#microswitch

[cyrusmehdipour]

#ArduinoAtmega2560 #Experiment #Tutorial #MicroSwitch #Keypad #LCD #Relay #Arduino #Automation #Manufacturing #Engineering #DIY #Electronics #Prototype #Simulation #Technology #Sequence Injection Controller #Youtube

[hasdrubal-gisco]

love buying four electrical components for 7 czk/piece and paying 80 czk for shipping

#also 7czk for a microswitch is highway robbery that shit worth the lint in my pocket

[bleedforever]

FRANKENTROLLER: NGPC + GRAVIS GP PRO, by arfink @ chipmusic.org forums

#the ngpc clicky microswitch thumbstick fucks

[akashmarketreports]

#Microswitch Market

[v-pneumatic]

ZJSHUYI Precautions for using micro switches. www.cnswitch.cn #microswitch

#youtube #Precautions for using microswitches 1.When fixing the switch body use M2 small screws on the smooth surface with a torque of 0.098N·m or les

[seat-safety-switch]

Yeah, I worked on The Machine. And, as I pried open its secret compartments and loosened its wiring harness and decrypted its memories, it worked on me also. Deep within its many hidden copses lay immense knowledge, unknown to all but those who formed it. Who built The Machine? No one knows. Everyone knows. I know. Now that The Machine works again, the person who last built it was me.

For years, I was a humble regular home-gamer mechanic. Something around the house would break. For the sake of argument, we'll use as an example the time my microwave blew up when I opened the door. One morning, it just went pop and never worked again. Well, at least until I fixed it. It turns out that the door had a little microswitch inside, and that microswitch got gummy with aerosolized food goo. Because it was gummed up, it wouldn't switch the computer off in time when I opened the door. That would be dangerous: I could get a full face shot of microwaves from the still-running magnetron. A safety interlock fired, and blew the brains out of the big fuse controlling the magnetron. It died for me. Replacing the switch, and the fuse, brought that microwave back to life. I did many such repairs. I was not prepared for this repair.

Fix after fix, I built up my confidence, and I got cockier. I'd pull broken machines out of the trash, mysterious foreign computers from another country. Some things escaped my grasp, and slipped further into oblivion. Most, though: most, I pulled back from the brink, and forced them to live again. That's when I found The Machine.

It was beautiful, intricate: thousands of parts, wedged together tighter than I had ever seen before, and a cryptic fault at the centre of it. When you cram together this much stuff, the complexity doesn't just add: it multiplies. To aid me, I looked for a guide, a factory service manual. The manufacturer laughed. The manufacturer's representative laughed. Someone who made it, who I tracked down on LinkedIn, hung up on me and refused to answer his door when I visited. Weeks later, he was gone, "dead" in a suspiciously convenient accident, a body left behind at the edge of his bleach-washed property with no identifying marks or fingerprints. I got the message: I was on my own.

This little wire just came unplugged. I guess someone must have dropped it. All better now.

#best of

[foone]

You know what I hate about modern mice? how pointlessly anti-repair they are. I have had plenty of mice break over time, and often it's just that some fluff or skin-flakes got wedged in the mouse wheel or under the buttons. You just need to open them up and clean them. Except.. where are the screws?

OH THERE THEY ARE. under the little skid-pads, which cannot be put back on once you take them off, because the adhesive has been ruined! You have to buy replacement pads, if they're available, and maybe cut them down to size, as well as clean off the residue of the previous pads.

You know how this problem could be fixed? JUST DON'T PUT THE PADS ON TOP OF THE SCREWS!

Then you'd have no problem. Easy to disassemble and clean.

But then it'd look 5% uglier because apparently people are scared of seeing screws, and also people might not just throw it out and buy a new one!

It's the terrible sort of weird planned obsolescence that happens as an almost accidental side effect of improving the product. Like, ball mice? They were designed to be disassembled. You didn't even need a screwdriver! Because you had to clean them regularly, or they'd gunk up too fast. Modern optical mice? They still get gunked up, the buttons and wheel still die eventually. They can be cleaned and repaired. But now that it's not required for all of them to be cleaned regularly, that function has been removed. they're designed to be disposable.

The same thing happened with TVs way back when. If you open up a TV from the 50s (or just look at the back, honestly, many of them were designed to be always-open), you'll find a schematic showing where all the tubes are and what models they are. Was this because the 1950s was a golden era of reparability? NO! it's because they burnt out all the time and you had to replace them! As soon as TVs got reliable enough that replacing tubes was no longer needed, the schematics became hidden behind paywalls and for authorized-service-personnel-only.

It would be only a minor change in aesthetics to make your mouse repairable/cleanable. Hell, most of the time when it's not simply fixed by cleaning it, it's because one of these broke:

This is an Omron D2FC-F-7N microswitch, used in a bunch of mice. It's designed to last about a million clicks. With a soldering iron and some solder (like 25$ on amazon) you can trivially replace it. New switches cost between like 10 cents and 2 dollars, depending where you buy it and how many you want. A couple bucks of parts and half an hour's worth of work, you can repair a 40$ mouse that's "died".

