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    use of carbon fiber for auto parts

    I'm wondering about the practicality (costs aside) and reliability that stressed carbon fiber auto parts have. For example, I drive a 1991 toyota MR2. It's a mid engined sports car but suffers from too much weight in the rear. The rear cross member weights something like 80 lbs. Fashioning that...
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    what encoder do i use to build a keyboard?

    i'm actually looking into using something like this: http://www.audon.co.uk/kbe-98.html i think that's what i need... any confirmation?
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    what encoder do i use to build a keyboard?

    "You will be wasting your time and money -- the present mass-produced keyboards are CHEAP and work very well. If you want to learn, there are other, less specialized subjects more worth to attention... " it's for learning, and for a potential product i want to create. nothing about making a 10...
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    what encoder do i use to build a keyboard?

    You actually lost me with about 90% of what you said. A searh for ""Numeric end Enter" board" brings up nothing about keyboards. what i want to do is exactly is: build a keyboard for myself from the ground up to be used on my PC. It does not need fancy functions, just the basic typing keys +...
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    what encoder do i use to build a keyboard?

    I've done quite a bit of searching on the internet for things like "build a keyboard" and "keyboard encoder" but I havn't found any good pages that detail how to actually build my own keyboard from the ground up. So, my question is: How do i go about building my own keyboard? what encoder do...

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