ANIMATA......MAX......KEYBOARD......

This time, we are making animations, and also controlling them. Using Animate to make animation is not that hard, but Max is tricky. The Max language is very hard for me to understand, like "bang", actually it's not real a "bang", it's a sort of action signal. I need to spend more time to learn.



The most interesting part is to hack a keyboard. For this purpose, I bought a brand new keyboard USB keyboard, because I thought for the electronic equipment, it's always the newer the better. But I was wrong, after I disassembled the keyboard, I found the circuit board was so tiny, therefore the connectors was so tiny, I think it was the tiniest in the class. It was so difficult for me to solder the wires onto the board, I spent about 3 hours in the Electronic Lab, and just soldered 5 pieces of wires onto the circuit board. Fortunately, I found there were very very tiny holes beside every holes. In intend to find wires can fit the holes, I ripped a old USB wire, and found the wire can fit the hole. That was much easier then soldering. To separate the wires, I wrapped them with some tapes and number. Then I tested it on my computer, and it worked so well.



For tomorrow, I need to put them into a box, and add some switches, to make a controller.