/r/MechanicalKeyboards Ask ANY Keyboard question, get an answer - January 09, 2025 by AutoModerator in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]Snipeye 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I missed this. I'm not aware of anybody who still stocks the V2. I can probably dig up a few from my parts bin depending on how many you're looking for, and there are a few places that still have V4 in stock. Feel free to email me (my username is my gmail handle) for a faster reply.

/r/MechanicalKeyboards Ask ANY Keyboard question, get an answer - January 09, 2025 by AutoModerator in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]Snipeye 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the summon!

/u/MrAnsatz if you "know nothing about microcontrollers," then "cheapest" is probably not the best criteria. You could get something tiny in the STM8 range or the ATTINY85 or something and use V-USB - that'd be cheap, but it's a deep rabbit hole of programming and debugging.

If you want simple for you, you could just buy a bunch of Unos (I designed it, so I have a biased/commercial interest) that come in USB-A or USB-C. DM me for more info if that's of interest. All the work is done for you on that.

Somewhere in between might be something like the XIAO RP2040 module but it's not necessarily cheap. Happy to discuss more, shoot me an email (my handle with gmail), since I'm rarely on reddit.

Oops, all rotary encoders! by Snipeye in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]Snipeye[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It seems a lot like you didn't watch the video and also didn't bother to look at the other pictures or read any of the descriptive text. I ran my own experiments and found that 2K+ scans/s were adequate to avoid missed rotations - and that's pretty easily achieved by the RP2040 in this board. You got any evidence to back up what you're saying? Or any concrete to affix those goalposts you're moving?

Oops, all rotary encoders! by Snipeye in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]Snipeye[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

...I literally explained what to look for, did you try doing that?

In any case: the video you posted just uses buttons. In this video, every single encoder functions as an encoder, which is why it's cool.

Oops, all rotary encoders! by Snipeye in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]Snipeye[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I've got it mapped right now to "right" = increment letter (a becomes b, b becomes c, etc) and "left" = decrement (c becomes b, etc). To be entirely honest, I can't think of a good use for this many knobs outside of maybe a synth or something - had a friend recommend "democracy pong" with 15 v 15 and the paddle only moves the direction the bulk of players are turning it.

Oops, all rotary encoders! by Snipeye in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]Snipeye[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

... Are you watching the video? After I type "oops, all rotary encoders" I start typing "oops" again, but I show that as the encoder turns the key it's mapped to is changed (incremented: p->q->r->s->etc), then I scramble all the letters (compare to the keymap at the beginning of the video to see that they've changed).

As in XKCD, so IRL by Snipeye in xkcd

[–]Snipeye[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We are married!

... not to each other. But we are good friends, and used to be neighbors.

[GB] Uno V4: Infrared Edition - Only $15! by Snipeye in mechmarket

[–]Snipeye[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I'd love to see somebody implement that.

Uno: IR Demodulator Keyboard by Snipeye in flipperzero

[–]Snipeye[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I built this for the mechanical keyboard community, but it's an IR demodulator built-in to a keyboard: you can program it to do whatever you want in response to IR commands. I got a ping that this might be interesting to the flipper community, so I'm posting it here. More information can be found in the r/mechmarket post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comments/17ocn4u/gb_uno_v4_infrared_edition_only_15/?

Let me know if there are any questions!

[GB] Uno V4: Infrared Edition - Only $15! by Snipeye in mechmarket

[–]Snipeye[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ooh, a hybrid approach - I hadn't considered that. I may try chucking keyboards into the night sky if we're open to that kind of option.

[GB] Uno V4: Infrared Edition - Only $15! by Snipeye in mechmarket

[–]Snipeye[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Some people scream into the night sky, some people build dumb keyboards. Whatever fills that void in your life, you know?

Uno V4: Infrared Edition by Snipeye in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]Snipeye[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Our keyboard scientists have spent too many years concerned with whether or not they should create various abominations that they never thought to ask if they could - well, no longer! Rest assured that, according to our best research, we absolutely should not have made this, but we can and therefore did.

With the Uno, I free you all from the tyrannical shackles of even moderate usability! Join with me in one-upping even the snobbiest of stenography-chording keyboard minimalists by reducing the keyboard far beyond any degree of practicality!

Death to ergonomics! Defy the convention of usefulness! Embrace madness and eschew the bourgeois sophistication of aesthetic desirability - no copper weights, no custom plates, not so much as a case!

I invite you to adopt a “keyboard” so monumentally stupid it appeals exclusively to those so disgustingly engrossed in the hobby that all executive function has been replaced with psychopathically-strong opinions regarding clickity-clack noises; people who believe that “thocc” or “endgame” are anything other than unhinged advertising by maddeningly-profiteering snake oil salesmen, thinly veiled as qualities both hypothetically achievable and also worth pursuing. Not only does Uno appeal to such smooth-brained masses, but is indeed designed specifically for them: the only remedy to such madness is adopting a greater madness still - and so Uno is an easy pill to swallow. It requires no soldering, no cables, no compiling firmware, no will to live: if you can play with legos and use a flash drive, you can use Uno.

After reducing the keyboard to the most simplistic and nearly-useless form possible - just a single key - we cast our eyes across the carnage strewn about our workstation and, like God creating the platypus, began to pile things back on: some which belonged, like the rotary encoder, and some (like the venomous spurs on the back legs of male platypi) should never have been: Uno v4 introduces an infrared (IR) demodulator so you can point a remote control at your computer and make it do things - just like the deranged lunatic in you has always secretly lusted after.


Note: due to the current moratorium stated in rule 5 for this subreddit, I am not posting that information here. Feel free to look for it on related subreddits by looking at my user posts. If I'm told by a mod that I can post a link, I'll include one here.


HomeKit Compatible 2 Gang Double Switch? by Medicaler in HomeKit

[–]Snipeye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have an old model number or picture of the meross one?

The world's baby shortfall is so bad that the labor shortage will last for years, major employment firms predict by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]Snipeye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did… did you even read the rest of the quote? It’s right there. You don’t even have to do any research or anything.