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Mendel Keyboard

Posted by Soralin

Soralin

Mendel Keyboard
February 26, 2009 06:00AM

Registered: 15 years ago
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With v2.0 Mendel planned to be able to print conductive material, wouldn't it be possible to print out nearly everything necessary for a complete working keyboard? You would have to get a microcontroller and a usb cable or such, but the rest of the actual keyboard itself could be printed out. Although a couple of different types of plastic, or at least one that's flexible enough might be required.

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Forrest Higgs

Re: Mendel Keyboard
February 26, 2009 08:32AM

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"Planned" is the same thing as "printing". spinning smiley sticking its tongue out

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raldrich

Re: Mendel Keyboard
June 24, 2011 02:19PM

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Watching "How It's Made" the other day, I saw that they were making the circuitry for a membrane keyboard by silk-screening conductive paint onto a plastic sheet.

It seems to me that attaching a conductive ink pen to a mendel, and using it to draw the circuit would be a pretty easy analog to silk-screen.

The difficult part would be placing and covering the membrane switches.