Adam Savage’s "Tested" features Norbauer and RD8
Norbauer and Co. on their quest to make the World's Best Mechanical Keyboard is based on RD8 technology. Watch the YouTube video that goes behind the scenes and in depth with the mechanical details that enable world class performance.
See the full video of the keyboard test
An RD8 supported device tested in detail by world-known TV-host
Adam Savage, former co-host in the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters and Unchained Reaction, has tested the Norbauer Senica keyboard - also called the World's Best Keyboard. RD8 played a key role in the mechnical development!
The Adam Savage "Tested" video touches upon key mechanical topics:
· Design drivers / first principles – how we ended up with pin joints
· Kinematic architecture and tolerance design – how to shortcut all critical tolerances
· How to use local compliant mechanism to ensure ideal performance
RD8 in the making of the World's Best Mechanical Keyboard
To beat the rest of the world – the bar was set high. The video explains how a problem – a poor performing space bar - have annoyed keyboard enthusiasts for decades.
The core technical challenge was to solve the paradox:
· All fits should be perfectly tight, with no rattle, seesaw or backlash.
· Thus, if the fit is too tight, it results in friction, causing the mechanism to block/getting stuck
The design was optimized using the RD8 software and Robust Design principles.
Watch video from the making
Discover how RD8 can ease your Tolerace Analysis and Variation Management
A front page on the Verge!
One of the world's most trusted and renowned online tech magazines – The Verge – deems the Seneca as World's Best Mechanical keyboard.
Getting a world-class rating from one of the web's most trusted tech magazines is a huge milestone. RD8 is proud to be a part of the journey and to have enabled radical different thinking to beat the market and the current solutions.
Read the two featured articles:
Norbauer Seneca review: a $3,600 luxury keyboard for the keyboard obsessed
How to build the best keyboard in the world
BEHIND THE SCENES: How robust Design methods are used to create the worlds best keyboard
Master tolerances with RD8 software
Instead of relying on gut feeling or Excel-based stack-ups, RD8 gives your team a modern, visual, and collaborative piece of software to manage variation. Whether you're designing precision mechanisms or high-volume components, we help you brings clarity to complex assemblies - and avoid costly rework, ensure functionality, and speed up development cycles.
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