MrBreaker Part 1 - Project Intro

[@gmcorreia]

Cheguei aqui pelo My Mate Vince !

[@MrKeebs]

Bem vindo! Tenho um canal em Português também kzbin.info

[@newtonapple8688]

Man, I can’t imagine the amount of work you put into this project to make it this polished, API & all. Great work!

[@MrKeebs]

Thank you so much, I am very very happy to start making it public

[@not_your_business666]

You my friend are a genius. This is one of the most important inventions in the keyboard history.

[@MrKeebs]

You're too kind, but really the genius here was Don, I just built upon shoulders of giants :-)

[@not_your_business666]

@@MrKeebs I don't know the story behind this contraption but this is something I always wanted. Keep up the good work!

[@theboard]

Its an honour to have helped bring this amazing piece of work into existence. Thank you for making this and sharing with the community. I'm 100% people will want the rest of the details because yours is way more functional and less prone to problems. For those who may want to try my original version, please watch and note the follow-up video first, as it may save you some heartache if you plan on using the same motor - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYmaZZSgab2Xes0

[@GRexerLee]

Been following the project on Instagram. Definitely interested to see more on how to get it set up and all. 👍

[@Kiyoboard]

As a programmer, I appreciate the amount of work went into this. Great work! Would definitely be interested in further videos on this!

[@_fatalruin]

Fantastic project. I would definitely like to see a build tutorial series. Thanks for the hard work and sharing with the community.

[@janglad9136]

This makes me wanna pick up electronics projects again. Impressive work!!! Would love to see more on this!! (Also as a side note, you know how these switches always get rated for x amount of presses? Is it actually a common thing to run into malfunctioning switches on vintage boards? I haven't heard of it at least).

[@MrKeebs]

The electronics part was one of the most satisfying challenges of the whole project. I'll record a video about it and hopefully it'll inspire people to work on something similar. About the vint boards failing, I've never heard anyone saying that switches stopped working like that.

[@swatermasysk]

This looks great. Very interested in seeing more details on how to build one myself (and also very willing to purchase a pre-made one)

[@HappyB0T]

Program, build, setup and testing are fantastic. Really shows how much time you spent improving and thinking about this project. Typing on my not broken in linears - 3 more weeks to go :|

[@tipfox9212]

Great job and video! I remember when printers where not affordable to the common home computer users, some enthusiasts built a hardware to use an electric typewriter as a printer. Which means every key of the typewriter had to be pressed by an electromagnet controlled by the computer. Very complex at those days, but nowadays (with 3D-printing, cheap microcontollers) it should be much easier ;-) Perhaps an idea to break-in a whole standard keyboard ?

[@johnyjoe2k]

The mighty MrKeebs has blessed us again! I was going to suggest using a pushrod with cam follower system to avoid wearing out the caps, but I think the lube and given that they are blanks makes this so much easier. This is very interesting. I had seen someone on Reddit post something like this with a custom rig he built using solenoids, but I think that would be more expensive since you need maybe 1 solenoid per switch or maybe if you use some kind of connecting rod a couple at once, but a single rotating motor with a cam is so much better.

[@MrKeebs]

Yeah hopefully this will be affordable and relatively easy to replicate - that's the hope at least. Thank you so much for the support

[@_IanOfEarth]

Will be watching this closely. Going to build my own copy of Don's project over the next few weeks as time allows here and this seems like a very logical next step. May have some questions to pick your brain as more parts come out based off of some thinking I've done on Don's project.

[@danielgrinemaer8415]

Definitely make it a KZbin series!

[@sattkbd8194]

This is a really cool project! Would like to make one of these myself.

[@MrKeebs]

Stay tuned for the next video, I'll be showing you exactly how you can build one!

[@gunjja13]

This is so so good!!! I missed to see content from you! How many presses you think, with this machine, are good to break in the switches?

[@MrKeebs]

Thank you

[@goldy24t]

When will the PCB generator be working again? Can you put up the old version again? I just used the switch placement function of it and did the PCB wiring myself.

[@D4VIDF]

Yes! please continue with this project! Also Nice beard !

