[sdiy] What are these buttons?

[Paul Burns]

Absolutely .. they have to be pressed ...

Regards

Paul

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Sent: 04 May 2011 18:26
To: Tim Ressel
Cc: Synth-Diy
Subject: Re: [sdiy] What are these buttons?

When I owned a tenori-on, the buttons definitely needed to be pressed to
activate.  it was a light touch but seemed to be a physical switch/button of
some sort.  I am only reporting on my own memory, and have no idea how the
device works internally.

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Tim Ressel <madhun2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> O ho!  So that is what they are up to!  I've never played with one so 
> I had no idea they were not buttons at all. Thanks a bunch!
>
> --TimR
>
>
>
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> From: "Speth, John" <John.Speth at coherent.com>
> To: Synth-Diy <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Sent: Wed, May 4, 2011 9:24:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] What are these buttons?
>
>> I just saw the Tenori-On and am wondering what those buttons are?
>> I'd like to
>> use some lighted buttons in a project but the ones I have seen are 
>> very expensive.
>
> I wondered about the Tenori-on too.  It's been discussed here before.  
> At that time I collected two very relevant PDFs about the technology.  
> You can find them temporarily at this dropbox:
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23053666/nime2006_172.pdf
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23053666/nime2006_342.pdf
>
> LEDs have a lesser known function as crude photo detectors when they 
> are reverse biased.  Capacitance is a function of light energy.  I'm 
> sure there are many ways to measure capacitance but a really simple 
> way is to do it as described in this EDN article:
>
> http://www.edn.com/article/462289-LED_senses_and_displays_ambient_ligh
> t_intensity.php
>
>
> The beauty of using an LED as a photo sensor is that you can multiplex 
> the detect function with the illumination function and emit light with 
> it when you're not measuring its capacitance.  I've experimented with 
> the method described in the EDN article.  It works.  I didn't attempt 
> the illumination multiplexing idea but I think it's feasible.
>
> It sure looks like the Tenori-on uses those methods to do its tricks.  
> It's a cool use of dirt cheap LEDs.  I suppose the cost challenge 
> becomes obvious when you consider how to drive 256 LEDs faster than 
> human eye persistence and detect touches rapidly enough using those same
LEDs.
>
> JJS
>
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