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I wasn't sure this hack was going to work, but it did, and it was cheap.

AHHH! What on earth has gone on here?

Seriously tho, can you give us some details? This looks awesome.

J

Yeah, I'm writing a blog post about it with pictures and stuff, in part for my dumb self to remember what the hell I did. It's basically 2 PCBs, one from the nanokontrol and the other from a qwerty keyboard. I saw someone did a foot controller thing here with the pc keyboard chip so I stole that idea and ran with it. the only problem I'm having is with the mini-usb hub that's connecting the two boards inside the box; somehow it works great when I plug them both into my laptop separately, or even into the same ol' usb hub I've been using for all my other shit, but when I connect them inside the box with this little ten-buck Lacie 4-port hub i bought for the project, I get this terrible lag time on the buttons, messages get lost, etc. I just bought a different hub so we'll see if that fixes it. Anyone have any experience with USB drama like that? I've never seen it before.

^ USB 1.0 vs 2.0 maybe??? big speed change there.

i was thinking of doing something like this but just with a QWERTY to make a button matrix. are there any resources online that you used to hack the QWERTY? i know a momentary button is just a momentary button, but i'm sure there's more to it than that. also, if I did something like I'm describing, I would want the caps lock key on so I could just use the A-Z buttons (capitalized) and not have my regular laptop keyboard interfere- any way you know of to do this? is the caps lock button just a latching button? any help you could throw my way would be hella cool- i'm no rupert neve, but i've built/modded a few things before.

thanks!

Oh that is good stuff....

Amazing. I can't wait to read the blog posts. Put the link up here when you are finished please!

i wanna read that blogpost too.
hit me up with pm with the link, or reply to it here, pretty please?

It's looking like next week for the blog; I'll put the link up here when it's done. And if anyone here is in NYC, I'm doing a set at Don Pedro's on Friday night where this thing will probably catch fire and ruin lives. Come get loaded!

looking forward to it.

My god!!! Ur a freak!!

Hi There,
One word Huge!!!!
What are the values of the pots you have used for your project ?

memes_33 wrote:i was thinking of doing something like this but just with a QWERTY to make a button matrix. are there any resources online that you used to hack the QWERTY? i know a momentary button is just a momentary button, but i'm sure there's more to it than that. also, if I did something like I'm describing, I would want the caps lock key on so I could just use the A-Z buttons (capitalized) and not have my regular laptop keyboard interfere- any way you know of to do this? is the caps lock button just a latching button? any help you could throw my way would be hella cool- i'm no rupert neve, but i've built/modded a few things before.

thanks!

maybe you should think of a numerical keyboard. those keys are not used on the laptop keyboard, but they are recognized, so you could use them independently. or just use it like it is... it´s already a matrix!




but it doesn´t look as cool as fakemoneys box

I had an idea that a POS (point of sale) USB keyboard would be good to hack into a button matrix:

http://www.cherrycorp.com/english/keybo ... /index.htm

pretty minimal too...

Saxer wrote:

memes_33 wrote:i was thinking of doing something like this but just with a QWERTY to make a button matrix. are there any resources online that you used to hack the QWERTY? i know a momentary button is just a momentary button, but i'm sure there's more to it than that. also, if I did something like I'm describing, I would want the caps lock key on so I could just use the A-Z buttons (capitalized) and not have my regular laptop keyboard interfere- any way you know of to do this? is the caps lock button just a latching button? any help you could throw my way would be hella cool- i'm no rupert neve, but i've built/modded a few things before.

thanks!

maybe you should think of a numerical keyboard. those keys are not used on the laptop keyboard, but they are recognized, so you could use them independently. or just use it like it is... it´s already a matrix!




but it doesn´t look as cool as fakemoneys box

Do some searching for home made arcade games. Many of them use a numeric keyboard for the buttons