Functional huge keyboard - Update 05-APR-2006

well at least some of the contestants on the biggest loser should be able to use a pc now.

 

i will make a mouse with the keyboard only i dont know the size it wil be

i think i will make it 50 x 35 cm i think other wize it wil be to big

 

oke all the holes are drilled in the acrilic plate it was a lot of work only it id DONE!!!!!


next i bought some plastic wat you normaly use to make winsows in a bathroom so people cant se in


this is the patern of the plastic


and this is a closeup


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Next i mad the keys that are not the normal sqare keys


I schreuwd on all the keys agenst the acrilic plate so the schrews wil go in strait so the keys wil alline goed in the end


after i did all the 400+ schrews this was the result


i turnd the keyboard upside down so you finaly can se how it wil work out


and finaly a image of the full keyboard the keybord is a long way from done all the electric stuff needs to go in and it needds to be painted

CAN YOU GUESS THE DIMENSIONS OF THE KEYBOARD you can post your guess in the Discussion tread

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what he probably means is dimensions, well I guess... actually just too big

 

Real nice so far.

I guess, that the keyboard is about 200 x 70 cm in size.

 

i'm thinking 1 meter by 4
keys look around 15cm square.

 

This is perfect for that kid in that video who shouts at his computer in german and bashes the keyboard. this keyboard would be the pwner instead of the pwnee.

 

to bad not that bigg it will be a smaler guess aggain

 

0.7m by 2.5m?

Cool project! Reminds me of the massive wall clock -- maybe you could make one to go with this!?

ch424

 

I'm going to guess that the keys are 6" square and the whole setup is 132" x 36" or 11' x 3'. It's supposed to be huge after all.

 

based on the chair legs in the background i'd say they keys are 3'x3' that would be what, 6x6 cm?

 

prity cloce little bit bigger

 

next taping the keys so i know later what key need to go where when i put all the keys on aggain


i cut the tape between the keys


and write all the letters on the key


now the funn will start


Twist the keyboard upside down and get all the screws out aggain


so now i end up with wat i starded only an acrilic plate with lots of holes

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As I already guessed, that would make the keys about 9-10cm in square.

 

Yeah! We Dutch sure are wierdos!

Good luck with the futher project. It sure is something special.

 

This is a great project! Looks like a lot of fun. I would guess the keys are 4"x4", which would make the keyboard about 7' by 2 1/4" foot.

 

next i will start on the electric part of the keyboard o got the inside of the keyboard this is a plastic plate with all the points on it


there is a top and a botom plastic plate you can see where it is conected to the print i numbert he little part 1 to 8 and the long part A to R


I put all the letters and numbres on the plastic part so i can easely see what wire need to go where later


i taped these little buttons on the acrilic plate so the wont fall out when i twist the keyboard upside down


next i also put all the letters and numbers with the corosponding keys so now i only nead to connect al the A to the A's and B to the B's and so on

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make a huge joystick to go with it like a huge wobble board that you use your whole body to move

where are you going to keep a keyboard this big??

 

that reminds me of the giant nes controler tech tv made.