ya'know,
come to think of it, i dont even need a mold machined, i just need some sort of 'inserts' i can glue or tape down or something to make test panels..
ive got this idea that i can use some sort of flexible glue and tin or copper foil, glued into the 'top' of a 'pushbutton' molded into plastic.. when pressed it would hit a PCB below...
illustrations will follow.. i have been so busy.. incidently, i tried putting some pushbuttons under a piece of thin plastic with an inkjet printed transparency on top.. it was too difficult to press and the buttons had to be far apart, and it took alot of effort to make... an ideal assembly would be 2 or 3 layers... pcb, buttons of some kind, printed panel.. comercial makers use these weird metal things, but then i need to be able to mold an allready printed piece of plastic again..
Ugh. I am sure my long-windedness will kill my own thread. |