#61

It works great!!! I tried my fastest typing and no dropped key strokes!
Thanks so much for this @scanner_darkly , working perfectly with Vortex Race 3.

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#62

awesome, thanks for confirming!

#63

now n=2: the new f/w works great with my vortex race 3! is it the same tweak as your modified main.c above?

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#64

great!

and yeah, it’s the same fix as in the main.c posted above.

#65

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I really like using my Unicomp with its buckling spring switches, the only downside is, it doubles the size of gear I need to carry to performances. Yet still, I consider bringing the keyboard alongside with me because I find the loud click-clacking noise of the keyboard as a beautiful accent amidst quiet moments of a performance.

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#66

Heyo, I’m looking for recommendations on a compact mechanical keyboard for use with the Teletype. The Happy Hacking boards are some that I like (and I better for how much they cost…) but they lack the function keys which I’m finding to be too handy to go without. The world is flooded with unicorn colored rave baby keyboards now that they’re popular with the gaming crowd and it makes the search for something with a more laid back look rather tedious :slight_smile:

I may just punt on the search and grab a wired apple keyboard, I don’t mind those and they’re nice and small…

#67

Vortex Core is about as compact as you can go. I know a few people use them for Teletype. I have one but don’t have Teletype so may be parting with it soon if you’re interested.

Moving up a size for me would be something like the Vortex Pok3r.

up from there would be the Race 3

or even Tab 90. Technically compact but basically just a full keyboard will all the spaces removed.

Edit: obviously that’s all just one manufacturer, the website I linked allows you to filter by size and what not, so there are more affordable options and crazy more expensive options.

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#68

Fantastic website, thanks for sharing! Looks like they have quite a few models and give the option to choose the switches in them which is something I’d appreciate!

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#69

For my Teletype, I got a cheap (price-wise) but very nice Magicforce 68, which does not have F keys but has proper arrows and numbers, looks good and does not have backlighting (which makes my Teletype crash, newer ones from the latest batch should be immune to that).

You need a key combo (Fn + number) for the F keys. which is fine but not really a one hand solution if you want to trigger scripts while playing something at the same time.

These are really cheap but work really well for me. Note that only the version with Outemu switches does not have backlighting,

Assuming you’re in the US, they’re $40 on amazon (I bought mine for the same price in Japan) :

If you want compact but with F keys the Vortex Race 3 seems like one of the best options for Teletype.

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#70

I like the Preonic, but the Planck is smaller.

Also the Minivan looks good if you’re not into ortho layout.

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#71

Anyone have any luck with an anne pro 2? I have one, but i haven’t been able to get it to work with the TT.

#72

I recently bought a red dragon K552 ten-keyless mechanical keyboard to go with my teletype. Features that were important to me:

  • Backlight
  • Compact, but with F-keys
  • Mechanical
  • Cheap

I totally love it, the only downside is that the USB cable doesn’t come off, thinking about getting a second one for live usage that allows the USB cable to come off

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#73

Hi,

Strange question but I just purchased a black hole sub_six case to house my ER-301 and teletype ecosystem. I’m looking for a keyboard that I can fit in the lid of the case. The internal measurement of the lid is 10" x 10.5". Mechanical is much preferred!

Currently using an old spare Deck 82 from about 9 years ago.


At 12" it’s too long. The Deck, even with LEDs on every key, works fine with older teletypes. Maybe because they state they drive them at 5.25mA maximum?

#74

I’ve just checked these out and decided to pcik one up too.

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#75

Has anyone else ever been obsessed with the idea of a 128-key ortholinear keyboard with dual typing / grid modes?

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#76

Yes, I have wondered if it would be possible to add a “grid as keyboard” mode to the teletype firmware so that if the grid was plugged in it could be used to type. There’d need to be some way of switching modes either with the front panel button on the teletype or a key combo on the grid I suppose. It would be pretty great though, wouldn’t it?

#77

given how weird it would be to learn to touch type on a grid, i would suggest that such a mode should work by assigning each OP to a single keypress + a top row for numbers.
Eventually this mode could use only a 64 square so on 128 grids it would be next to the grid control mode. Actually it should be an extension of this mode.
Might need some kind of “labeled overlay” to learn, but could be great once mastered.

(But then, as my mechanical keyboard from the office doesn’t seem to work with Teletype, i would have no reason to buy another model ^^).

#78

What about a microcontroller between the grid and host which speaks osc? Then you could use a DPDT switch to toggle between “serial pass-through” mode and “interpret grid osc, send HID output” mode.

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#79

Good plan! I suspect the teensy could do this, right? (Are there any that have two usb outputs? Would be neat to also be able to use it as a switch to run an ansible and a teletype too…)

#80

Nope. This is “USB Host” and the Teensy 3.6 and 4 have this, but only one host port. Beyond that requires a hub - but you could use an external usb hub.