 Alright, every single week Lady Aida and Digi-Key bring you the great search, this is where Lady Aida uses her powers of engineering to use the Digi-Key site, this segment's brought to you by Digi-Key, thank you Digi-Key Lady Aida, what is the great search this week? I'm glad you're asked, this week we just talked about designing some Cherry MX compatible switch projects working on this Neo-Key prototype and I want to get started quickly and so to make sure that this stuff all works with Cherry MX switches I was like, oh I should just pick up a couple Cherry MX switches, you know I'm gonna put in a Digi-Key order tomorrow I'll just toss in some Cherry MX switches and I realized like, hey I should show people you can get Cherry MX switches from Digi-Key you don't have to like go to a special keyboard site, support your local keyboard site but you can also just add a couple to your Digi-Key order, you can also get sockets and I'll show those off as well So, you know this search in particular is not going to be that exciting because you just type in Cherry MX and I just searched in style, yeah there's kind of like, it's it So there's a couple of different switches and here's the options you have in stock and you're probably like, what's the difference between these Well some of them have like a little panel mount lip it looks like but there's basically the clicky type and the non clicky type and blue is clicky so if you go over here you can even see audible click is the type for the blues, the blue stem and then black or linear and they have a lot in stock and what else was that was cool is they have they have the 3D, the 360 view so you can like, this is kind of neat, you can like rotate this around so you can see the bottom it's a really nice 3D model so for the, oh it's interesting this has, you can even see there's a little marking on the bottom that's like for the diode and then nice mechanical diagrams, I'll say like not all keys have really good mechanical diagrams like the Cherry MX's do there's also like I said the blue type so for these they have a clicking sound and you can like pick them up, you know they're basically like 70 cent a piece and you can kind of get like tens of thousands immediately so if you just need a lot of Cherry MX switches and they're like genuine cherries you are super set so everything I saw while I was looking for switches is people on some like keyboard reddits talking about sockets for these so you can actually, you know instead of soldering in the pins directly you can solder in these like ultra slim Milmax sockets and then use those as mechanical sockets to place and replace your keys so if you start with Cherry MX blacks and then you're like now it turns out I want blues you like the clicky, you don't like the clicky so there are two series you want to look for it's the Milmax 7305 and the 73 oh hold on I told you Milmax 7305 that's weird let me try the main search Milmax 7305 oh I can't type fourth time's a charm max 7305 why is it taking me to the LED weird, okay anyways maybe excited to have a dash but the Milmax so you know they're not designed for use with the Cherry MX's but they work great so these the 7305 series are the gold plate ones they're gonna be a little bit more expensive and then there's the 0305's and those are the tin plate some people really want the gold plate you know I get it let me try if you just go to terminals pin receptacles and I search for Milmax and then under series I'll select 73 oh five and then 0305 oh my goodness there are so many pins 305 they're really similar but yeah one's gold and one's tin you'll pay more for the gold and then you can get different contact finish thickness I don't think you really need more than ten micro inches but let me see what's available so in stock you can get the 7305 let me see this one are they actually both gold finish one is, oh they're different lengths so there's ones that are a little bit longer but this is the one that I pretty much saw when linking to so if you're gonna pick up the Cherry MX switches and you want to hot swap them pick up also the 7305-0-1515 472-7-10 or the Digi-Keep Brighton which is much shorter it's the ED-1039 ND from Milmax you'll need two of these per switch but the good news is you don't have to change the footprint that much I think you just want to make the hole a little bit larger but this looks like let's look at the datasheet oh no it's probably gonna have my app locker but if you, sorry for the theater diameter you'll just want to make sure that when you're using these with your switches that the switch pins have to be square, they can't be rectangular so for example like Kale and other switches won't fit as well because these if you look they're like they really need to be like a square pin connector but for Cherry MX switches apparently they work really great so those are my two recommendations I basically was looking for these anyways to put together my keypad design so I'm going to pick up some of these, I'm going to try out these quick sockets, you do have to hand place them but then you can solder them in place and a lot of people use these for existing keyboards that they want to turn into hot swap keyboards and that's my great search alright wait