Broken Button

The sound of the typewriter is a magnificent sound… each keystroke is like a note. What stories are hidden inside those voices waiting to be discovered. Those voices disappeared in time and the stories became silent. Of course, someone would say stop to this silence.

Mechanical keyboards have become the cornerstone of our lives. Some preferred it for gaming, with some just because it sounded good, but the main reason was because they were solid. There are no broken keys in mechanical keyboards or broken keys are very rare. That's why their voices never shut up.

It is a type of physical keyboard with a mechanism equipped with a metal spring, called a switch, under each key. Hobbyists interested in mechanical keyboards often make continuous improvements to the feel, sound and look of these keyboards. Here is the perfect harmony of plastic and metal.

Each key on the keypad is assigned two codes (Hex code). Pressing the key triggers the generate code. The end code is triggered when the key is released. Character assignments are reserved in code pages. They drop a specific character corresponding to each keycode. The KEYB command simply loads a table used to assign an appropriate character for each code sent from the keyboard. It seems like an easy task to us as it performs this process in a very fast time. However, it has a complex process as described above.

It can be classified in two ways as Q Keyboard and F Keyboard (Turkish Typewriter Keyboard). Q Turkish keypad 91 F Turkish keypad 91 Numbers on the keypad, Locks (Caps Lock: When pressed once, it prints all capital letters. When pressed for the second time, it writes lower case letters, Num Lock: Enables or disables the Numeric field on the right of the keyboard, Scroll Lock) , Special Keys (Alt, Shift, Control, Alt Gr). The keypad is the most important input device of the system in terms of giving commands to the string (system) and entering data. 101/102 key classic and 104 key win keypad are standard. The other end of the keypad cable, whose plugs have DIN or USB connections, can be inside the keyboard case or in the form of a plug. There are keyboard sets with wired or wireless control. The standard layout is QWERTY.

A wooden or metal keyboard wouldn't be very nice. Owning a vehicle that touches life or manages our business thanks to plastic is not the first time. As in many fields, plastic offers us practical and alternative solutions in the computer world. Now, someone will ask what will happen to unused keyboards. Recycling first starts within ourselves. Changing the keyboard just because a key is broken is a choice many people make. However, replacing the broken key with a new one is the easiest to recycle. Industrial recycling of a product is not just recycling it as a raw material. It is invaluable to reuse a product in any way and to change the button with the simplest method.