Make a Keyboard From a Keyboard - Part 1

Your standard "cheap-o" keyboard, is actually a really impressive bit of engineering. If you were to open one up, you might expect to see a big circuit board, the same size as your keyboard. But you would be wrong! What you will find, is a rubber membrane, a few sheets of clear plastic, and a tiny little circuit board in the corner with a bunch of pins on it. And it's these pins that are the real genius behind the design. Simply by making different combination between the 2 sets of pins, the keyboard is able to communicate all the different characters on the keyboard to your computer.

So, to make a custom controller, all you have to so is wire your own switches to those pins. But how do you know what pins? The answer is on those 2 clear plastic sheets. It's just a matter of locating where each key you want is on the sheet, and then tracing its path back to the pins. At first glance, it may look like a daunting task. And it kind of is, if you set of to do it by hand, but it can be done, it's just very tedious. However, if you scan the 2 sheets into the computer, you can basically just take the 'paint bucket' tool, click on the key/line you want to trace, and it highlights the whole line. Do this for each key you want to map, and in a few minutes, you have the pin combinations.

In this video, I demonstrate that very technique, and show you a previous one I made. Keep an eye out for a future video where I wire up the keyboard circuit, and design some kind of "mini keyboard' enclosure.

Rulof Maker: https://www.youtube.com/RulofItalianMaker
How to Make Knobs • Control Any Software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V8MeBPohD8

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