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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: OldIsNew on Wed, 07 November 2018, 19:50:15
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A cross post, but an interesting keyboard, so I figured I'd post here too. I picked up this board somewhat randomly:
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Turned out to be a Digitran capacitive leaf board:
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After tracing out the matrix I wired up the Xwhatsit Model F to USB and retrobrighted the keys:
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Quick video of typing on it:
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That's a pretty cool board what switches does it have?
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That's a pretty cool board what switches does it have?
They are from Digitran. They are capacitive switches using a metal leaf spring over a pad in the PCB:
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The metal leafs are the columns and the pads under the solder mask on the PCB are the rows. Digitran called then "Golden Touch":
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