Choosing a silicone for casting soft buttons

MAKE pal Steve Cooley, who manufactures the Beatseqr hardware performance controller, has posted the lab notes from his recent experiments with various silicone products for casting monolithic soft button arrays. I love it when people do this–the steps and missteps that happen along the way are often as interesting, and as helpful, as the finished product.

More:

• Road From Maker Faire 2010: beatseqr/steppa wrapup
• The Road to Maker Faire: beatseqr
• Beatseqr – Arduino based interface for music