Mechanical keyboards

Technology

7 rabbit holes · 6 people exploring

Common starting questions

• What does rapid trigger actually do?

Rabbit holes

1. the IBM Model M still works after 40 years

   Buckling springs, a steel backplate, weighs as much as a small dumbbell. People still pull them out of e-waste and they work fine.

   Marco Bianchi · 4 sources

2. going down the split keyboard hole

   Wrist pain → split keyboards → column stagger → home row mods → I now own a soldering iron. Classic.

   Jae-won Park · 5 sources

3. hall effect keyboards and rapid trigger

   Ludovica Ferri · 5 sources

4. why the enter key is a different shape in the UK

   Arjun Pillai · 4 sources

5. why keycaps cost $150

   Double-shot molding, tooling costs, and group buys with small runs. You pay up front and wait a year. The hobby has its own economics.

   Ravi Subramanian · 3 sources

6. keyboards have a surprising amount of input latency

   Dan Luu measured a bunch of keyboards and a lot of expensive 'gaming' boards were slower than cheap ones. Then his computer-latency post: an Apple IIe beat modern machines on keypress-to-screen.

   Marco Bianchi · 4 sources

7. QWERTY wasn't designed to slow typists down

   Chidi Eze · 5 sources