Interface Development
So… I dove into my interface development tonight and pretty much finished. I now have a wooden box with 16 different momentary switches wired to a keyboard circuit board (if that makes sense).
Each switch produces a different letter/symbol. These 16 letters will be used in processing, each is unique so they can all bring up the different frames in the font identification application. Take a look at the photos below:
First, I tried soldering directly to the board. That turned out to be a mess. I used hot glue instead, it doesn’t conduct electricity.
The pile of buttons.
I started to plug the wire directly into these slots but eventually realize attaching the wire directly to the circuit board would be better. It’s more permanent.
Here, the wires are directly on the board.
The buttons are all wired up and glued to the box.
Here’s the wiring. It’s a mess, but it’s awesome.
Voila! Now these 16 buttons each create a unique character for me to implement in my program. Interface–built.
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