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The making of an ita-keyboard, featuring the girls of Idol Master, is shown in this video. A rather unusual choice of itafication indeed…

The project took the maker 10 hours, and cost a rather modest ¥2,380.

Player 1


Nico.

It looks as though the lack of  characters on the keys is deliberate, as they can be added easily enough during the design process. The software used in the video is said to be Typing Mania 5.

You may have noticed that this is by the same person responsible for the Zero no Tsukaima ita-PC making-of video.

A similar effort is the Idol Master XXXbox



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    Comment by 8子
    07:16 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    FUCK YEAH!

    Comment by raikentb
    07:28 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Very impressive. I can't say I was ever really into customizing my PC like this though.

    Comment by iragedsohard
    15:06 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    This seems really tedious.....

    Comment by paul
    07:43 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    next up is the ita-speaker

    Comment by nanu
    07:58 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    What's most impressive is the effort, and that labor is what stops more people from trying this. That's over a hundred keys! Nevertheless I'm still encouraged to try this.

    I can attest for the i-Rocks KR-6110 keyboard he used. It is a very moddable keyboard, the same model I use.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:20 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    i want this i just need to know the materials that the maker used for the pictures

    Comment by Seravy
    08:38 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Nice but I prefer my figures. Keyboards get dirty from all that typing...

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:45 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    nice, he is using an Antec P150 PC case, which is all white. i should know cuz i used to own one but never looked that good = )

    Comment by Narcissist
    11:46 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I have the Antec Solo, pretty much P150 but with new better HDD air-hanging straps and black case with silver front. Really love it tbh, just the perfect size and with a Scythe Kama on the front it looks so stylish while still being discreet.

    It was a serious PITA to fit all the hardware in it though, since even though I have a powerful computer I wanted to cool it passive as much as possible. Not to mention all the HDD's for my terrabytes anime...

    Comment by e-imi
    09:44 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Awww~ I'd love to do this but my Kanji isn't that great, so can anyone help translate?

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:14 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    the only problem is reading the keys XD

    Comment by kratos
    11:38 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    it doesn't seems to be a probleme to him

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:42 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    It would be nice if somebody translated the instructions and put it on the wiki.

    Comment by Artefact
    11:47 11/01/2009 # ! Unusual

    This is a good idea - if anyone does I'll update the article (at least).

    I feel I must apologise for not providing a translation, but I can't really help it...

    Comment by metatron
    19:58 12/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    that would be awesome!

    Comment by Ace
    11:09 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    There's a typing game for Idolm@ster? I only know Typenist, for Miku. http://kanmisikou.net/typenist/

    Comment by Zelgadis4tw
    11:18 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    This is something I'd really like to do sometime considering most standard American keyboards don't convert to dvorak worth a damn. Sure the keymap is easy enough, but try to swap the individual keys around on the board and it just doesn't work, the keys are so wrong. It would also help restore some of the worn down keyboards we got too, whom their only problem is the paint on the keys has faded away. 20/10 find Artefact.

    Comment by kai
    12:48 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    anyone know what game hes playing?

    Comment by Rinfinite
    19:52 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I believe it's Typing Mania 5 Odyssey 5. As you can see it is written at the bottom.

    Comment by Rinfinite
    19:53 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Sorry, just Typing Mania 5 Odyssey.

    http://www.sightseekerstudio.com/yanmani/

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:06 30/06/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    need a list of materials

    Comment by Tommy
    13:09 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    This is kinda creative creating these kind if keyboard. I never seem one of these before.

    Comment by Jin Stevens
    14:05 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Gah, the case I can understand. No way I'd do the keyboard. That looks excruciating. And I'm not that patient.

    Comment by Icy-nee-san
    15:05 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    God damnit... I wanna do this but i dont have any of the things that will let me make it D:

    Comment by Keigami
    15:24 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Wanna see a laptop done next!

    Comment by firaku
    20:32 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    What would we do about back light keyboards if we so choose to use them?

    Still a great idea that I will be trying out.

    Comment by burit-chan
    20:49 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    kawe tok pahe gapo, ejas subtitle wes.

    Comment by Aladar
    21:26 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Video not found =3=

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:28 11/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Video isn't working :(

    Comment by Artefact
    02:17 12/01/2009 # ! Ironic

    Please be slightly patient when this happens - they were only down for under five minutes...

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:32 12/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    wow...this guy is so awesome. I wonder if he'll go into a customizing PCs for customers? I'd bet he'd make a ton.

    Comment by Jarmel
    01:44 02/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I would pay for it.

    Comment by Anonymous
    20:44 12/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I was laughing when the guy has an idea of putting a mirror and Idol Master girl on the PC case, so he can see his own reflection with the girl.

    Brilliant!

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:02 13/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    So has anyone tried this yet? I was tracing the outline of my keyboard in illustrator and it worked horribly.

    Comment by H8gwb
    14:31 31/01/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's not the cost that concerns me, but the incredable amount of effort and skill that's involved that prevents me from trying this.

    Although, I must admit, that keyboard's REALLY appealing and temporarily overloaded my anti-fap resevoirs.

    Kudos for using the long version of "Go My Way" in the vid.

    Comment by TsundereWorks
    11:47 16/06/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    What's amazing is how he actually managed to get everything measured exactly right. I obsess over these things, but I probably couldn't pull that off.

    Six hours seems like a fast time.

    Comment by ayu-kun
    22:24 29/06/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I did this with my PSP, this article just gave me more ideas on where to do this ^_^

    the cutting part IS a tedious task. Unless of course you have a computer-guided laser cutting machine that uses illustrator or some other vector software to cut ^_^

    here's a pic of my psp and my ipod shuffle that was ita-skinned

    http://biggyeyes.designplusph.com/images/upload/quickskin/tpc/psp_01.jpg

    http://biggyeyes.designplusph.com/images/upload/quickskin/tpc/psp_02.jpg

    Comment by TehMikuruSlave
    09:03 30/06/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    So awesome! Care to explain how it was made?

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:33 30/06/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    How do you make the template if you dont have a copy machine

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