The first prototype: part 3

The polymer-clay experiment was less than successful. The material is too soft and strengthening it with chicken wire is unpractical. But more importantly, the whole idea appeared flawed, as it was very hard to type with this prototype. No worries Continue reading The first prototype: part 3

The first prototype: part 1

The supplies for the first prototype are in. In the picture you see 30 microswitches, keycaps, wire, a crimptool, crimp terminals, the teensy microcontroller and a few 3-colored LEDs. Unfortunately the keycaps did not fit on the microswitches. The red Continue reading The first prototype: part 1

Micro switches

We were planning on using Saia-Burgess G3 series microswitches for our first prototype. Unfortunately these switches have now been declared ‘end of line’, so we started searching for switches in similar actuation force- and price-ranges. Honeywell’s SM line has extremely Continue reading Micro switches

Launch of Keys4all

Today Keys4all officially launched! Plans for the first prototype are finished and the driver software is ready to be tested. Al that remains is the actual building of the prototype. We need some help with that as we don’t have Continue reading Launch of Keys4all