Thanks for the info. I checked out digikey and mouser. They really just retail the same sort of stuff as RS. Any buttons that include illumination are for industrial applications and are mostly huge and/or ugly.
But, I had a look around your site (real nice dash install) and came across your custom keyboard thing. I see you used standard momentary push buttons with the intention of putting caps on them. You have made me decide to go the same route (with leds on the PCB for illumination). Most commercial stuff seems to do it that way anyway - it was broke so I took it apart
Did you manage to find/make any key caps? Any ideas how they could be made? I was thinking of using small squares of diffuse plexiglass with a slightly larger bit behind to retain the cap behind the enclosure panel.
What do you (or anyone else) think?
Has anyone done anything similar?
[ 01-12-2002: Message edited by: mccleanp ]