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Pretty cool stuff for a hobbyist, but aren't keyboard switches essentially the last product one would want to 3d print en masse? Injection molding hundreds of thousands of them is an extremely efficient method of manufacturing and it gave us a huge choice of great switches that cost ~$1 a pop, don't require soldering for replacement and last a very long time.

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Indeed. Moreover the smoothness, consistency and tolerance of the switches is a fundamental part of the hobby nowadays.

But pretty cool stuff in the line “because we can”.

The tolerance must be a nightmare

This guy sent me the STLs for these and I tried printing them. I only have an Ender 3 and am a very light hobbyist but I calibrated for hours and got some really nice prints of them but still couldn't get it to be remotely working/smooth.

> but aren't keyboard switches essentially the last product one would want to 3d print en masse?

Yes. Or at least use resin. To me it's the difference between craft and engineering; nobody would consider hand-crafting (or printing) switches when they can source high quality parts for cents.

3d printed cases aren't that special. There are a lot of hobbyist making those.

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