New Nanonote keyboard

cenobyte at dragoncrypt.com cenobyte at dragoncrypt.com
Sun Sep 11 00:12:00 EDT 2011


 Thank you, be sure to mail me any suggestions for improvement! I think 
 I actually CAN get a working unit soon...I have green, red, and white 
 clay for Jlime, Debian, and OpenWRT respectively. If I get that far, I 
 can paint or otherwise mark on the key surfaces.


> You are cool!
>
> On Sunday, September 11, 2011,   wrote:
>> Emboldened by my success with the minor rebuild of my nanonote
> keyboard, I have got a crazy idea. Why not try to make one from
> scratch? I am in a unique position because unlike normal mechanical
> keyboards, which could never be machined by hand, the Nanonote
> keyboard is actually rather simple. After searching for pre-existing
> key materials, I settled on modeling clay as a test material. I 
> rolled
> the stuff out with a rolling pin, then used a plain kitchen knife to
> cut the right sized squares. I measured 8mm long by 7mm tall for each
> key and about 1mm thick. The first 2 batches were too thick, but in
> time I will probably get that down to a more thin sheet. Since I 
> could
> not find a spare credit card for the backing, I sunk to using
> cardboard. To adhere the keys to the back and to each other, I used 
> my
> old standby fabric paint (not as smelly as silicone). After that
> dries, I still need to add nipples on the back for the keys to have
> reasonable action. We'll see how it goes. Here are the pics of so 
> far.
> BTW, I know I'm crazy.
>  >
>>
>> http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Rolledclaykeys.jpg [2]
>> http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Imposedkeys.jpg [3]
>  > http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Sizedkeys.jpg [4]
>> http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Angledbuild2.jpg [5]
>  > http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Cardboardbacking.jpg [6]
>> http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Keyplacement.jpg [7]
>  > http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Keyboardbackside.jpg [8]
>> http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Glueapplied.jpg [9]
>  >
>> You may be interested, or this may oddly anger you. It seems a
> little unimportant and frivolous even to me right now, but let me 
> know
> that you think...
>>
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> [1] mailto:cenobyte at dragoncrypt.com
> [2] http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Rolledclaykeys.jpg
> [3] http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Imposedkeys.jpg
> [4] http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Sizedkeys.jpg
> [5] http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Angledbuild2.jpg
> [6] http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Cardboardbacking.jpg
> [7] http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Keyplacement.jpg
> [8] http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Keyboardbackside.jpg
> [9] http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Glueapplied.jpg
> [10] mailto:discussion at lists.en.qi-hardware.com
> [11] http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
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