Finally got a SIMPLE working keyboard (Carry-on Folding Piano) with battery and speaker and simple headphone out jack. Actually folds up. $60 like new/refurb on amazon but usually $99
I got this GREAT Carry-on Portable Piano after i had to make a return and had credit after I got a bad midi bluetooth keyboard....returned it and got this instead and am really happy... because its usually 100 bucks but i got it for 60 used like new and its perfect. I didnt even need foldup but now i cant imagine not having it since its just a beginner keybaord to practice on.
Folds up into this
Finally something i can just bring around and have as a working keyboard. I mean it may have more keys than i even need but its like a full size piano...most keybaords dont even have this. And has plenty of settings and drum machine crap. Im just glad it has a battery speaker and line out to connect my bose bluetooth speaker. I can also use a 5 dollar bluetooth headphone adapter and make it bluetooth if i wanted a delay lol probly will actually be faster than terrible midi bluetooth lol fuck that!
This thing is great and maybe in a month ill do a review
But so far im very happy and like how i can unfold it on a bed. I may 3d print a little clip on stand thing to keep it more stiff as its meant to just be on a table lol and im always trying to put stuff on beds
It is actually cool how in nature this will just kinda conform to whatever rocks your sitting on almost like the foldable keyboards...but this is better more stuff feels like a real keyboard.
Got it for 60 bucks used like new instead of normal 99 dollar price
Id post an amazon link but im not desperate to drive sales for them and you can look it up and maybe buy it from them officially altho sometimes they make more off an aamzon sale just from saving money shipping but i hate amazon for allowing so many scams and empty packages to be fulfilled ..
.but whatever . Well decentralize amazon one day. Id rather use aliexpress or temu anyway. Temu just needs to quit with the stupid prize wheel crap in the mobile app
link is just googling a Carry-on folding piano on amazon or wherever ebay type marketplace youd like to find this on. But this brand is a win for me! You can tell they definitly wanted to make a FULL sized PIANO not just a keyboard... You can tell it was made to make a musician smile ESPECIALLY getting it at used like new open package for $60 instead of $100, its the PERFECT price break point, makes it pyschologically feel not too good to be true liek $40 or $50 but believable and impressive, like we deserve this technology by now honestly type of feeling, and we do. With how cheap the esp32s and 3d printed cases are i feel people could make their own but Im glad someone else took care of that.
of course REAL REAL musicians wont REALLy smile more thana smirk of "COOL toy, almost perfect" but maybe no cigar because of how shallow the keys are, and the loud sound they make lol but you arent supposed to listen to that sound, and it still sounds AMAZING plugged into a bluetooth or regular speaker (with just a headphone male to male cord not actual bluetooth but does have midi out etc and usbc)
anyway 5 stars lol. also i have NOT found anything cheaper for this size, andi was ready to get one 1/4th the size lol but im glad i got a full piano size keybaord to actually practice.
ALSO who am i kiding? The keys have to be that shallow of a push because it has to fold and it REALLy is perfect, i even wanna 3d print extra cases to help stabilize it when opened, and to protect some of the exposed but wrapped wires that HAVE to bend on the underside, it is a NEAT little system, the whole thing folds VERY freely, but its VERY THIN and folds up to a VERY small package that fits in the carrying case, and it is like something taking advantage of modern boards batteries usbc, had headphone port, its just really nice, and has liek 200 presets and a simple drum machine thing etc.
if anyone knows of any other little music devices liek this, actual playable electronic instruments liek this but in the $40 to $100 range please post it! I was thinking of taking a printed practice trumpet buttons, and adding an esp32 3 buttons speaker and battery to have a $20 portable trumpet practice toy
nice havent even paid attention, i was lookin for replies to upvote and manually tip, ya know i really just want a browser plugin that lets me add tips with a button like peakd has but on hive blog
i bet i could use ai to tear apart hive.blog line of code by line of code! the ai could be made to write hive blog posts detailing how it can modify itself, man this could get erally cool for hive
hive needs a way to fork itself, or do its own hardfpork updates in a golos.id style 'comitee" dao thing... so if hive proposal system had extra features, proposals lite, light proposals or "extra feature lite" proposals would allow each hive proposal post to be posted into a SECONDARY community proposal system, where you only pay 0.1 hbd or 0.1 hive or custom amount of hive or hive engine token (BTW we do need some sort of layer 1 consensus abouty Layer 1 hive engine tokens that everyone on hive is ok with adopting, something similar that finishes what SMTs were supposed to do, something you can create a token with using just the hive blog / communities web site section, with buttons for creating the token etc, i mean hive engine did so much on a third party side chain, its so quasi psuedo, i dunno, we all are able to trust @aggroed more than a truley decentralized system, and why not? lol he is a witness after all.
