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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Gregreplied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by [email protected]
@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.
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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
