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Wooting Two HE - A Standard to Measure Keyboards By?

This review was written on the Wooting Two HE. Wooting came practically out of nowhere in <2017> with their Kickstarter campaign. The goal was simple; build an analog keyboard. Some of you may ask why such a device is necessary. Keyboards have long been a standardized digital input device, which was done with several types of switches:  Classic mechanical switches Rubber dome switches like Topre Hall effect switches which used magnets Optoelectric switches Basically, the idea was to trigger a keypress and give some feedback as to what happened. Many designs came about, but none were analog, at least not in a sense of outputting and being considered analog. Why is that? Well to start off with, the classic Cherry MX style mechanical switch is a 4.0 mm travel switch, meaning the total travel you can press the switch for is 4.0 millimeters.  The actuation distance - or the distance where the switch actually triggers the input, varies. Gamers prefer a shorter actuation, so Ch...
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