but i just wish it was all "layer 1" or whatever... know what im saying? Is it really obsolete to even want this anymore? Are SMTs unecisary and have the idea of hive engines been redefined too much to go back to resurecting "Smart Media Tokens" ? or isnt theer still layer 1 steem code for that? or whats the dealio? I feel like theres a huge gap in the stories of steem, and eos, like theres so much unfinished work by Dan Larimer and Ned Scott and even Justin Sun has a pile of broken steem promises.... i mean also look at Dlive... so many broken dreams just glued together to make something completely different from what it was supposed to be. no one even knows DLIVE was launched with "secret" hype at STEEMfest, and i remember using a steem keychain to login
So many things steem and eos and the dpos world was supposed to have. @dan larimer even said we had.... that he had fucking all of steem loaded into voice.com when that was finally out, (before it was shut down and reset as a stupid luxury nft site, i put some shit for sale theer never made any sales tho, made more sales on hive, proton or even wax lol honestly i sold more nfts on proton than anything else, kinda blew my mind. like maybe 500 bucks from proton? maybe a few hundred from hive? few bucks from wax, proton had like people willing to buy all my admittedly ai generated nft artwork. i also like offering printed out versions when i can....
anyway the nft point is irrellevant just wanted to add that lol
hive just feels like its stuck in some sort of economy mud and needs the acid or solvent of hardcore largescale user signups tp0 eat away at the stagnation, you know... get long time steem (now hive) users to get BACK to BUYING lots of hive? That only happesn if it can be pushed back up to$1 or at least 50 cents in liek a day like its gotta PUMP sio people see tehers a chance. Gotta go to like $3 again, to its all time high,. but neds to go BEYOND STEEMs $8 ATH at $20BTC, we should be 5-6 times that number with $100 to $100K BTC price? so yeah 5x that $8 number... hive should be $40 with $100k BTC! CRAZZZY to not Expect hive to be higher with BTC so high! Steem used to feel more plugged ina nd coupled to BTC. it was so important lol and Koreans! I think wqe are LACKING @kingscrown 's magic South korean DPOS investors, same folks who were pumping EOS to 20 billion dollar marketcaps when it came out, i was lucky to have gotten into EOS at 50 cents to watch it got o $20, should have sold that 1000 eos i had tho, sheeeet. huge regret, thatl; never go back up
dont make me believe the same about hive. Oh I know hive HAS to eventually pump, tho, riiiight? Its just TAKINg a while because its so organic? lol it REALLY needs more front ends and users tho. it doesnt FEEL as "BIG" as steem, and steemit, does it? I KNOW theers less active users, but i KNOPW that can all change in a day and hive could gain a certain type of conservative user interested inc ensorship resistance, maybe even scrambled private posts, to avoid otehr hiev whale downvotes , but we will needto gather political peopel from all the places people post to avoid censorship, show trhem hive and how they can not only post content FOREVER< without being banned BUT ALSO get PAID, and THAT will be the big deal
BUT WE NEED THOSE SMTs so people can create a hive token for a hive community with 1 click using a really easy wizard as easy as https://pump.fun makes it to pay $3 to create a Solana cryptocurrency. Hive engine should basically be free for peopel with just 100HP would bne fine, 200 if u think thats too little of a minimum requirement. I bet theres plenty of resource credits to pay for a custom hive token creation for users who have accumulated a few hundred Hivepower, more things should be free for peopel with HP, and we really need more lotteries, gambling etc but small time stuff, built into the network, and we need to use memo keys for private messages somehow easier , just well, nevermind you all know this
i could go on foerever but i need to go on an audio podcast to really explain my unique perspectiveof HOW i can SEE these DPOS dapps ACTUALLY working with big companies and giovernments and local cities to actually bring jobs and positive social networking HELPFUL social media, to millions of americans and people in other countries..... hive is also just teh ULTIMATE backup one world currency system. we take it for granted ... with Bitcoin behind it structurally, hive currency and hbd also , and the hive engine tokens , all combine to form this amoprhious blob of reactive smart finance, reacting with a school of human users, hive tokens issued to people who in the future will be curating as we will start paying more and more money to curation rewards untill curation becomes a HUGE deal on hive.
inflation curation
or curation inflation
trusting the new supply of hive tokens with the hive social media post curators who learn to upvote the best posts, of course this fantasy only works after i create a magical way to differentiate the actual human curators from bots, maybe with a curation captcha test , and some ai bots
also the use of ai bots like using chat gpt5 with @banjo lol sounds so insanely useful especially to create little bits of code that can be put together to become running programs when combined with all the uiser generated details input over time, we can have a HiveOS, a Hive BIOS really a sort of basic input output system for hive, a shadow realm for hive witnesses, a sort of second layer of code running in the social media text, ok nevermind that last part thats just some nonesense techno poetry
Nice you can practice with all 88 keys!
You could get a drum machine for around $100
Maybe a bit more $$$ than that