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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Kavik on Mon, 06 May 2019, 14:26:46
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These three types have been done to death. How about some new sensations?
I have a few ideas:
1. Vibrating switches. They vibrate slightly when pressed.
2. Buzzing switches. They emit a buzzing sound when pressed. This can be combined with vibrating.
3. Zapping switches. They produce a small electric shock to the fingertips when pressed. This can be combined with vibrating and/or buzzing. Don't use if you have a heart condition.
4. Collapsing switches. Instead of sliding down into a contact, the switch collapses into it, like those collapsible camping cups. This is similar to a rubber dome though. These don't require keycaps.
5. Stabbing switches. They have a little needle in the center that pokes your fingertips when pressed. Requires special or modified keycaps. Needle height is adjustable and can be used to train the user not to bottom out. Gives a new meaning to "stabs". Also good for checking blood glucose levels.
6. Whoopee cushion switches. Each switch has a small bag of air underneath it that emits an imitation fart noise when pressed. It refills with air on the upstroke.
7. Kerchunck switches. Similar to a very tactile clicky switch, but it feels as though the key is actually actuating something in a machine. A true mechanical switch, akin to a typewriter switch. These can be made with levers or pulleys.
8. Musical switches. Just like a piano, each key strikes a string that emits a different note when pressed. Concert C pitch.
Someone get Kailh on the phone!
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5. Stabbing switches. They have a little needle in the center that pokes your fingertips when pressed. Requires special or modified keycaps. Needle height is adjustable and can be used to train the user not to bottom out. Gives a new meaning to "stabs". Also good for checking blood glucose levels.
Should be mandatory on RGB keyboards.
8. Musical switches. Just like a piano, each key strikes a string that emits a different note when pressed. Concert C pitch.
So many keyboards that already do this, but are out of tune ...
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I'd think i put those zapping switches if i would type Endgame or even worse, Bible spoilers.
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5. Stabbing switches. They have a little needle in the center that pokes your fingertips when pressed. Requires special or modified keycaps. Needle height is adjustable and can be used to train the user not to bottom out. Gives a new meaning to "stabs". Also good for checking blood glucose levels.
Should be mandatory on RGB keyboards.
8. Musical switches. Just like a piano, each key strikes a string that emits a different note when pressed. Concert C pitch.
So many keyboards that already do this, but are out of tune ...
Stabbing switches?
Rip my hands and fingers.. i'd think i would have to amputate them because of the amount i'd get stabbed due to me bottoming out.
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Whoopee cushion switches? Million dollar idea. Take my money.
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One thing i think would be cool would be a motorized latching key switch for locking keys such as Caps Lock and Num Lock.
Instead of (or in addition to) having Caps Lock and Num Lock lights, move the locking key up or down if the state is changed by the host and not the user.
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The fresh new outlook this community needs. I've got some ideas as well. Here's one:
Instead of being mounted on anything, the key is held aloft by taught rubber strings. Hall effect sensors for custom actuation point. Bonus: make the travel ridiculously big (infinite, even - just leave a hole under it and through the table) and set the actuation point real low. This gives you a truly Herculean keyboard, where only the swolest of the swole may type on succesfully. Truly the Excalibur of keyboards.
By the way, I think in the olden days there were keyboards with loud BEEPS whenever you pushed a key (in relation to buzzing switches).
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8. Musical switches. Just like a piano, each key strikes a string that emits a different note when pressed. Concert C pitch.
Already been done with the KUL ES-87 with MX Clears, aka bird chimes. :cool:
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The fresh new outlook this community needs. I've got some ideas as well. Here's one:
Instead of being mounted on anything, the key is held aloft by taught rubber strings. Hall effect sensors for custom actuation point. Bonus: make the travel ridiculously big (infinite, even - just leave a hole under it and through the table) and set the actuation point real low. This gives you a truly Herculean keyboard, where only the swolest of the swole may type on succesfully. Truly the Excalibur of keyboards.
By the way, I think in the olden days there were keyboards with loud BEEPS whenever you pushed a key (in relation to buzzing switches).
Small fingers?
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The fresh new outlook this community needs. I've got some ideas as well. Here's one:
Instead of being mounted on anything, the key is held aloft by taught rubber strings. Hall effect sensors for custom actuation point. Bonus: make the travel ridiculously big (infinite, even - just leave a hole under it and through the table) and set the actuation point real low. This gives you a truly Herculean keyboard, where only the swolest of the swole may type on succesfully. Truly the Excalibur of keyboards.
By the way, I think in the olden days there were keyboards with loud BEEPS whenever you pushed a key (in relation to buzzing switches).
Small fingers?
W-who told you that...? It's certainly not true, I have the biggest fingers. Brb building a wall