{"id":4820,"date":"2015-01-30T12:13:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T20:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2021-06-17T08:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:23:40","slug":"making-membrane-keypads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/making-membrane-keypads\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Membrane Keypads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen those membrane keypads that are often on kids&#8217; toys?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4953\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/membrane-keypad-hackaday-paul-bleisch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4953 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/membrane-keypad-hackaday-paul-bleisch-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"membrane-keypad-hackaday-paul-bleisch\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/membrane-keypad-hackaday-paul-bleisch-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/membrane-keypad-hackaday-paul-bleisch-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/membrane-keypad-hackaday-paul-bleisch-225x169.jpg 225w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/membrane-keypad-hackaday-paul-bleisch-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/membrane-keypad-hackaday-paul-bleisch-1200x900-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making the membrane keypad. Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/paulbleisch.com\/blog\/\">Paul Bleisch<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We found <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2015\/01\/25\/making-membrane-keypads-from-scratch\/\">a great tutorial on Hackaday<\/a>\u00a0with a lot of great details on how to make your own! It involves a microcontroller (like the chipKIT uC32), copper tape, and just a couple other components! Check <a href=\"http:\/\/paulbleisch.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/19\/custom-arduino-membrane-keypad\/\">it out now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-4820 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='4820' data-nonce='b99b93a390' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-4820 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-4820 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='4820' data-nonce='b99b93a390' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-4820 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-4820 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen those membrane keypads that are often on kids&#8217; toys? Have you ever wanted to make your own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1563],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4464],"class_list":["post-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/membrane-keypad-hackaday-paul-bleisch.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4464,"user_id":7,"is_guest":0,"slug":"amber_mear","display_name":"Amber Mear","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d0fc56ab4035f79884675bde2a948e84c1d14dd33b730b4c142dde6f1a962395?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}