[sdiy] Ensoniq patent, was: distance meter for keyboard, was: Where to get special white keys?

[ChristianH]

On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:31:06 -0700 Ian Fritz <ijfritz at comcast.net> wrote:

> At 11:52 PM 3/1/2009, Simon Brouwer wrote:
> 
> >Have you looked at the spec sheet on that page? Although not particularly 
> >linear, these appear to be analog sensors.
> 
> Ooops!  Right you are.  I got confused by the Futurlec description.  These 
> might be worth looking into further.  One thing to be careful about is 
> whether they have temperature compensation.
> 
> Ian 


I don't know about temperature characteristics in this case, but a
simple offset could be compensated by measuring the all-notes-off values.

If there *is* an additional key contact, that is.

Christian