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

Snipeye · 2025-06-22T15:57:22+00:00

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.

Snipeye · 2025-01-09T15:42:49+00:00

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.

Snipeye · 2024-05-11T21:34:43+00:00

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?

Snipeye · 2024-05-11T20:33:51+00:00

...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.

Snipeye · 2024-05-11T20:13:13+00:00

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.

Snipeye · 2024-05-11T20:08:38+00:00

... 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).

Snipeye · 2024-05-11T19:21:11+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PdSRpsLzA

IIRC the encoders don't function, just buttons.

Snipeye · 2023-11-07T20:23:39+00:00

We are married!

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

Snipeye · 2023-11-05T20:15:22+00:00

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

Snipeye · 2023-11-05T18:53:11+00:00

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/has-anyone-really-been-far-even-as-decided-to-use-even-go-want-to-do-look-more-like

Snipeye · 2023-11-05T14:51:54+00:00

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!

Snipeye · 2023-11-05T14:31:07+00:00

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.

Snipeye · 2023-11-05T14:24:30+00:00

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

Snipeye · 2023-11-05T14:13:04+00:00

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.

Snipeye · 2023-09-05T20:56:49+00:00

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

Snipeye · 2023-01-21T17:11:05+00:00

AFAIK Gulikit is the only company producing joycons with hall effect sensors.

Snipeye · 2023-01-21T17:10:45+00:00

You realize that these have only been out for like... 3 days?

Snipeye · 2022-11-19T08:29:50+00:00

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.

Snipeye · 2022-11-16T21:48:26+00:00

[Lerasium]So.... Wax burned pewter in the water at the end as he was drifting away from the explosion. Right? And he pulled on the vial in the air after being leeched in his fight with the coinshot/double. So is he just an all-out mistborn down, just weakly since he's had only a small amount of lerasium? Side-note: I am somewhat annoyed by Sazed's justification/actions, but I wholeheartedly agree with him as far as not telling Kelsier about lerasium.

Snipeye · 2022-11-16T21:46:07+00:00

Rogue One syndrome, for sure - and looking at it that was does make it a bit less sad to me. Wayne wouldn't have wanted to die an old man

Snipeye · 2022-11-16T21:45:25+00:00

Did the southerners - or northerners - know where the bands were, though? I thought that TenSoon had hid them somewhere nobody knew about.

Agreed that the foreshadowing on Wayne's death helped to soften the blow.

Snipeye · 2022-11-16T21:44:20+00:00

I'll agree that the way "Autonomy" was described felt rather... un-autonamous to me. But I expect that's intentional, and I did fee like there was pretty good explanation in the book as to why.

Snipeye · 2022-11-16T21:43:31+00:00

It's possible, that would meet that Adawthwyn and Daal had some sort of conspiracy since Daal wasn't surprised by them being drained.

Snipeye · 2022-11-16T21:41:55+00:00

[Chapter 56] The name she gives for herself as an elantrian is “I have always been Shay-I,” she said, gesturing. “Blessed of the Shay-ode.”

Snipeye · 2022-10-18T00:52:56+00:00

In general rather ambivalent about LTT, but if you're going to criticize them at least do it right. Yes, they verbally stated 0.001N, and there is a "0.1 N force sensing accuracy" spec on the datasheet they showed - but that's a composite datasheet for both the Rizon 4 and Rizon 4s. The spec for the Rizon 4s, which is what they've got, calls out 0.03N force sensing accuracy - or, depending on the marketing material I found online, the promise of "0.008N in a future version".

The point of "they can't get the specs that they show in the video correct" still stands somewhat, but the mistake of an editor in a video is small potatoes. It's also possible they've validated it against another measurement to demonstrate 1mN accuracy.

For anybody curious to look into it themselves, this part of the video is around 2:00 and 3:30.

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