Calling All Coders!

[snekiam]

Turns out the DLL file I was using was corrupt in some way. I replaced it with the one provided by one of the profiles downloaded, and now everything seems to work fine.

[CMBrandon]

That's great! Share a link once it's uploaded so others can see what you created.

[team-4480]

We created four different animations for our Masterkeys Pro M White.


The first one we created was a Keyboard alarm where you input how often you want to be reminded to get up and stretch(I personally use 60 minutes) and then it will flash every x minutes to remind you to get up out of your chair.


The next animation was what I call the Hadron Collider. This animation has two "atoms" flying towards each other until they explode. The explosion is bright where the two atoms meet, but the brightness goes down the farther away the explosion is.


The third animation we made was my personal favorite and it took by far the longest to make. What we did was we had the keyboard light up the letters of the alphabet in order with the beat of the Alphabet song. The Alphabet song actually plays as it does it! We even did the "Now, I know my ABCs. Next time, won't you sing with me?" where it lights up each word according to the beat.


Finally, we made one called Bouncy Ball where the "Ball" bounces around on the keyboard with the LED's behind it leaving a lighter and lighter trail.

If you want to download them, just go to http://maker.coolermaster.com/custom-lighting/ and scroll down to the Masterkeys Pro M White section!

Overall, we really enjoyed making these animations. The programming and SDK setup wasn't hard. I just have to thank Cooler Master and CMBrandon for giving us this opportunity.

[team-4480]

I just received a PM from a person wanting the code to know how we did it. Here is the Github page I made for it. There is a big disclaimer that goes with it. I just learned the basics of C++ for this project and most likely the code quality isn't the best because of my inexperience with C++. However, the code does work which is what matters to me the most.

[CMBrandon]

We were all super impressed with the ABC song. Makes us think that with enough time we can have some pretty sick light shows going on with some sweet beats.

[snekiam]

Is there a way in the SDK to determine which keys have been pressed by the (ideally the mapping of the key, ie for ESC 0,0)

[team-4480]

Originally Posted by snekiam

Is there a way in the SDK to determine which keys have been pressed by the (ideally the mapping of the key, ie for ESC 0,0)

No, but since the program is running on the computer, not the keyboard, you could use something like this.You would then just make an array of keys and their corresponding row and column.

[Thad House]

Anyone know who I would contact at CM regarding issues internally in the library? I've been attempting to get wrappers for the library in both C# and Java for a project, and there are internal issue with the provided DLL in the SDK that are making this harder then it should be, mostly involving shutdown logic and crashes on shutdown.

[CMBrandon]

Send me an email and be as specific as possible, I will forward it to the software team.

brandon_kovacic@coolermaster.com