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Comment on Curiosity Killed the… Apple Keyboard by Valmir

Valmir — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:36:12 +0000

I actually managed to take mine apart after a spill got it useless. And I did it with far less damage to it.

What I did was to deep freeze it. It happens that glues in general don’t like to be frozen, and so it was quite easy to take it apart after some sub-zero love.

The top aluminum frame is far more difficult to take apart thought, as it is spot welded every two keys or so to the middle sandwich of aluminum with the circuit for the keyboard matrix. But with patience, it’s workable.

This middle sandwich I did not took apart, because I was not trying to destroy it, but to repair it, and I figured it would very likely damage the circuit matrix. As my intent was not achievable, I gave up.

Comment on Curiosity Killed the… Apple Keyboard by Karl

Karl — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:55:58 +0000

I hate this keyboard it’s apples worst so far,the keys feel dead and unresponsive and if you need to clean it,forget it,my K key got stuck,so I pulled it off and cleaned the hole and tried putting it back,it went back,but is at an angle and even less responsive than before,the old keyboards the black and white one apple used to have were far better,sure they weren’t as good looking,but they were far more tactile and easier to maintain,I could pull the keys off of them a thousands times without doing damage,not so with this one,this keyboard is the computer version of the Bic pen or razor,and very over rated and over price,shame on you Apple.

Comment on How to Flatten the Apple Keyboard. Or Not? by Hisham

Hisham — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:42:46 +0000

Sheer curiosity.

Comment on How to Flatten the Apple Keyboard. Or Not? by Josh

Josh — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:32:41 +0000

Why would anyone want to do this?

Comment on Curiosity Killed the… Apple Keyboard by User

User — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:32:07 +0000

It appears that when water gets into the keyboard, it dissolves the glue (or the dirt underneath the keys), which is what gets between the layers of contact film and shorts them out. I tried to cut the film on one side of the contact pad to peel them apart and clean out the gunk, but foolishly cut one of the traces that lead up to the pad. So the keyboard is really toast now. But, I think that knowing how the layers are made up, one can peel them apart with a thin knife and clean out the gunk with hopes of fixing the keys.

Comment on Curiosity Killed the… Apple Keyboard by Guest

Guest — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:12:45 +0000

Your post makes me quite sad, as it means I won’t be able to repair my Keyboard

At least I didn’t destroy it…

Comment on The Outrage of Air France 447 Crash by Guest

Guest — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:55:38 +0000

I think your article shows some reasonable doubt on aviation security…

Basically: You use the altimeter to calculate the vertical velocity, you use GPS to calculate the horizontal velocity, you use Pythagoras to calculate “diagonal” velocity. It really is a simple task and you will end up with that small error of GPS (which gets smaller as you travel at high speeds).

There are already personal GPS-devices out there that do this and with enough GPS-satellites in reach you can even use GPS itself as altimeter, so you would have a completely independent system to double check all your measurements.

To improve accuracy you could additionally use Russian Glonass and later European Galileo, which is especially designed to be usable at high latitudes and as an altimeter.

Even it’s not perfect, huge margins between the systems would make every pilot realize that something is wrong.

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Comment on How to Flatten the Apple Keyboard. Or Not? by Jay-Dog

Jay-Dog — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:18:21 +0000

Well, thank you so very, very much good sir. I just bought one of these keyboard with the intention of converting it into a controller for some music software. My thoughts were to: 1. pull it apart 2. paint the pieces 3. put it back together.
You saved me from destroying this poor helpless machine and so I am in a state of gratitude. This is the first time I’ve seen your blog and I would agree that it is hard to find pictures of this keyboard disassembled. The internet owes you a huge debt. As its creator, you should probably take that up with Mr. Gore. Thank you once again for this lovely post and for saving me from impetuous ruin (or at least for saving my keyboard from that).

Comment on Curiosity Killed the… Apple Keyboard by Paul

Paul — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:48:10 +0000

It’s a shame these keyboards are glued together.
I was hoping there would be a way to remove the aluminium part to paint it black. So that it could match my PC better.