Kentucky Meetup

Blaise170 · 16 Jun 2015, 17:41

Hey guys, as part of the keyboard.io road trip, members of the Louisville, KY community have decided to host a keyboard meetup this Saturday 20 June 2015. Details can be found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeybo ... oard_club/

Hope to see people there this weekend.

Muirium · 16 Jun 2015, 17:42

Anyone from Unicomp showing up?

Blaise170 · 16 Jun 2015, 18:15

Not sure if they've been invited, but maybe I'll send an email their way.

XMIT · 24 Jun 2015, 03:35

Who did show up? Anyone?

Blaise170 · 24 Jun 2015, 05:40

Yeah it turned out great. Pics and such here.

http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeybo ... a_success/

seebart · 24 Jun 2015, 10:17

Cool, looks like a really nice event. Now this I'd like to learn more about:

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derzemel · 24 Jun 2015, 11:05

seebart wrote: ↑Cool, looks like a really nice event. Now this I'd like to learn more about:

Spoiler:
qFPV63Y.jpg

according to the reddit user uColonel (the builder), this thing is a MIDI keyboard:

quote from the user blaise170:

He said that he cut the bottoms out of Cherry MX blues, then put tactile switches under each one on another PCB. The stem from the blues then actuate the underlying layer and give a "sensing" effect where the PC can find out how far down the switch has been pressed.

quote from the builder:

Hello, I am the guy behind this. It started as a project at LVL1 Hackerspace out of a custom music equipment group we started. This is an isomorphic keyboard we designed, using modded Cherry MX switches and sandwiched PCBs to get a velocity-sensitive keyboard. I.e. it's a keyboard where the harder (faster) you press the key, the louder the corresponding MIDI note message (1-128 value range). Here's an older wiki entry of ours describing how this works: http://wiki.lvl1.org/Isomorphic_Keyboard

It is a very interesting new use of cherry switches.
I thought a few times on how to make a system that would sense how far and how fast a key is pressed, but I never tought of simply stacking 2 MX switches on top of each other

seebart · 24 Jun 2015, 11:18

right I was too lazy to follow up on that myself, thaks for posting that derzemel. Crazy project. But cool.