nearly a decade ago I discovered a bug in my keyboard and it made me so angry that I had to get into mechanical keyboards and making my own keyboards to avoid it.
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maybe I'll find a small usb keyboard, disable the internal keyboard, and glue the new one over it
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Is it possible to add diodes to an existing keyboard that lacks them, or does it require a different circuit design in the first place?
I'm a bit of a keyboard geek with electronics background, but I've never looked into the details of the matrix they use.
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@cazabon I think you could add them but it'd be more efficient with a different circuit
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I'm sorry for everyone who just went and tested this and realized for the first time that their keyboard is a piece of shit
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BTW my actual advice for keyboards is that everyone should buy a mechanical keyboard but buy the cheapest you can.
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the difference in "key feel" doesn't matter to me, but the difference in IF THE KEY WORK OR NOT is huge. But that's basically fixed on every mechanical keyboard, even the ones in the 20-30$ range
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and honestly the difference between a 30$ mechanical keyboard and a 300$ mechanical keyboard is not that huge, in my opinion.
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but it's way bigger than the gap between a 15$ membrane keyboard and a 30$ bargin-bin mechanical
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and if you like the 30$ mechanical maybe then try the 100$ mechanical.
it'll be nicer.but only nicer. The difference between a membrane keyboard and a mechanical keyboard is that the mechanical keyboard will work. That's way more important than "nicer keyfeel" and "neat looking caps"
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@[email protected] also keycaps are largely exchangable, find a set you think looks neat on aliexpress for 15 euros
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@syn yeah, you can always swap that later. and probably just as much onto a 300$ keyboard as a 35$ keyboard, they're both gonna be cherry
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@foone I uh... >.>;;;
I actually switched back to a membrane keyboard because I didn't like the "keyfeel" of the mechanical one that I bought.
But most crucially the mechanical keyboard I bought DOES NOT HAVE A PAUSE/BREAK KEY and does not have any possible way of getting it back, and I use that key as my Discord PTT key because *literally nothing else in the modern day uses it*
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@foone Same on my MSI Alpha 15 keyboard.
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@dragonarchitect ugh. I hate when they drop keys. my keyboard is also missing a bunch of keys and others are stuffed onto function+something
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@foone Oh also my search for a ready-to-buy mechanical keyboard is made into a fool's errand because I very much like and prefer low profile keebs. So that just further underscores that to get EXACTLY what I want I will have to literally make it myself.
I am currently quite contentedly ticking away on a Logi K270 (which has that 3-key rollover issue that you described earlier in this thread, but it's not something I've ever had to worry about so it's not a hard no-sell for me).
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@dragonarchitect yeah I've looked into low-profile keyboards and there just aren't as many. it's because the mechanical keyboard hobby revolves around interchangable keyswitches and those are mostly fullsize, so the low-profile stuff gets ignored
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@foone it’s particularly annoying when it bites your password, but only sometimes. https://phpc.social/@cabbey/113071539716702034
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@cabbey nasty!
