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.
Kentucky Meetup
- Blaise170
- ALPS キーボード
- Location: Boston, MA
- Main keyboard: Cooler Master Quickfire Stealth
- Main mouse: Logitech G502
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
- DT Pro Member: 0129
- Contact:
- Blaise170
- ALPS キーボード
- Location: Boston, MA
- Main keyboard: Cooler Master Quickfire Stealth
- Main mouse: Logitech G502
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
- DT Pro Member: 0129
- Contact:
Not sure if they've been invited, but maybe I'll send an email their way.
- Blaise170
- ALPS キーボード
- Location: Boston, MA
- Main keyboard: Cooler Master Quickfire Stealth
- Main mouse: Logitech G502
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
- DT Pro Member: 0129
- Contact:
Yeah it turned out great. Pics and such here.
http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeybo ... a_success/
http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeybo ... a_success/
- seebart
- Offtopicthority Instigator
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: Rotation
- Main mouse: Steelseries Sensei
- Favorite switch: IBM capacitive buckling spring
- DT Pro Member: 0061
- Contact:
Cool, looks like a really nice event. Now this I'd like to learn more about:
- derzemel
- Location: Bucharest, Romania
- Main keyboard: FC660C, SSK, TX-1800 Nixie
- Main mouse: Mionix Naos 7000
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCL/SKCM tactile
according to the reddit user uColonel (the builder), this thing is a MIDI keyboard:seebart wrote: ↑Cool, looks like a really nice event. Now this I'd like to learn more about:
Spoiler:
quote from the user blaise170:
quote from the builder: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.
It is a very interesting new use of cherry switches.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
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
- Offtopicthority Instigator
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: Rotation
- Main mouse: Steelseries Sensei
- Favorite switch: IBM capacitive buckling spring
- DT Pro Member: 0061
- Contact:
right I was too lazy to follow up on that myself, thaks for posting that derzemel. Crazy project. But cool.