Update: keypad sensitivity fixed
After some back and forth and a quick email to help@monome, I decided to glue little circles of aluminum foil to the pills. The results are (for now) fantastic! My research tells me it’s possible the foil won’t stay conductive for longer than a few months, but let’s see what happens and I’ll report back.
This is just dollar store aluminum foil, it was dirt cheap, and actually feels thinner than the name brand stuff at the grocery store which I think is a good thing for this.
I used a standard 6mm hole punch from Walmart ($3CAD) and a 10mm punch to cut around the holes to make the donut shape.
I used dollar store pva glue that came in a spray bottle, but I ended up spraying some onto a paper plate and dipping the foil pieces in before affixing to the pills. It seems to be holding up very well, and hopefully I made life easier in the future if I come back to this.
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As I illustrate in the video below, I’ve got the whole thing together but I noticed I had to push quite hard to get any response out of the buttons. I disassembled, cleaned with alcohol, sanded pads, washed them, put back together…if I just keep pressing the button over and over again it’s almost as if it starts to “wake up” and now I’ve got about 2 dozen buttons feeling close to “normal” using this technique…
2010 Monome Kit Action
Just wondering… am I missing something? Should I splurge on new pads? It’s also possible that my enclosure just wasn’t built with enough precision, which is why I bring up the alignment of pads vs pcb. Did I screw up?
