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  • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    I use mechanical switches when I'm making a panel or something on a device that I don't want to break after getting pressed a bunch. Membrane switches just break a lot, and for industrial applications (ie gloves, metallic dust, operating by touch) capacitive panels can be unreliable.

      • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        The tactile response is what's useful, so for people using the panel with gloves, say I want a directional control for navigating a menu I can just throw down some arrow keys and have a lot of options for keycaps if I don't need it sealed. I try to make things relatively easy to repair so using parts which are commonly available is a plus.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    11 months ago

    My friend had a guitar pedal with an alps switch as the pedal switch. I didn't know anything about mkb back then, so I didn't appreciate it, but he did tell me that it was the same switch as the ones inside his dad's kb. I now know that it was alps.

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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    11 months ago

    Industrial limit switches have been used to sense position of things since forever, and likely keyboard switches evolved from one of their variants.