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That was literally why the infamous hall effect keyboard switches of Honeywell were designed. Keyboard were required to be very robust, and switches that requir
by p_l 4y ago
That was literally why the infamous hall effect keyboard switches of Honeywell were designed. Keyboard were required to be very robust, and switches that required direct interaction were found lacking in reliability.
Thus no-touch, special integrated circuit per key, hall effect keyboards were born before the advent of cheapness and higher reliabilty of mechanical switches drove them out due to price difference.
- ako 4y agoThere are still modern keyboards using Hall effect switches, e.g., https://wooting.io/lekker https://wooting.io/lekker
- retSava 4y agoWhy are they infamous? It seems from your post they were more reliable, even if they were more expensive.
- p_l 4y agoIf you spend some time in keyboard aficionado circles, you will find a lot of talk about them, especially in relation to (similarly infamous) Knight, Space Cadet, and other Lisp Machine keyboards. Thus "infamous". The fact that they required special IC per key only makes them even more "wild" :)