Why not put a standard keyboard into a plexiglass box with an open side
towards the operator?
You can still see the keys if needed if you make it out of clear
plexi. A sheet of 1/4" plexi, a table saw, and some plexi glue is all
you need.
When it gets scratched up, make another one, or buff it out.
Dave
On 8/2/2018 11:56 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 02 August 2018 10:19:14 Przemek Klosowski wrote:
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 5:12 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net>
wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 13:50:46 Przemek Klosowski wrote:
How about $12.50? Here's a purportedly waterproof, lit up plastic
job at Banggood
https://www.banggood.com/JiZZ-GX16-Waterproof-LED-Backlight-Mechan
ical
-Handfeel-Gaming-Keyboard-p-976896.html?utm_design=147&utm_source=
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Looks good, but those tapered side keys are instant jam from flying
swarf. The square sided keys of a logitech K360 aren't proof from
swarf jams, but do reduce them to a tolerable level, but they've
disappeared from the supply chain now. I've also killed a couple of
them with an errant coffee cup. I wonder if they have a keyboard
cover for this one? It might even work, as long as the cord would
reach the machine.
so I haven't used this one, but they do show a picture of it partly
submerged in water, so I think it has a continuous membrane all around
the unit.
Waterproofness is a far lessor priority than being immune to a bit of
swarf following the key down, and then wedgeing it down because the side
of the key is tapered, which means the gap between the key and the mask
widens. I have some membrane covers custom made for the k360, but found
the membrane would buckle and hold the key down too. So that experiment
only lasted about an hour. Some Acer computers came with a keyboard
that had no mask, keyswitch stems was all that penetrated the top
molding, but they are monster sized, and have no place to grab them and
pick them up w/o inadvertently pressing some "media" key that lcnc
didn't like around the edges. Great keyboard, if only it was available
without all that gingerbread. Swarf, if anything, might prevent a key
from being pressed, but the air hose easily cleared any such problems.
But 130+ keys? 20 around the edges? My mildest expletive is Nuh-huh.
Thanks Przemek K.
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