It's a "qwerty" keyboard, so what I want's a really good feel and good lifetime; So many designs have such different "feel". A tactile switch group would work, but be somewhat pricey ($20 or so for switches alone.) I'm thinking Mark Russell McMahon wrote: > > My talking communicators use a membrane keyboard of my design which I have > had made for me. The keys are about 20mm square BUT each consists of an 11 x > 11 array of "keylets" which are electrically joined. This keyboard uses "ink > separator" technology to hold the membrane layers apart. The conductive part > is a series of horizontal and vertical stripes at right angles to each > other. A series of ink dots at the interstices of the x/y grid keeps them > apart. IF your design can tolerate a custom keyboard this may be an > acceptable way to go. The ink for the separators is a special one intended > for this express purpose (from Canada I believe). > > Russell McMahon > _____________________________ > > >From other worlds - www.easttimor.com > www.sudan.com > > What can one man* do? > Help the hungry at no cost to yourself! > at http://www.thehungersite.com/ > > (* - or woman, child or internet enabled intelligent entity :-)) > > From: Mark Willis > > >Hi, all; I'm looking for some really small switches for a tiny > >keyboard. > > > >Want to find some that're under 4mm square or so. SMD would be great, > >for this. 2mm would be unbelievably great Something like "tactile > >switches", as they're called. I'm starting to think I'll be doing > >carbon conductive switches for this thing... > > > >I figure a nice SMD PIC on there would do for a keyboard monitor, if I > >can find the switches. Otherwise I'll have to make some cobbled > >together nightmare with stacked layers of switches and push-rods, ACK! > > > >I'm thinking of a way to use those 3mmx6xx rectangular switches with > >pushrods if I have to, but other options would be far better. -- I re-ship for small US & overseas businesses, world-wide. (For private individuals at cost; ask.)