#membranekeyboards — Public Fediverse posts

I love mechanical keyboards, but I find the idea that membranes/rubber domes are inherently bad to be a bit silly. There are a lot of truly awful keyboards and even mechanical switches out there imo, but those mostly come in the form of bottom of the barrel crap that gets bundled with PC or the cheapeat of cheap mechanicals you can find for like 20 dollars.

I''m currently typing on an ergonomic Microsoft Natural Elite keyboard from the 90s and this thing feels and sounds great to me despite being a membrane. It's no topre or buckling spring, but it feels a small step below my silent tactile switches I use in my modded TKL board....

Anyway, taste is subjective and snobbery is bad....what keyboards are y'all using out there? #keyboards #computing #hardware #retrohardware #mechanicalkeyboards #membranekeyboards

Theoretically you could make an adapter with a tiny circuit board for mechanical keyboard switches so they work to close the circuit on a membrane keyboard circuit then hot glue it onto the board so you don't even need solder, right? Only problem would be keyboards that use a flexible plastic that would make hot gluing the adapters and switches risky.

#keyboard #MechanicalKeyboard #MembraneKeyboards #HotGlue #soldering #BadEngineeringIdeas