But they make it unnecessarily hard with the slide-pads being unreplacable. You have to find ones that match, you have to carefully clean off the old residue with IPA, or the new ones you just bought will fall off. All to make it look SLIGHTLY better (how often are you looking at the aesthetics of the bottom of your mouse, exactly? (no furries are allowed to answer this question!)) and maybe, just maybe, to push it over into "not worth it". You could do all that, but you have to buy new switches, new slide-pads/mouse-feet (SHUT UP FURRIES), and can you remember where your solder even is? you last used it when you were trying to fix that keyboard...

Basically one thing that is maddening to anyone with the very basics of electronic knowledge (seriously: the amount of skill you need for this is the kind you can get in less than an hour from watching a youtube tutorial) that we're surrounded by all this electrical nonsense that will break and have to be thrown out, but is mostly breaking in ways that could be fixed in a very short amount of time with relatively little work.

It's infuriating to go on amazon to buy another damn mouse and it pop up "hey you last bought this in 2021, you fool" and you're like I KNOW, IT SHOULD STILL BE WORKING TODAY!

I have computer parts from the 80s in my room right now that are still working when stuff made in the last 5 years is already dying! There's no reason it should be this way. It's an endless waste of time and money and resources and it's just to make some logitech or whoever executives slightly richer.

It's deeply bullshit. The modern day is going to be identifiable as the geological layer where most of the trash was generated. We're living in the middle of the quisquiliarumferous period: the layer of garbage.

#electronics #right to repair #planned obsolescence #ranting #I'm not actually mad at furries #it's a joke #I am a furry

[noellevanious]

You keep talking about gamer fingers, but what is it? Like carpal tunnel syndrome or joystick?

Gamerfingers are basically a fightstick controller button that uses keyboard microswitches!

[stevebattle]

MicroMouse Mappy kit (1984) by Namcot, the Japanese consumer game division of Namco. "Namco, which is famous for its popular video game called Pacman, has now released a hobby/educational computer-based robot called MicroMouse Mappy Kit." The kit contains all the components needed to construct the MicroMouse device, including the chassis with two drive wheels and ball casters. It's based on the Z80 CPU with 2K of RAM, upgradable to 8K. Sensors include an array of infrared reflectance sensors aimed downwards at the maze walls, and two microswitches mounted at the front to detect contact with the goal.

#cybernetics #robot #maze solvers #namco #1984

[taperwolf]

Our aging but still powerful and reliable microwave oven suddenly has the interesting quirk that when you open the door, the turntable inside starts rotating. It runs as normal when operating, and the turntable doesn't turn when the door is closed, so it's not an active problem, but it's very disconcerting.

Fortunately, according to online sources this is caused by one of the door switches failing, so it's entirely a problem I'll be able to fix myself. I may actually have a replacement microswitch in my parts bins, even. I'll try to take the thing apart in the morning so I can run to the local electronics shop while they're open on Saturday if I don't have the exact part on hand.

#diy

[electronics-components]

This 4x4 keypad module has a total 16 different  push button keys and comes in 4x4 matrix. The keypad comes in stripped form connectors which can directly be attached to the respective microcontroller development board.

4x4 keypad Specifications:

4 x 4 Matrix Microswitch Push Button Keypad

8 pin configuration

Operation Temperature: -20 to +80 centigrade

A Female 10-pin berg strip connector is required for interfacing it with your microcontroller circuits.

[straydogged]

can the microswitches pls stop

#I am beginning to feel nauseous

[andmaybegayer]

Welp the switch fix on the gaming mouse is already starting to feel sticky and crunchy so I guess that's that, retensioning a microswitch is a very hit-and-miss operation.

I could crack it open AGAIN and properly replace the switches, but I've already damaged the skates once and fresh skates have to be imported. Full repairs including switches, new grip pads for the sides and fresh skates for the bottom come to over half the price of a high end wireless replacement, which is a steep price just to get a mouse that isn't even supported by the manufacturer anymore. Razer's software sucked ass when it was maintained.

Ordered a Glorious Model O Wireless instead. Goodbye, Razer Deathadder 2013, you got a good nine year run even if your right click hasn't worked properly for five of those.

#computer stuff

[oct2pus]

I've been working on a game controller. I exported the .step files for the pcb from kicad and converted that into a .stl and I'm using that for a test fit. I have two full sized arcade joystick microswitches for the shoulder buttons and I'm using kailh choc keyboard switches for the dpad and face buttons.

it's unlikely I'll keep you all up to date on all the changes, but if you're interested you can check out my mastodon account!

#pcb #gaming #3dprinting #maker #kicad #i'll probably do an update when i finalize the shell when i order PCBs and when i have one working

[specksizedgoddess]

urgh i spent an hour reassembling a microswitch by hand, only to break the pads underneath. i wish i had a tiny helper for this stuff

ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY NOOO

... do you um. do you want a tiny helper? cause I might know a gal who would be more then happy to help out with the more intricate bits :3

#thanks for the ask!

[emissaryfromhellspiderman]

need USPS to deliver my sanwa microswitch pcb today or im gonna kill myself