Kiibohd Party - San Francisco Bay Area

[meiosis]

Mostly moved in now, just slowly acquiring furniture at this point

My living room floor is covered in keyboards waiting for more Uline boxes to come in

If you need places to try for food let me know . I guess the only one in your immediate area would be Boiling Crab, if you like asian food theres everything within 20 minutes .


I might get my lz-se soon ._.

[blueSmoke]

I would attend -keyboards... hell I have one somewhat modded one.

love keyboards & beer combo.

[codyeatworld]

Well I was just planing on bringing mine incase anybody wanted to see them.
I should be in town and able to attend! Is there a list of whos attending?

Mostly moved in now, just slowly acquiring furniture at this point

My living room floor is covered in keyboards waiting for more Uline boxes to come in

If you need places to try for food let me know . I guess the only one in your immediate area would be Boiling Crab, if you like asian food theres everything within 20 minutes .


I might get my lz-se soon ._.

the boiling crab is always PACKED.

[cgbuen]

I'll be there for the second half.. hope that'll be alright!

[HaaTa]

Shouldn't be a problem, though you'll miss a bunch of my presentation.

[HaaTa]

Reminder.

First one is happening today!

[blueSmoke]

For those that don't have the Techshop address, here it is:

Address: 300 S 2nd St, San Jose, CA 95113
Phone:(408) 916-4144
Techshop Saturday hours 9:00 am–12:00 am
Keybohd hours: 1 pm-4pm

I know... google has it, but got to add a Saturday post...

See ya there

[HaaTa]

I'll be there a bit early setting things up. If you get there early, feel free to ask for a TechShop tour (the place is really cool).
Officially the booking starts at 1 PM and ends at 5 PM actually.

From the schedule it seems no one else has booked the room, so being early/tardy shouldn't be a problem.

Drinks/food afterwards depending on interest

[CPTBadAss]

POST.
MANY.
PICTURES.

Seriously, I'm excited! Let's see everyone's wonderful faces, presentations, and keyboards

[vivalarevolución]

Indianapolis now has direct flights to San Fran.  I'll make the next one, as long as somebody pays for my flight.

[HaaTa]

Unfortunately, less crazy photographers than usual. But some photos will make it up. Mostly of keyboards

Attendance
HaaTa (of course )
Acantha
bluesmoke
DamienG
jwaz
sth
cgbuen

Pics of my rare keyboards that I showed off (dismantled 1, didn't have time for 2 of them) will show up over the next week or so.
Slides

Current target price of the keyboard project is around $300, but this may change. Mostly on the case chosen (ideas? expertise?).
Not sure on how many will be made, probably just over 100. The project hinges mostly on the case, everything else there is expertise to get it done quickly.
Proceeds go to Kiibohd activities (food? drinks? keyboards? keycaps? mods? or whatever the group decides to spend it on).
I have an EE friend who has volunteered to do the PCB, I'll coordinate stuff with him.

Consensus is the Alps Reed Switches have the best sliders ever, virtually no friction. And no you haven't seen one before. Pics sometime this week.

More consensus, unless we get a bunch more people, live casting didn't interest the group. If someone comes and has the equipment, we can do it. I was mostly talking/presenting for much of the time, but it was a pretty casual bunch of presentations  )


Location of the next one is still undecided, but may be closer to SF. The TechShop conference room worked out awesomely. I'll have more rare keyboards to bring,
I'll start a new thread for the next one. All are welcome You don't even have to bring keyboards

[acantha]

Great meetup! Met a bunch of cool people and saw some of HaaTa's super cool collection. Looking forward to future meetings. I'll post some pictures and and a more detailed writeup later tonight.

[Game Theory]

HaaTa’s Custom Keyboard Switch!! 

[DamienG]

A few pics from today's meet (as well as some older ones from the DSA Retro party)

https://plus.google.com/photos/110321883146291924112/albums/5921062126287698193

Just realized I forgot to take pics of my own Acorn Electron keyboard today.

Thanks HaaTa for organizing. 

[)amien

[cgbuen]

Very cool stuff from HaaTa.. really confusing to figure out how to put the caps back onto these weird layouts haha. And I was also pleasantly surprised by blueSmoke's clicky Space Invaders too.

Thanks again for organizing.. looking forward to the next!

[mkawa]

the height meter with the strain gauge mounting is vedy good, but i want it to measure in situ damnit!



please post as many measurements as you can while you have the strain gauge. those things are NOT CHEAP (and often precise but not accurate), but if 002's is accurate it can make up for the lack of sample points. it looks like it's also hand-actuated? so no frequency measurements

in the long run i'd like to get the design and build of electric fingers off the ground so that we can gather a ****ton of data on switch batches and board batches. but any measurement is better than no measurement.

[HaaTa]

This is more medium term, I actually have a cheaper alternative in mind for a year or two down the road that's in my list of projects, but requires me to dedicate a fair amount of time.

On the Deskthority thread, there was a suggestion to build a stand as it can be done much more cheaply. I'm spread pretty thin already, but if anyone wants to work with me on it I'd be up to helping out/attempting to build it.
At this point I probably have the largest collection of switches in the keyboard community (probably not even close to largest collection though ), so I really want something that can reliably characterize keyboard switches.

I'm on IRC if anyone wants to chat about this. I'm also very interested in pretty UI's for force curve visualization for any of you web devs. Both interactive and SVG.

OO2's gauge is a proper Imada force gauge, so it has everything needed to mount it. I already wrote software to pull in the data (and made some cables).

[mkawa]

once you have a lot of data there are tons and tons of options for visualizing. the problem is gathering data. no matter what you do you need a pressure sensor or strain gauge of sime kind and these are, like thermocouples, just a huge pain in the butt to make precise within reasonable tolerances.once we get design and manufacture of something "good enough" off the ground, we'll get enough data together to brute force our way through imprecision but yah it's non-trivial to get there and there a lot of other things to do

[HaaTa]

Just bought an arbor press today at HSC and some stepper motors, now to hack something together

To me the big problem for me has always been the "work holding" as machine shops call it. The sensors I can do