After going to the local green grocer yesterday and seeing there till/scales, I thought that the keyboards that are used on POS systems would be perfect for large array of buttons on a MB. Most of them have clear plastic caps which can be removed to put labels underneath.
So I set about look on ebay for a secondhand one to experiment with. I chose this one:
From my research it seems that it will connect to a standard AT (5 pin DIN) connector.
By the looks of the keyboard I should easly be able to remove the metal enclosure that houses the Keyboard it self and mount that on a panel with a few screws.
I’m want to use this in a rackmount unit with the trackball I got off ebay…this is all working towards an intergrated MB/PC (I’de love to use a Mac Mini) for Gigging.
After going to the local green grocer yesterday and seeing there till/scales, I thought that the keyboards that are used on POS systems would be perfect for large array of buttons on a MB. Most of them have clear plastic caps which can be removed to put labels underneath.
… make shure to keep the electronics of the POS keyboard! I use it to map different keyboard shortcuts of functions not available by the host’s midi-implementation as “one-button”-commands (instead of always pressing: ctr+C, ctrl+V etc.)
I bought one on ebay just a few days ago as a result of seeing this thread. I think I will keep it to do the keyboard shortcut thing instead of setting it up as an mbox module. I use a PC whn I play live, so I will look into what can be produced. How did you get on with the original mod? Also. forget the grocery stores. Filling station keyboards have leds built into the keys.
