My surface mount switches have arrived.

[Doggy Styles]

http://www.rapidonline.com/Electroni...ches/71590/kw/

HTH.

I discovered some of the leaded ones in the stores last week.

My predeceased predecessor must have ordered a shedload in.

Perhaps he was building his own keyboard to save money.

Anyway, thanks. Are you going to use these for your "Launch Missile" buttons?

[Doggy Styles]

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/s...duct&R=0512960

Ah yes, that gives them the status they deserve.

As an aside, when I was a mere apprentice learning all this stuff, I spent most of my first year at college and the firm's training centre not really grasping what transistors were for. We were being taught the physics principles first - NP junctions, leakage currents, amplification, rise times, decaying oscillations, all that stuff.

It wasn't until some wizened engineer on my first laboratory placement said "Transistors? They're just switches" that the penny dropped.

[chef]

A slight bijou problemette has appeared re the foot print.

It's just great & spaced ideally.

Until you put the pretty coloured buttons on the switches.

I just knew it was going far too well.

so you'll not be leaving this rock just yet then?

[Doggy Styles]

A slight bijou problemette has appeared re the foot print.

It's just great & spaced ideally.

Until you put the pretty coloured buttons on the switches.

I just knew it was going far too well.

How about filing down the sides of the buttons?

Or will that mean you can't fit all of "Yobba Ray" on them?