totoxraymond
Well-known member
Hi everyone,
I'm currently building a custom DAW controller based on the MidiBox project.
Everything is coming together nicely recently but there's one big obstacle still in front of me.
I need to label all the switches according to the function I assigned to them. There's about 200 switches so i can't remember all of them all the time (well i might, but it would be better to have nice labels on them anyway).
The switches in question Are Omron B3W-9010 series. They have a 12*12mm cap, which is nice. You can fit a small insert between the switch and the cap,but due to the construction of the switch, this insert would only be 7.4*7.4mm which is much smaller. Besides, those colored caps i choosed are not very transparent and it makes the label quite difficult to read, even for my young eyes.
So i was thinking about putting a label on top of those caps. This way i could use all the real estate i can and the label should be easy to read.
I was thinking the easiest way would be to make some sitckers for that, but maybe the durability would not be so good and i don't want sticky switches.
Then i thought about silkscreening them, but i know nothing about that process. I guess it's quite a learning curve but that's ok, i like the idea of learning a knew technique.
Has anybody here ever done that? I was thinking of buying a starter kit for silkcreen but i'm not sure that i can use any kind of ink. I'm not quite sure which kind of plastic these caps are made of...
And maybe someone has a better idea for printing nice labels on little pieces of plastic? I should say that my handwriting is pretty terrible.
Thanks!
Thomas
I'm currently building a custom DAW controller based on the MidiBox project.
Everything is coming together nicely recently but there's one big obstacle still in front of me.
I need to label all the switches according to the function I assigned to them. There's about 200 switches so i can't remember all of them all the time (well i might, but it would be better to have nice labels on them anyway).
The switches in question Are Omron B3W-9010 series. They have a 12*12mm cap, which is nice. You can fit a small insert between the switch and the cap,but due to the construction of the switch, this insert would only be 7.4*7.4mm which is much smaller. Besides, those colored caps i choosed are not very transparent and it makes the label quite difficult to read, even for my young eyes.
So i was thinking about putting a label on top of those caps. This way i could use all the real estate i can and the label should be easy to read.
I was thinking the easiest way would be to make some sitckers for that, but maybe the durability would not be so good and i don't want sticky switches.
Then i thought about silkscreening them, but i know nothing about that process. I guess it's quite a learning curve but that's ok, i like the idea of learning a knew technique.
Has anybody here ever done that? I was thinking of buying a starter kit for silkcreen but i'm not sure that i can use any kind of ink. I'm not quite sure which kind of plastic these caps are made of...
And maybe someone has a better idea for printing nice labels on little pieces of plastic? I should say that my handwriting is pretty terrible.
Thanks!
Thomas