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Once keyboards existed only on typewriters. The 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.
Now our keyboards have many functions. We use them to put 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 come first. Dome switch keyboards use of a membrane and a mechanical keyboard. Underneath a plastic dome, or bubble, two circuit board traces are brought together.
The top of the bubble gets a coating of conductive material. Then, when you press the key, it collapses the dome. The collapsed dome shorts out the two circuit traces and completes a connection that tells the keyboard to enter the character. To help with conducting, the 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.
The second 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 is the mechanical switch keyboard; a keyboard that 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.
Fourth in keyboard trends are the Hall Effect keyboards. These keyboards 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.
Hall Effect keyboards are highly reliable and can take on millions of keystrokes before reaching failure.
The fifth trend in this technology is the membrane keyboard. Generally flat they are most often seen on machines such as microwave ovens, photocopiers, and car lock keypads. Usually 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.
Keyboards have progressed since typewriters were all one saw in offices. They will continue to advance as long as we need durability, reliability, and variation in function.
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