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Keyboards / keys ain't work
« Last post by ZentoBoomin on Sun, 12 May 2024, 17:43:57 »hello everyone, recently i bought an aftermarket keyboard from someone else, and idk what kind of specific model for it but all i know its from tecware phantom TKL. short story when i tested it its working and all the lights are lit up, but the f3, 3, e, d, c, and all botttom rows where the space is located (including Arrow keys) is doesn't work. I've tested to jumper the pin but failed because the space doesn't even turned on.
like for example if i connect a wire to the second pin (the one that are connected to diode) in this case alt-right key and connect it to the top row, the key that will activate is v key, and if i more it to the top once more, the f key activate, repeat this step and the key that actived is r, 4, f4.
I've do the same thing with space but it doesn't work at all. anyone have any idea?, i think its the traces to the space that are messed up but I've checked using multimeter that are all the rows are beeping and the diodes are beeping. any ideas?
like for example if i connect a wire to the second pin (the one that are connected to diode) in this case alt-right key and connect it to the top row, the key that will activate is v key, and if i more it to the top once more, the f key activate, repeat this step and the key that actived is r, 4, f4.
I've do the same thing with space but it doesn't work at all. anyone have any idea?, i think its the traces to the space that are messed up but I've checked using multimeter that are all the rows are beeping and the diodes are beeping. any ideas?
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Off Topic / Re: Favorite Fruit?
« Last post by quartermile on Sun, 12 May 2024, 17:02:29 »cantelope is hands down the best melon god has created
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] KKB Buff Bride
« Last post by //gainsborough on Sun, 12 May 2024, 16:37:17 »it finally happened....
I'll take your entire stock.
I'll take your entire stock.
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Off Topic / Re: This year may be biblical
« Last post by tp4tissue on Sun, 12 May 2024, 14:07:03 »We can barely handle 100 million refugees today, projection is 2 Billion refugees @ 2.7Celcius, Not a single country is ready, or even preparing.
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] Hiexa V Series--Four Custom Keyboards+500pcs Switches Review links Updates
« Last post by vhaarr on Sun, 12 May 2024, 11:04:46 »Sorry mate, you're off my Christmas card list.
Aww :-S No offense mate. I've never bought anything from you and according to my browser history I've only ever visited your site once to look at GMK Terror Below for some reason
I'm sure you're as stable as the shops I listed - however, there is the increased risk of OH****INGNOPE eating you or stinging you down there.Of course that also applies to dailyclack, so they're off my list now that I think about it. I'm sure there's nasty nopes hiding in their shoes as we speak.
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Off Topic / These new VESA HDR certifications.
« Last post by tp4tissue on Sun, 12 May 2024, 10:32:03 »They've basically set a common denominator where just about every display would pass with minimal tweaking. It's a ploy to sell more certifications, not to improve displays.
The whole point of testing, is to make it harder to pass, thereby push the technology development. Instead, they've made it trivially easy, so they can sell their sticker.
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Reviews / Raptor MX Extreme Switch Review
« Last post by ThereminGoat on Sun, 12 May 2024, 10:25:24 »Hey all,
Who even is HMX anyhow? After having watched this up and coming brand of switches become increasingly popular in recent months, I had to take a look into it and am left... well quite a bit confused. With Geon's new Raptor MX Extreme switches as a back drop, this review takes a headlong dive into what I know about HMX and just how well their switches seem to shape up performance wise.
Website: https://www.theremingoat.com/
Article: https://www.theremingoat.com/blog/raptor-mx-extreme-switch-review
Scorecard Repository: https://github.com/ThereminGoat/switch-scores
Force Curve Repository: https://github.com/ThereminGoat/force-curves
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theremingoat
As always, thank you all for the continued readership week in and out. As we start heading into meetup season I will be stretching my legs and getting the collection out there a bit, though I'm not entirely sure exactly where yet. Hopefully wherever I land with the collection I'll get to meet some of you in person!
Cheers,
Goat
Who even is HMX anyhow? After having watched this up and coming brand of switches become increasingly popular in recent months, I had to take a look into it and am left... well quite a bit confused. With Geon's new Raptor MX Extreme switches as a back drop, this review takes a headlong dive into what I know about HMX and just how well their switches seem to shape up performance wise.
Website: https://www.theremingoat.com/
Article: https://www.theremingoat.com/blog/raptor-mx-extreme-switch-review
Scorecard Repository: https://github.com/ThereminGoat/switch-scores
Force Curve Repository: https://github.com/ThereminGoat/force-curves
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theremingoat
As always, thank you all for the continued readership week in and out. As we start heading into meetup season I will be stretching my legs and getting the collection out there a bit, though I'm not entirely sure exactly where yet. Hopefully wherever I land with the collection I'll get to meet some of you in person!
Cheers,
Goat
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Making Stuff Together! / Re: You can put rotary encoders in a keyboard matrix!
« Last post by Snipeye on Sun, 12 May 2024, 10:14:11 »you need about 2K+ scans/second to avoid missing a transition, but that's not too hard to achieve.That's interesting. How do you debounce them?
Do you report a step on the next change and suppress only the opposite turning direction for the bounce period?
Or do you not need to?
The traditional method for debouncing encoders is to pass the raw outputs through a state machine (I didn't look closely, but I think it's described right in the stackexchange post https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/360637/quadrature-encoder-most-efficient-software-implementation). QMK debounces individual keys in the matrix, and those debounced values are currently getting handled by the state machine so it's sort of double-debounced, which is providing some less-than-graceful results (the default key debouncing is too aggressive/not a good fit for an encoder).
I've written (for the client I mentioned in my previous post, with 32 encoders) a bitfield-state machine that handles all 32 encoders in parallel by performing bitwise operations on uint32_t variables that worked really well - I plan on submitting another PR to QMK to implement this method since it debounces all encoders at once (instead of running a loop that debounces them all individually).
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Making Stuff Together! / Re: You can put rotary encoders in a keyboard matrix!
« Last post by Snipeye on Sun, 12 May 2024, 10:09:35 »Very interesting, seems really useful for custom midi controllers.
Yeah, that's what the 32-encoder board I designed (for a client) does - a synth of some sort; I'll ask him if he's OK if I post pictures. Various knobs to change variables like frequency, wave type (sawtooth, etc)... I don't know what else, but he was asking for as many knobs as he could possibly get, haha.
As far as this board... it's not useful except to prove that the encoders work in the matrix. IDK if you watched the video (first attachment), but I've set it up so that turns on alphabetic keys shift their mapping (a -> b, b -> c on clockwise turns, and backward on counterclockwise). Really don't know what else to do with it, lol - 30 volume controls? Somebody suggested "30 volume controls but each one only controls 3.3% of the total volume" or "30-player pong somehow"...