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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@adaliabooks that's normal if you have a badly designed keyboard, yes.
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this is merely a fundamental problem with making keyboard matrixes and we've understood how to fix it basically since the first day we started making keyboard matrixes
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diodes are about a cent each in bulk.
adding them to a keyboard increases the cost by about a dollar. it's required for them to work correctly, but apparently there's a large market for 1$ cheaper but broken keyboards -
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@foone aside, everything I wanted / needed to know about keyboard matrices, ghosting and blocking, etc. I learned from Tiger-Heli's website on Mameworld from 2003: https://www.mameworld.info/net/emuadvice/keyhack2.html
THIS is a goddamn good website. they sure don't make em like this any more
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I grabbed my nearest Bad Keyboard. I paid 2$ for this keyboard and another 9.95$ for the stickers.
But it lets me type MY and my built in one can't.
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Well, not much I can do about it as it's attached to my laptop. Can't say I've ever noticed any issues when gaming, but then I do mostly use a controller for faster paced games anyway.
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@adaliabooks for me it's not gaming, I never notice the problem there, it's just typing. I often want to type things like "MY GOD!" but half the time on this keyboard, it comes out as "M GOD!"
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@foone can’t decide if I’m annoyed by shitty keyboard rollover or whether it’s my own fault for sloppy typing.
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@ozeng bah. compuers are built for humans. if humans type sloppy, the computer should (and can) handle it
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@foone MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYyyyyyy
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@mcc dangerous how so? are you using my prototype thermite keyboard?
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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.
