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Butterfly Keyboard Mechanism Illustration - https://theengineerscafe.com/butterfly-keyboard/ https://theengineerscafe.com/butterfly-keyboard/

• weiming 7y ago
  For anyone curious to compare, an animation of a mechanical keyboard switch: https://www.cherrymx.de/en/mx-original/mx-brown.html#techSpecs https://www.cherrymx.de/en/mx-original/mx-brown.html#techSpe... Click on top of the page for other switch types.
  • brianpgordon 7y ago
    Gotta flex my (amazing) Topre keyboard, which is "mechanical" as well but works on a totally different capacitive touch mechanism: https://i.imgur.com/SnfIDbe.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SnfIDbe.jpg
  • pault 7y ago
    The deskthority wiki is by far the greatest collection of keyboard lore in the world: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Main_Page https://deskthority.net/wiki/Main_Page
  • hrktb 7y ago
    That ship has long long sailed, but it's so weird talking about the mechanical design of the different keyboard switches to call one of the keyboard a 'mechanical keyboard'
• Corrado 7y ago
  You know, I'm not opposed to the butterfly mechanism itself. I want my keys to be stable and accurate and it looks like this is better than the old scissor type. However, I would like a nice feel when typing and don't want a piece of dust to disable my keyboard. Can't the butterfly mechanism satisfy those requirements as well?