Wick3d. Well there is only one way to describe your project so far, and my prediction for its outcome: l33t.
*tease* I've finished all the tool work on the keyless keyboard and I'm about to go assemble it. */tease* I've also find a great local source for plastics and I purchased all the plastic I needed to construct the keyboard lid AND all the plastic I still need to make the LCD lid. Plus some extra material. The total of my bill was a meager $7. Me happy
The pics speak for themselves, so... It's not the best keeyboard for typing, but it was one heck of a fun project. I made it specifically for eye-catching appeal and instant-response keys which work great for gaming. Now that my fingers know where they're landing, this is the ideal keyboard for playing first-person shooters. I can rest my fingers in the required keyholes and press ever-so lightly to move, jump, strafe, or select weapons with ease. Mmmmm, and it's tasty. :drool:
Um, I'm going to have to kidnap you and steal your keyboard. Nothing personal, of course Seriously sweet work
Yowza! That is one heck of a keyboard. Why didn't you extend the buttons out with cylinders of some kind for more easy use?
If he extended the buttons with cylinders wouldnt that defeat the purpose of a keyless keyboard? That evil smiley is l33t. Good job. its a damn nice keyboard. I would think that the depth of the holes would get annoying so if I made one I would like counter sink the holes or something. Again, nice job!
You have inspired me to create what I plan to call the "ultraviolet" keyboard. I plan on making something Veeerrrryyy ineresting, once I learn how to use some power tools Great job!
Well, the 4" tablesaw proved worthless for cutting thick plastic so I spent the remainder of yesterday purchasing and setting up a 10" tablesaw. Now I have a really loud and violent tool in my workshop. :haha: I'll make some more progress on Tuesday.
Loving that keyboard.... sooo sweet. Question : How good is the picture on the LCD, for reading text on webpages and stuff ?? Should be good for movies, just wondering. Keep up the excellent work. Darkside.
It's a Video LCD, so the input picture is hardware resampled to it's native resolution of 320x240. I can output to it in 1024 x 768 and do everything I normally do but the text is unreadable. Unless of course I fill the top 1/4th of the screen with windows magnifier. Through which I could read as I type or view websites if I wanted to. And as far as I can tell it's color range isn't spectacular. Somewhere around 200k-400k. Much like a standard TV.
That's what I wanted to know.... cheers for the honest reply. Think I'll still do one of those myself as a stats display. Darkside.
Too bad about the text but that's a most excellent keyboard. I was thinking of getting one of those small LCDs for a stats/visualization display but wasn't sure if it'd be worth the price (somewhere are $200 if I remember correctly)
