Wafer-thin keyboard

After taking an ancient "Microsoft Internet Keyboard" apart, turns out it's a rather simple mod to convert it to a wafer-thin, touch sensitive, transparent beast. Little bit of duck tape, and it's perfect :).

Step-by-step:
1. Remove the screws from the back of the keyboard.
2. Take the back off, and remove any more screws you see.
3. Peel the three plastic layers out.
4. Leaving them stacked in the order they are, put some tape at the edges to make sure they don't slide.
5. Attatch the board at the top with ducktape/anything (TIGHTLY), making sure EVERY contact is touching. (you may have to cut some of the plastic)
6. Enjoy your new wafer-thin, touch-sensitive keyboard :).

How it works:
There are 3 plastic layers. Two, on top and bottom, have the contacts that touch each other to form a keypress. The middle one has holes where the keys were, so if you leave the keyboard flat, the contacts are a quarter of a millimeter away from each other, held there by the middle layer. However, press any spot, and the contacts touch, the equivalent of a keypress.

Future:
-Backlit?
-LABELED keys.
- Wafer thin circuit-thing at the top.
-WIRELESS?
-Etc.

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items are from 12 Aug 2006.