Costum LEGO keyboard

[Grond]

Some guy made a working Lego keyboard - too bad it's rubber domes! Also, the keys look quite filmsy while in action. Still a nice project in my opinion, I wish I'll see a Cherry MX version someday.

Edit: Sorry, I can't remember how to use that youtube tag.

[Muirium]

[youtube]code goes here[/youtube]

The code is the messy bit at the end of a YouTube URL. So https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEEzQKJfNE0 >> SEEzQKJfNE0 for your video. Which means:

[matt3o]

membraaaneeee! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[Kurk]

It was only a matter of time. Now onto a mechanical LEGO board.
When I first saw Cherry MX switches I immediately thought "mmh, LEGO cross axles". Unfortunately they don't fit. So, matt3o, forget about this whole MX mount for Topre stuff. We need a LEGO mount for Cherry MX!

[suka]

Like this?

[Muirium]

In the final version, each of the studs says SUKA.

[matt3o]

it's funny because it means "suck it" in a very unpleasant Italian slang

[Muirium]

WARNING: All keycaps pose a choking hazard! Keep away from idiots and their children.

I always read Suka the Japanese way: rhymes with snooker.

[Grond]

Thanks Muirium, I just fixed that!
A nice feature about lego keycaps is that you may customize key height by just adding flat pieces. So you don't have to have a flat keyboard like the one that guy did. Also, apparently most letters and symbols already exist as official pieces – that's pad printed, though. But keycaps aside, I'd love to see a costum lego keyboard case. Maybe a PCB could be designed for that purpose...

P.S. Apparently official letter tiles come in white as well, and special letters seem to be there too.

Spoiler:

And there are more cool letter tiles from the past!

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[Monster-Toys]

I always read Suka the Japanese way: rhymes with snooker.

Would't the u in suka be (nearly) silent in Japanese?

[Muirium]

Okay, so I say it the way a BBC news presenter reads out Japanese. Which I'm sure sounds hilarious for native Knee-Hohn-Go speakers

[Monster-Toys]

It was not a rhetorical question, thought your Japanese would maybe be better than mine (mine is realy bad). I hoped to learn something.

To go back to topic: a keyboard totally (except the controller but including mechanical switches) made from lego technic would be cool.

[matt3o]

there you go!

[Grond]

What's that matt3o?

[matt3o]

What's that matt3o?

the tangent we DT users often take in... well... basically all threads

oh, and that's why we like it.

[Muirium]

Ah, I thought you meant that. But it is such an angry eye…

[suka]

Sigh, to end this off-topic talk for now:

it's funny because it means "suck it" in a very unpleasant Italian slang

That's the problem of picking a username when you're still young and don't think about keeping it for the rest of your digital life Pronounced the american way it pretty much comes close...

I always read Suka the Japanese way: rhymes with snooker.

That's the problem of picking a username in another language and not considering the pronounciation in others: In German it would be exactly like this.

What's that matt3o?

And while we're at fond memories of childhood riddles: That obviously is a left-handed chinese eating, seen from above.

Back to the topic of LEGO keycaps: I think some nice designs could be created, maybe with a 2x2 lookalike base although the 16mm outer dimensions make it difficult to fit over the switch without very thin walls at the base. I'll take a look at it.

[Halvar]

I guess nobody really wants to type on flat caps, so using LEGO for the case looks like the best part of this idea.

For example if you want to make something like this:

[Grond]

I'd be happy even with a simple, Poker-style keyboard where you can build your own lego frame the way you prefere. Perhaps a lego plate could be laser cut and used for mounting the switches on. But that's probably flimsy compared to a metal plate.