[@MrKeebs]

Hahaha that's my quarantine beard :)

[@lovidore]

Hats off to you.

[@MrKeebs]

Thank you good sir!

[@easonyang5388]

Great video! Does anyone know what parts were used?

[@davidkowalewski243]

This is an awesome project! I have built a variation of the board pod cast machine and ran for many 8+ hours. Retooled cherry blacks still have a little bit of audible scratch to them. They are definately smoother then stock and I am sure lubing will help eliminate it further. I am curious did you have a similar outcome?

[@Donbros]

Wow switch breaker. Khail creams here they go or maybe it should be called cherry black to vintage black converter XD

[@MrKeebs]

Yeah!

[@samuelfungcl]

Hi, this is amazing! Any chance the STL files are available online too?

[@khongaibiecdi2454]

i love it, can i get 3d print files of it ? Thank you sir !

[@HoveKB]

Time to make NK creams usable!

[@MrKeebs]

Hell yeah!

[@Uthayaa]

Any updates on this? I'd to create one of my own.

[@muniz9046]

cara q projeto legal, ficou mt boa a ideia de otimizar o modelo original pra vários trilhos ao redor do rotor tava procurando um criador de conteúdo de teclado mecânico BR faz um tempo, eu sou novo na comunidade e tals e eu até hj n entendi mt bem pra q fazem isso com os switches, é pra reduzir a força da mola na exaustão ou só pra estatística mesmo?

[@keyboar9481]

é por que isso vai "polindo" o stem e os rails do switch para ele ficar mais liso

[@MrKeebs]

Hahaha normal, na verdade nem um nem outro - existem switches que só ficam bons depois de "amaciados", ou do que a gente chama de break in. E isso só acontece com o uso. Então essa máquina é prá dar uma amaciada no switch mesmo, deixando ele mais gostoso prá ser usado.

[@jae6515]

thats pretty cool! are you planning open sourcing the project?

[@MrKeebs]

Yes, the controller part is already open source but it will be 100% open!

[@MrKeebs]

Here's the controller repo - github.com/misterkeebs/switch-breaker-controller

[@MK472009]

Any problems with messed up leaves?

[@MrKeebs]

I must have done around 600 switches so far with the machine and I got one messed up leaf and I'm not even sure it was caused by the machine :)

[@keyboar9481]

e ai keebs, tu acha que uma versão completamente burra seria viavel? usando uma dremil ou furadeira como motor para baratear o projeto?

[@MrKeebs]

Eu acho que seria possível sim, vou liberar os arquivos 3D e se você quiser experimentar acho que vale a pena!

[@techmouse.]

So this doesn't test the switches individually? It only counts key presses? And all of the switches share the same line and it doesn't measure the time in between key press events, so it can't gauge if a key has failed? This design would make it impossible to measure when a key starts to deteriorate, send bounce presses, and more of that kind of thing. Each switch is going to break at a different rate and this can't measure that. At the very least there should be a counter for the time in between key presses to help determine when a key press even should have occurred but didn't. And another method for monitoring when a key press event occurred too soon, implying it's a bounce press from the last key press. The good news is you wouldn't need to physically change the design for that. You would just need to write the code for it and put a limit on how fast the motor can go, so the program can properly distinguish between bounce presses and normal key presses. So that's the good news.

[@PetrSedlacek]

This tool is meant to improve the smoothness of the switches by pressing them many many times. However, the switches definitely shouldn't break during the "breaking in" process - they are rated for millions of presses.

[@techmouse.]

@@PetrSedlacek Ohhh it's for breaking keys *_IN_* ... Well that's different then. That's an important piece of information I didn't have before. In that case, yes this would work just fine for that. 👍

[@RamaP94]

yes please tutorial

[@randotom7631]

Excuse my ignorance, but how is this useful?

[@Donbros]

Making creams and cherry black smooth :D

[@MrKeebs]

This machine is used to make switches smoother. There are a lot of excellent switches that come from the factory very scratchy, like Retooled Blacks or NK Creams. Usually it takes months to break them in with usage. The idea behind this contraption is to make that process faster.

[@randotom7631]

@@MrKeebs muito obrigado! Boa sorte com o projeto!