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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: May0 on Sun, 25 May 2014, 12:03:13
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Hello, I am designing and building a keyboard from scratch. I am trying to make it as cost efficient as possible and was wondering if this idea I had for alternate stabilizers would work. So, instead of buying normal costar stabilizers I thought, for at least the spacebar, I could add in two extra switches on either side that wouldn't have any electronic function.
(http://cdn.wasdkeyboards.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/492x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/b/a/base_spacebar.png)
I'm planning on using either blue or green switches for the keys and red or black as the stabilizers. Would this work and has anyone tried it before? Thanks.
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I dont think that would work as well as a Cherry or Costar stabilizer because there wouldn't be anything linking the two "stabilizer switches" together. A traditional stabilizer works as well as it does because there is a wire that links the left and right side together.
Also, you would need to consider the effect having two additional switches would have on actuation force. Assuming you used 3 stock switches, you would essentially be tripling the amount of force required to actuate the key. I would think using two linear switches and putting in very light springs would be the best course of action if you do try it. Again though, I don't think having two switches would give the desired stabilizing effect. I'm not going to say its not worth trying, I might be off the mark and it might work decent enough but my guess is that you would continue to see binding when pressing the far sides of a key.
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it works, just like the rose system keys, but its not as consistent