Remember that TV show 'How It's Made'? Whenever I would feel a little under the weather, I'd sit down in front of the TV and watch the step-by-step process of making a golf ball. Good television, that. Wooting has since put together something similar for keyboard nerds: a rundown on how a Hall effect key switch is made.
Wooting CEO Calder Limmen leads the tour, following the Lekker Tikken switch through the manufacturing process. Be warned, there are some choice sound effects used throughout.
It starts with plastic injection, which is used for the top case, bottom case, and stem. The machine takes plastic pellets and injects them into a mould, with a cavity in the shape of the final plastic component.
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