Recently I found an interesting keyboard on an old Sony Vaio laptop....
Just curious, does anyone know what it is?
(It feels linear, with an actuation force of maybe about 40g...., and the actuation point is at the bottom..)
What is dis
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Paranoid Android
- Main keyboard: CM Storm Quickfire Rapid (MX Red)
- Main mouse: Logitech G502
- Favorite switch: Buckling Springs
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Findecanor
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Whoa! A scissor switch made of metal... Can you see a leaf spring in there?
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Daniel Beardsmore
- Location: Hertfordshire, England
- Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 1 (home)/Poker II backlit (work)
- Main mouse: MS IMO 1.1
- Favorite switch: Probably not whatever I wrote here
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I started adding the scissor switch patents:
http://deskthority.net/wiki/Scissor_switch#Patents
That one above looks familiar, but there are just so many different scissor switch patents (there's a lot more than the ones I've added — in the past I simply skipped over them).
http://deskthority.net/wiki/Scissor_switch#Patents
That one above looks familiar, but there are just so many different scissor switch patents (there's a lot more than the ones I've added — in the past I simply skipped over them).
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Paranoid Android
- Main keyboard: CM Storm Quickfire Rapid (MX Red)
- Main mouse: Logitech G502
- Favorite switch: Buckling Springs
- DT Pro Member: -
I'm not sure about the leaf spring but I think it's weird that there is no rubberdome....
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Paranoid Android
- Main keyboard: CM Storm Quickfire Rapid (MX Red)
- Main mouse: Logitech G502
- Favorite switch: Buckling Springs
- DT Pro Member: -
Oh wait! I've been looking closer through the patents and this one seems sort of close...
http://www.google.com/patents/EP1164463
http://www.google.com/patents/EP1164463