new to teletype and i’ve been thinking a lot about keyboards in the brief time we’ve been just friends.
- the included keyboard is fine
- have a little mini keyboard, the ones for rpi with a dongly and a little crummy trackpad. they’re tiny and work as you’d expect. with teletype, the main benefit (built in mouse) doesn’t matter, so
- found a cheapo mechanical with a USB dongle instead of bluetooth. there’s not much in this “consumer demographic”, all the actually cool wireless keyboards are bluetooth. that’s on the way
- iv’e already been trying to find the right qmk keyboard for a long time and keep bailing. teletype has increased the urgency of this dramatically. the thing with qmk is it’s extremely customizable (if not user-friendly). the more important thing with qmk to me, is that you can apparently do straight up midi https://beta.docs.qmk.fm/developing-qmk/qmk-internals-in-progress/internals_midi_device
and then there’s at least one analog mechanical keyboard https://wooting.io/wootingone
the perfect mechanical keyboard does not exist, but it’s nice to know that all the pieces are laying around,
in case anyone wanted to make a velocity sensitive midi controller that uses mechanical keyboard keys.
velocity aside, I’m quite interested in the possibilities of a qmk keyboard with teletype. automating the keyboard could have interesting results, but seems like you could also set things up to act a bit like a grids. also, some of the easier to actually get a hold of qmk boards are ortholinear, which seems like an OK layout for a homemade grids.
Anyway, hi, that’s my dump, any of ya’ll bonked teletype and qmk together? or have any musically fruitful luck with using any kind of programmable keyboard with teletype?
