TLDR; my keboard has steel plates and I constantly get static shocked, and finally damaged my MCU, what can I do to protect it in the future besides air humidifier, can I do some changes to the keyboard to protect it? What do you all do with your keyboards?
Hi all,
I have created my first mechanical keyboard (blog post being produced, I will post it when it is done!), and it is made as a sandwich with 2 steel plates. Btw. I would have never done that without Geek Hack, tnx a lot
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Problem I have is that in my home I often get static shocks.
I started using my keyboard 2 days ago and since my keyboard has casing made of steel plates, I had multiple static shocks in those two days, some of them pretty strong -> some of them would bring keyboard in such state that I had to unplug it from my PC to restart the MCU to get it to work again.
Finally, after shock number N, I realized that one of the columns on the keyboard stopped working
. I am fixing that right, since everything else works I am hoping just changing pin could be enough, we will see.
Since I did not take static shocks seriously enough, I decided to change that.
I read about it and am now buying air humidifier, however I would also like to somehow protect keyboard itself.
I was wondering, did anybode else have similar problems and how did you solve them? Is there a way to somehow modify keyboard to protect it from static shocks? Maybe throw in some eletrical element somewhere to soak that burst of high voltage in, or somehow ground it or smth (I am not experienced with electronics but willing to pick it up if pointed in the right direction).
Thanks!
