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In the past keyboards existed only as typewriters. Their keys worked in a fairly straightforward manner: the user pressed the key, the key forced a 'stamp' to press the letter onto the paper through an ink ribbon.
Nowadays our keyboards have many functions and uses. We use them to input information into computers, word processors, microwave ovens, car lock codes, and home furnaces just to name a few.
Along with advancements in technology, keyboards have advanced to supply the proper combination of durability and practicality. Though there are many trends five big ones stand out in functionality.
Dome switch keyboards employ a membrane and a mechanical keyboard. Beneath a plastic dome two circuit board traces are brought together.
The surface of the bubble is given a coat of conductive material. As you press the key, it crushes the dome and shorts out the two circuit traces completing a connection that tells the keyboard that you have entered a character. Tthe pattern on the PC board is usually gold plated.
The dome switch keyboard is a very common solution in mass marketed keyboards. It is considered to be nice and quiet, but there are those who complain that it feels 'mushy' compared to some other key tendencies. The dome switches are also known as direct switch keys.
Another trend in keyboards is the capacitive keyboard. Keyboards that are capacitive are made so that stroking a key changes the capacitance of a pattern that gets printed on a PC board. This change in capacitance allows a pulse or train of pulses to be sensed.
The third big trend in keyboard technology is the mechanical switch keyboard. This type of keyboard actually uses real switches under each key. Depending largely on the way the keyboard is built, they have varying responses and travels. Because it gets expensive to pace a switch at each key position, mechanical switch keyboards have fallen a bit out of public favor. Though sometimes considered to be loud and noisy, they are some of the most reliable keyboards.
The fourth in type of current keyboard trends are the Hall Effect keyboards who get their name from the use of magnets and the Hall Effect (a potential difference on opposite sides of a thin sheet of conducting material in the form of an element through which an electric current is flowing) instead of actual switches. When the user presses a key, a magnet is moved; this is detected by a hall-effect sensor.
They are most often used for applications where ultra-high reliability is crucial, such as aircraft cockpits and nuclear power plants.
A fifth trend in keyboard technology is known as the membrane keyboard. A type of keyboard that is generally flat. Most often seen on appliances and machines like microwave ovens, photocopiers, and car lock keypads. Commonly the design is made up of three layers. The top layer, which is the one the user touches, has the printing on the front, while the back has conductive stripes printed on it.
The spacer layer holds the front and back layers apart so they cannot make electrical contact. The third or back layer has conductive stripes printed on it perpendicular to the ones on the front layer. These perpendicular stripes form a grid. When the button is pushed, the finger pushes the front layer through the spacer layer to close a circuit at one of the grid intersections. This closed circuit tells the computer that a particular button as been pressed.
The keyboards has come a long way since the day of the typewriters and they will continue to improve as long as a need for durability, reliability, and variation in function continue.
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