We like huge keyboards and we can’t lie, and we’ve seen some fairly huge keyboards through the years. However this one — this one might be the most important working board that anybody has ever seen. [RKade] and [Kristine] got down to make the world’s largest keyboard by Guinness requirements – and at 16 ft lengthy, you’d assume they might be a shoe-in for the world file. Extra on that later.
As you might need discovered, what’s taking place right here is that every large key actuates what we hope is a Cherry-brand lever swap that’s wired to the pads of a normal-sized keyboard PCB. As soon as they designed the structure, they decided that there have been completely no current business containers that, when inverted, would match the specified dimensions, in order that they discovered that it will take 350 items of cardboard to make 70 5-sided keycaps and started working.
[RKade] encountered a couple of issues with the body construct — largely warped boards and shrunken holes the place every of the 70 keys mount. After the factor was all wired up (cleverly, we’d add, with Ethernet cable pairs), [RKade] rebuilt all the body out of three-layers of particle board.
By the best way, Guinness rejected the appliance, citing that it should be a precise duplicate of an current keyboard, and it should be constructed to business/skilled requirements. In addition they contradict themselves, returning no search outcomes for greatest keyboard, however supply upon beginning a world file software that there’s a record-holding keyboard on file in any case, and it’s 8 ft (2.4 m) lengthy. It’s not the concrete Russian keyboard, which is non-functional, however we marvel if it is perhaps the Razer from CES 2018 that makes use of Kailh Massive Switches.
As soon as the keyboard was up and operating, [RKade] and [Kristine] duke it out over a recreation of Typing Assault, the place the loser has to kind all of the lyrics to “By no means Gonna Give You Up” on the enormous keyboard. Test it out after the break.
Through KBD #92