I have done a caveman mod of my Nanonote keyboard to show that there are some people who would like something other than the standard keyboard option. Looking back, I should have done the following:
use "exacto" knife to slice rubber membrane from behind at the intersections. scrape key off leaving border intact this would make for a key that can be inserted and removed from behind the metal plate, but would hold fast once assembled hopefully I am clear enough, now lets see what a mess I ended up making... http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Keys01.jpg http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Keys02.jpg http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Keys03.jpg http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Keys04.jpg http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Keys05.jpg http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Keys06.jpg First I popped the keys out, for the most part they came out cleanly, but some ripped nastily. Then I rearranged the keys but saw that they did not fit snug into place. I arranged them, carefully flipped them over, and applied fabric paint as adhesive. Then I smeared/blotted the paint so it would not be so thick as to hinder key pressing. Then I just replaced the piece. Note that there is some oozed paint visible which I have not removed and also that this hack/mod only deals with HARDWARE, unfortunately Colemak layout is not set up yet... The glue may not have been neccessary if I used the mentioned method in the beginning. Thank you for reading and long live Nanonote and Qi improvement, no matter how small we are!
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