has anyone ever tried to harvest energy from key presses to prolong battery life?
on that one, a little capacitor in the parenthesis keys would probably make that solar panel unnecessary.
on that one, a little capacitor in the parenthesis keys would probably make that solar panel unnecessary.
ZF Electronics used to be called Cherry Industrial, which was until a few years ago part of the same company as Cherry AG who make the famous keyboard switches.
Edit: Oddly, the product page is viewable if you enter the product ID from the tail end of the URL into the product search field.
They were just the thing to write rants on, you could truly put some feeling into your writing. Rant loud enough and you'd type holes instead of o's. Overdo that underline and it'd end up splitting the page for real.
https://eu.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ZF/AFIG-0007
> on that one, a little capacitor in the parenthesis keys would probably make that solar panel unnecessary.
... ye, you probably can get it with $20 only.
Perhaps you could have the whole keyboard floating on a pivot like a see-saw, with one of these switches beneath it at the right and left side of the pivot (say beneath s and ; keys). That way any key press off-center would have a chance of activating one of the two switches, and keys closest to the far left and right would have a greater probability of activating them. The keyboard would have a slight wobble.
You can find the spec at the manufacturer site.