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It would. I think a common option is to use magnets and hall effect sensors. If you use an analogue hall sensor, you can even make an "analogue" switch that can
by jstanley 6y ago
It would. I think a common option is to use magnets and hall effect sensors. If you use an analogue hall sensor, you can even make an "analogue" switch that can have a different effect if you push it just a little bit compared to pressing it the whole way down.
Neither of these satisfy me, because in my eyes if you're using an off-the-shelf sensor of some kind, you're not really making a switch, you're just putting a little mechanism around another type of switch. Making the contacts out of cheaply-available material is important to me, although it's hard to really articulate why.
I'm trying to do this from as close to "first principles" as possible.
- eknkc 6y agoWould it be hard to make a buckling spring switch? You’d need to use a pre made spring but that does not feel like cheating :). Those switches have a fantastic feedback and sound.
- outworlder 6y agoWe need to stop at some point though. Do we need to make our own wires? That's surprisingly difficult to achieve.
- nkrisc 6y agoConsidering it's a personal project, one can choose where to stop. Sounds like they've chosen to draw the line at making their own switch mechanism.