At its most basic, building a custom keyboard involves buying a case, printed circuit board (PCB), plate, mechanical switches and keycaps, and then assembling all those parts together to make ...

With a few exposed screws removed, you can get to the keyboard’s internal circuit board, foam layers, and the bottom of the case, which also holds a replaceable weighted piece. The one in the ...

Most people’s relationship with technology is distant or obscured. The average consumer does not have direct control over their tech — it is usually closed off to them, a little box given to ...

I’m a mechanical keyboard nut. You might have guessed that, given how I do most of the keyboard reviews around here, how I built a custom one-handed keyboard, or spent hours traveling to New ...

closing a circuit and sending a signal to the keyboard’s printed circuit board, or PCB. (Check out this article from Kinetic Labs for an overview of the basics of mechanical keyboard PCBs).

I might just finish it now The whole ginormous structure works through a standard keyboard circuit board, which sits under the edifice with each key activating a lever switch that is wired-up to it.

Customizable, Not Complicated The keyboard itself is assembled in about the simplest way possible: Start with a printed circuit board (PCB), solder on some low-profile switches, connect that to a ...

[Jason Allemann] has just made it easier to do keyboard hacks using LEGO by building one for a circuit board with mechanical Cherry MX key switches. That involved designing parts to connect LEGO ...

It’s a fairly painless process to disassemble the keyboard, though you’ll need to be careful about the small ribbon cable that connects the main circuit board to the smaller board that houses ...

J.Viewz is using a cool little circuit board called the MaKey MaKey (pronounced may-kee may-kee) that allows you to hook almost anything up to a keyboard. The concept is simple. All you need to do ...

Whether you have full use of your hands or not, a foot-operated keyboard is a great addition ... 3D print a new one so they could include circuit board mounting pillars and a bit of wire management.

Most QWERTY computer keyboards use a single rubber-like membrane underneath the keys that makes contact with a circuit board when the key is fully depressed. Also called a "dome switch keyboard ...