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Offline keypad_steve

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What are these called?
« on: Sun, 20 July 2014, 16:21:03 »
On the back of some large keycaps they sometimes have a metal lever to ensure that it moves smoothly even when you push the key off centre. Do these have a name?




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Re: What are these called?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 20 July 2014, 16:22:12 »
It's part of the stabiliser. To ensure it moves up and down evenly on both sides.
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Re: What are these called?
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 20 July 2014, 16:23:45 »
Stabilizer wire
Stabilizer insert
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Re: What are these called?
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 20 July 2014, 17:26:34 »
Thanks guys. :)

p.s.  Is it my imagination or does the guy in katushkin's avatar picture look like Bill Murray?  ;D

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Re: What are these called?
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 20 July 2014, 17:57:06 »
Thanks guys. :)

p.s.  Is it my imagination or does the guy in katushkin's avatar picture look like Bill Murray?  ;D

It's meant to be ;) I've had JCVD, Leo Di Caprio, and now Bill Murray as my avatar. It's a series of current celebrities as gentlemen from the 18th/19th century
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Re: What are these called?
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 21 July 2014, 16:51:47 »
My favourite was Bowie.

Makes me wonder if we need another diagram on this page, but one that covers stabilisers and other gubbins:

http://deskthority.net/wiki/Key

The top pic bothers me though as I took more liberties with it than I'm happy with.

I don't imagine I will, but it's a nice thought.
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Re: What are these called?
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 21 July 2014, 17:03:13 »

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Re: What are these called?
« Reply #7 on: Mon, 21 July 2014, 17:15:21 »
Some number of hours -- I don't even remember now, it's been there a while. This one took quite a few hours, too:

http://deskthority.net/wiki/Rubber_dome_over_membrane

(The fully expanded version of the second diagram on that page.)

They're all done in isometric, which is just insane, but I don't have any CAD software or experience. That's why the MX switch is a funny shape — it's my isometric approximation. Also, being SVG (and not CAD) they are their own source files, for ease of re-use and editing by anyone (and they're public domain). I don't know that any CAD software can export to SVG.
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Re: What are these called?
« Reply #8 on: Mon, 21 July 2014, 17:36:47 »
That's a fantastic diagram!
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Re: What are these called?
« Reply #9 on: Mon, 21 July 2014, 21:54:45 »
REALLY love the iso.

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Re: What are these called?
« Reply #10 on: Mon, 21 July 2014, 22:15:15 »
Digging the Apple Ergo board.