keyboard switch development, something that, until very recently, just wasn't done. Something neat, the Actuation Force (work) between Matias Clicky and Matias Quiet Click is the same! :shock: I wonder if this is a fl...

Do you know if there is any difference between new and older cherry browns? I could swear the cherry browns from an old compac board I had were way more tactile than current browns. I'm not sure if its due to switch difference, of just because pretty much every board nowadays place the switches ups...

Also, I don't have any Nixdorf cherry switches. I'd be happy to measure some if I can get a couple.

Can I ask, what's the margin of error in the measurement of each of these data points? I haven't gone far enough to determine what this is yet. However, if you click on the graph, then select additional presses, you'll notice that it's quite consistent between presses. According to the Imada websit...

Hmm. In terms of all the Cherry MX Black switches I've tried over the years. They tend to vary a bit, some smoother than others. To me what's sad, is that there's this wide deviation. I'm also not surprised by your comment that some later MX Blacks were quite smooth (could've been new tooling for al...

Here's a NIB standard Cherry MX Red for comparison.

I'm going to leave the analysis to the readers. But really, Cherry, you were so. damn. good. at linear switches. https://plot.ly/~haata/266.png This is what we have now for MX Black switches. Notice how it's a bit different. Perhaps this is enough to convince everyone that there really is a differen...

Thanks for the nominations :D Here's my my list of important discoveries this year. I'm a sucker for magnets if you hadn't noticed :mrgreen: Bezkont. Klávesnice 262.3 https://c3.staticflickr.com/2/1719/24492499210_a90c5437a3_b.jpg DSC04317 Not only does this soviet keyboard look it uses rather nice ...

It looks to be some sort of Cortron ITW magnetic valve keyboard. The prototype label is pretty cool. The switches had already been around a while (Licon, the predecessor to Cortron also used ITW magnetic valve switches). https://deskthority.net/wiki/ITW_magnetic_valve I have quite a few keyboards wi...

(responding to a few people with this) Work vs. Total Force Yeah, the Total Force is something that I'm still iffy on. I don't like calling it energy, because I don't feel it's representative enough for force curves. To quote my response to the reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeybo...

It's a tactile electrical contact switch.

That extra piece of wire seems to be a filler for a diode.

Yeah, if we can somehow link mediawiki to plotly, then when new analytics are ready the graphs can auto-update. I'm no webdev so I'm not sure how hard that'd be. But yeah, if something I can do makes it easier to add into the DT wiki, I'm totally up for it (as long as it can be automated :P). Licens...

Someone recently mentioned that this keypad is from some sort of CNC machine. And with keys like FEEDHOLD it makes sense.

The Problem with Mechanical Switch Reviews Like most of you, I take keyboards way too seriously. However, unlike most of you, I’m an engineer. This means I need facts, data, and real evidence before I can form an opinion. And this lack of actual information has always bothered me when it comes to h...