One boutique keyboard maker spent years engineering the ultimate stabilizer by 'recklessly training a personal cash bazooka on the question'

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Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in 1981, with the love affair starting on a Sinclair ZX81 in kit form and a book on ZX Basic. He ended up becoming a physics and IT teacher, but by the late 1990s decided it was time to cut his teeth writing for a long defunct UK tech site.

In search of typing utopia, one designer has gone to extraordinary lengths to have the perfect keyboard under their fingers. After five years of hard work and project expenses well into the six-figure region, the

You can see what a typical stabilizer arrangement looks like in the images below. To ensure something like a space bar moves up and down uniformly, no matter where you press on it, the switches underneath the bar are connected via a short rod. This bar rattles against the various parts of the switches, creating an unpleasant sound, plus the entire design itself is quite noisy., and it's a long and very detailed description of it all.

The solution to all of this is heroically complex, with at least 21 separate parts, with each switch housing containing 10 apiece. Assembling just one of those houses takes around 30 minutes. But then again, if there's one thing I've learned about mechanical keyboard fans is that they're willing to invest enormous sums of time, effort, and money into having the perfect platform with which to work and game. And if that means waiting even longer or paying even more to have the ultimate clack, then that's exactly what they'll do.

 

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