Author: Peter Jones

I’m pretty sure that my Bad Idea for a keyboard is just that. I’m just not sure why. I’m pretty sure I’ll just have to bite a bullet, and write something up. Ideally I’ll fund my multimeter first do I can measure the current, otherwise I’ll throw in an LED or two as sacrifices to science.

Noun.
1. A form of music
2. The state I’ve been in
Ex. I’ve been in a funk.

So I’ve been firing up old mmos and stuff. Figure I’ll install them all, play for five minutes if I can get them slash wine to play nice. Get bored. Logout. Right now I’m doing a bit of wow, but I need Blizzard to remove my authenticator. Kinda wish I’d fine that before logging out last time.
Anyway.
I’ve been thinking of how to do my key switch test (see Bad Idea). I think I’ll grab a few stretches with the least crap still attached to the pins, slam them into a breadboard, and run two jumpers into an Arduino. That what I’ll do.
I also need to order shit on Amazon tomorrow. Get a couple carbide bits for the router. Hopefully these wrong begin to char in place.
Maybe I should do the test tomorrow and then order bits as that’s when I’ll be ordering diodes that I may or may not… wait. I have free shipping.
Throw I order bits.

So… I was thinking of this last night.
My soldering is… questionable. This means that in the best of circumstances I still have some resistance.  A measurable resistance. If I made a keyboard with no diodes, just two very long wires, would it work? If I measured the change in voltage with each key press, would I be able to get a solid enough answer to what key was pressed? The nice thing, beyond the baseline simplicity, is it should have practically infinite KRO, and no ghosting. I think.
Bad ideas. Maybe when I get home, I should try this on a small enough test scale. I’m currently stymied by the curse of shitty router bits starting to char a bit (hahaha).
When I get home. Maybe.

Got home late again, and way too tired…

Got home too late for woodworking after dinner, so instead I spent about an hour on networked data logging. Really I got looking at what it would take to refer to systems by name so I could skip the whole ip address changing challenge. And by that, I mean I got looking into an almost totally unrelated DDNS system so I could self host.
Honestly, I need to get back on track with project every day. Small steps every day.

Tonight I’ll use the router to straighten a board to use as my cutting guide. Then I can just clamp things for a straight cut. Next will be measuring out my master for the cut outs. Doing things ghetto can be fun and difficult at the same time. I figure at a later point I’ll start looking at how to do things right with more better tools. I just didn’t want to spend money until I knew what I was really looking at.

I was feeling cheap and lazy (er both) so I got a little trim router instead. Also got wood and stuff. Tried using the Wif’s battery powered circular saw on the plywood, but it was binding up. I’ve never really liked the thing. It also was tearing the living daylights out of the edge, so I put that away. Our came the router. After poking at some stuff, got it going. It was also trying to bind and jump and whatever, so I backed off. Raised the bit, and it went through like butter. Listed the blade a bit, ran another pass like butter. So tomorrow, it looks like I’ll mount on a straight line, and cut like an emo teen. Not deep, just over and over.

Router table
Wood glue (have some, need less dried out)
Level
Plywood sheet
Posts (5×3′ ?)
Dowels
Clamps? Wouldn’t hurt

So the Wif wants me to build a cat tree, something like:
this picture
So tomorrow we’re planning to hit Harbor Freight. I was looking at a router at the Despot. Then I realized I could get the same damn thing (plus or minus) at half the price.
Yay! I’m getting a router table!

So Inkscape can’t print for me, but Inkscape can save a pdf which I can print. The I’d bit is that when it fails to print, it locks the printer as well. I should look into a firmware update, or I should look into what kind of data that Inkscape is trying to send. I’d have to guess that it’s… hmmm… an end-of-line mismatch? That might make sense.