Help finding small keyboard keys

[Sid Hartha]

I am a novice and I am working on designing a small electronic device that will have a keypad kind of like a calculator. The keypad will be about 2.5" x 2.5" and will need about 30 keys (3 rows of 10) just to give you an idea of the size of the keys. Anyway, I am just wondering if someone here can point me in the right direction as far as actually getting the blank keys for the keyboard. I don't need any help programing the keys as far as what they will do at this time-i am only interested in obtaining the tiny little keys that i can use for the keypad. Is there anywhere you know of that sells tiny plain unmarked keys already built that I could use? As you can tell from the description, they would need to be about the size of the keys on a blackberry phone.

If there is nowhere you know of that I could find keys sold pre-built for something like this, can anybody direct me to somewhere online where I can learn how to actually build/design these little keys myself?

Thanks.

 

[pranam77]

Here is the thread with ample links to various component vendors. You may get your requirement with any one...Cheers

 

[Sid Hartha]

Thanks for the reply. I'll check those out