Brace yourselves: Illuminated silicone buttons

[Wisefire]

idealy i would have a 16 by 16 grid (we could beat monome to it :P)

and the pcbs to go with it.. also the plates for the frame (cant we have a group order with that? let someone cnc it out for us.. in groups of 4 by 4 like the pcb and the buttons itself.. with mounting holes in every corner of that 4 by 4 plate.. we would also need a modified mios program that just turns the buttons into outgoing midi signals and convert the incoming midi signals into leds going on or off..

to do my part i am willing to build or modify some of the MAX/MSP programs monome uses (they are opensource!!)

so that its a fully monome clone..

[Wisefire]

checkout this topic http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?topic=6505.30

i am actually already trying to build a scrapyard monome, well Bill came up with the idea for using the c64 as midicontroller.. but i am researching if the monome program can be modified to accomodate for the c64 controller..

[Sasha]

Price: $9.95 so for the 8x8 grig you will need 160 bux! It is way to much just for pads. Rarely I see so overpriced product. Bastards  >:(

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=7836#

[Wisefire]

thats a bit much.. maybe we can get the price down with a group buy..

edit.. actually it'll probably cost about 80 bux..

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=7835 check it

[Sasha]

We can surely get the price down, but not low as it should be. When I was searching for silicone sheets to make my own laser cut buttons i read somewhere that these kind of buttons developed about 30 yesrs ago as a cheep substitution for regular buttons. I see this as very expensive substiutution for much better buttons. If we get the price half than it is now it would still be to high. I can make better looking buttons on my own using acrylic but that silicone soft touch feeling is bit hard to get. I intented to use silicone rubber glued on top of the acrylic button caps and that is it. I only need to know could it be laser cut. If it can... that is supercheep, great looking and touching substitution to any button. Only downfall is thickness of only 0.5mm. I found some companies in chine making thicker sheets but thay are not selling small quanityes.

URL:http://www.modulor.de/shop/oxid.php/sid/aa600e7c543208475086351067bbaf48/cl/details/cnid/BAA/anid/BAAD

[RTurner]

Yeah, the prices are WAY higher than the guy quoted me in the email...  So it won't be the best solution for your monome-killer.

[Wisefire]

i think im willing to pay that much for it.. well an 8 by 8 monome clone.. its actually pretty cool to work with it.. and ive succesfully hooked  a midibox up to a monome patch.. its works!!

[TK.]

Btw.: I'm planning to create a 64 button/LED matrix application soon, I will use moxi's DIY button caps for this.

This hardware is intented as an extension for MBSEQ, but it can also be used by other apps.

Only 3 DOUT and 2 DIN registers will be required. This means, it can be easily extented to a 256 or 512 button/LED variant :)

Best Regards, Thorsten.

[tos]

256/512 Buttons

That's some scarry thoughts TK.

[docbrown]

Wow, 512!! :o :o I guess 1024 is not far away..

Since (if I remember reading it here somewhere in this forum that said ) MIOS can support up to 1024 switches, did anybody here in this forum actualy have implemented 1024 switches yet?

If so, what application are you currently running this setup?

thanks..

[moogah]

If so, what application are you currently running this setup?

Taking over the world, mabey?  :D