类型: IC
作者: _Entropy
发布时间: 2017-07-25
00:24:46
更新时间: 2017-07-25 00:27:26
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=90745.0
Hey, GH.
For a while I’ve been thinking of how you
would be able to fit an Alps metal leaf in a Cherry housing,
as I love the feel of Alps, but the compatibility of Cherry
switches. But, I never got around to doing anything with
that idea because I thought that it would be “too difficult”
and “nobody would care.”
On Saturday, I went to the
Seattle Mechanical Keyboards meetup. I listened to evangs’
talk about how he designed the MiniVan layout, and how
successful it has become. This got me thinking a bit. Maybe
it /wasn’t/ impossible. But, I doubted it would be
worth the effort and I still thought people wouldn’t care
enough.
During the convention, I saw many people with
Alps boards, or people talking to each other about how much
they liked Alps switches. I even saw someone with a Rama
M65-A with modded zealios with 35g springs! These had the
effect of the Alps tactile leaf, which allowed the actuation
force to feel higher than the force post-actuation. Well,
maybe people did care.
After the meetup, I was talking
with manofinterests, and he invited me to go to Korean BBQ
after the meetup. I sat next to Evan, and a couple of other
people(don’t remember names well, sorry!). We were talking
about involvement in the community, and at some point
someone said “If you have an idea, just put it out there and
see where it goes.” This statement is really what got me to
follow through with this idea, so thanks a ton to both
manofinterests and evangs for the inspiration and the
opportunity to hear that line.
ChALPS is a cherry housing with an Alps-like leaf spring for
tactility. It is supposed to be 100% drop in compatible with
Cherry keycaps, plates, PCBs, and LEDs. It is based on a
Cherry linear switch, as I do not want the slider itself to
create tacility, but the leaf spring to do so. The leaf
spring will likely look something like the ones from the
Tai-Hao APC switches. It will be held in place by the bottom
housing, and it will sit in small “rails.” The height of
these “rails” will determine whether the switch is tactile
or clicky. If the rails are full height, the leaf will not
bend, and it will remain tactile. If the rails are half or
less height, the leaf spring will bend forwards and snap
back in the same way that the Alps clicky switches do.
As
of right now, I have a prototype(a pretty bad/scratchy one)
that feels surprisingly like an Alps tactile switch with a
lighter spring. I will attach a link to a google folder at
the end of this post which has pictures of the prototype
switch, some basic drawings of what I think it will look
like, and a video of the switch in action.
This post is
designed to gauge interest. If I have enough interest, I
will make more prototypes and go from there. What I would
like from this post is constructive criticism, who’s really
interested, and what spring weights you would want. I am
planning on making a Light, Medium, and Heavy for both
clicky and tactile switches.
Thanks a ton for reading
this post and spending your valuable time reading my
ramblings.
http://www.strawpoll.me/13526541
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B1RvGbUCnm3GZUhueFdEYXBJZk0