[sdiy] Piezo keyboard

[Dave Magnuson]

as you were saying:  bodies of these switches are metal.   You'd just need 
to electrically isolate each switch body with a plastic spacer.   Perhaps 
you could mount all the switches on a plastic sheet, then mount the plastic 
sheet beneath your aluminum panel.  Make sure the holes in the aluminum are 
sufficiently large so the panel doesn't touch the edge of the switch.

Of course if you used clear platic, you could light the plastic with LEDs 
and have an illuminated halo around each button.   You could do the same 
mounting system for all of the faceplate components for a really nice 
look.   How's that for (visual) feature creep  :)

Dave

At 02:39 AM 8/21/04, Peter Grenader wrote:

>john mahoney wrote:
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> > aluminum foil tape used for ductwork -- it's a form of duct tape, but not
> > the wrinkly plastic type). You could then have capacitive touch switches to
> > trigger the keypresses, with the piezo pressure for aftertouch.
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>Can't do that!  These things look like museum pieces.  I couldn't live with
>myself If I did that.  Here's a picture:
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>http://www.buzzclick-music.com/piezo.jpg
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>See what I mean? Now, imagine those mounted into clear anodized aluminum
>with just those shallow disks sticking up a 1/16 th.  Too cool.
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>Anyway, they are as aluminum as aluminum foil will ever be.  I could always
>polish off their anodize and have the same scenario as the foil.
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>- P
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