I’m genuinely just confused what the hype is with HHKB. It sounds just like a membrane but for 250 dollars. What the hell is the hype about?

  • BigBadBlowfish@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    Topre are decidedly not membrane keyboards.

    They are rubber dome keyboards, but they don’t use a membrane to detect key-presses like standard rubber dome boards. They instead use a PCB in combination with a conical springs housed within the rubber domes. Key-presses are detected by measuring the change in capacitance caused by the compression of the spring.

    I understand what you mean, though. Most of the time, “membrane” and “rubber dome” are used interchangeably to refer to cheap, mass produced keyboards. They are not necessarily related, though.

    A keyboard can be one, and not the other, as with Topre, which is a Rubber Dome board, but not a membrane board. Then you have the legendary IBM Model M, which is not a rubber dome but is actually a membrane keyboard.