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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: tap132 on Fri, 04 December 2020, 08:58:25
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Im new to the hobby and I know what I wanna do but I dont have any idea on how to do it.
Any ideas on how to make a keyboard sounds like a spray paint/can that is being shaked?
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cheap option
bakeneko60 gasket mount, gat yellow milk top, alu plate
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Tape a coke can with a rock in it to your leg and jiggle it while you type. EZ...
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Expensive option, get the most silent keyboard possible and use a robot arm to shake a can each time you press a key, best sound reproduction ever :)
Or maybe QMK has the ability to drive a solenoid, in which case you can use a cheap mp3 player board to make the sound :)
or follow the cheap option, much better i was only here to joke about
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This is an interesting but flawed idea as a paint can has one relatively large ball rattling around in it creating loud but infrequent (compared to how often you press a key while typing) sounds when it hits the sides.
If you want a keyboard that sounds like gravel being shaken in a bucket MX blue in an echoey case would do it but for true paint can it would have to be a solenoid with a random timer limiting it to one noise every 0.1-0.3 seconds randomly rather than every keypress and as it's not directly connected to the keys you press I think the noise would be distracting.
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Open keyboard case, drop in a ball bearing. Close keyboard case. Shake keyboard. Done.
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Open keyboard case, drop in a ball bearing. Close keyboard case. Shake keyboard. Done.
Good point, OP didn't mention typing on it (https://cdn.geekhack.org/Smileys/solosmileys/laugh.gif)
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A full spray can has different sound characteristics from an empty can though. The contents delays the ball from hitting the can's walls. When full and unshaken, and you start shaking it then it takes a few shakes before it even starts making a noise.
So, the cavity would need to not just have the ball bearing, but also contain a viscous movement-damping liquid - and the cavity would need to be hermetically sealed, or otherwise you would get liquid spray all over your computer equipment.
No, I don't have anything better to do that to post stupid s**t...
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Get a Model F - that's going to be pretty noisy.
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most authentic option, you buy a rock tumbler, almost identical sound.
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The memes in this thread are good, but I swear I was watching a sound test vid on youtube and the space bar sounded like a paint can... I can't seem to find it though. I'm mildly interested in this as well because I have a friend who is a spray paint artist and it would be cool to personalize a board for him
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Yeah ok it's one of Taeha's sound tests. It's retooled MX Blacks w/ a half POM plate but it doesn't sound as close as I remember
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The memes in this thread are good, but I swear I was watching a sound test vid on youtube and the space bar sounded like a paint can... I can't seem to find it though. I'm mildly interested in this as well because I have a friend who is a spray paint artist and it would be cool to personalize a board for him
honestly it's probably the effect of the guy having something on the table that rattles while he presses the space bar, and at the same time a cheap mic that makes everything sound middly, and ends up making the thing sound metallic.
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aristotles plate-mounted on an alum case in an alum board