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| 0 | Soarer: | This is my Teensy-based project which adapts XT, AT and some 122 key terminal keyboar ... | 22 Apr 2011 |
| 1 | Mr. Perfect: | Impressive work there. It's tempting to make one of these even for boards that work o ... | 22 Apr 2011 |
| 2 | Soarer: | Some boards don't have LEDs (e.g. XTs and Terminals), and in the case of the XT the p ... | 22 Apr 2011 |
| 3 | HaveANiceDay: | This looks really interesting. Especially the Filco NKRO USB Mod possibilities. I don ... | 22 Apr 2011 |
| 4 | hasu: | Nice work! I tried your converter with PS/2 keyboard on Mac and confirmed NKRO works ... | 23 Apr 2011 |
| 5 | Soarer: | Thanks, hasu! I might need to add in your fix for the SET_IDLE problem on OS-X. I hav ... | 23 Apr 2011 |
| 6 | Soarer: | Which one? My firmware was already working better than theirs many weeks ago. | 23 Apr 2011 |
| 7 | ch_123: | I'd be willing to check this out whenever I get my Teensy and sufficient free time. | 23 Apr 2011 |
| 8 | Soarer: | That would be great, thanks! I think the most likely problem (if any) is an occasio ... | 23 Apr 2011 |
| 9 | Hak Foo: | Just built, waiting for my terminal F to come tomorrow. adding the LEDs lets you test ... | 24 Apr 2011 |
| 10 | Soarer: | Ah, Hak Foo... just spotted your question on IRC about the devices that the converter ... | 24 Apr 2011 |
| 11 | xwhatsit: | What are you using for a VID/PID? | 24 Apr 2011 |
| 12 | Soarer: | I'll check later, but I haven't changed it from the defaults in the PJRC sample code. ... | 24 Apr 2011 |
| 13 | xwhatsit: | Ah right. I'm going to use the standard V-USB HID keyboard VID/PID for my wee project ... | 24 Apr 2011 |
| 14 | intealls: | Nice work! Just wondering what kind of remapping/macro features your firmware support ... | 24 Apr 2011 |
| 15 | Soarer: | For personal projects, I guess it doesn't really matter what we use! (I admit I hav ... | 25 Apr 2011 |
| 16 | Soarer: | Remappings are done from HID code to HID code, using a table in RAM, after the native ... | 25 Apr 2011 |
| 17 | Hak Foo: | Stupid question: what's the default mapping for a 122 look like? I'm thinking I'm go ... | 25 Apr 2011 |
| 18 | Soarer: | Roughly speaking, it's done as a regular 102 with extra keys. The block of 10 keys on ... | 25 Apr 2011 |
| 19 | intealls: | I've got a Teensy++ 2.0 with your firmware hooked up to my MBP Santa Rosa, and I've y ... | 25 Apr 2011 |
| 20 | Soarer: | Excellent news! Thanks for letting me know, that was the last part that was completel ... | 25 Apr 2011 |
| 21 | intealls: | Sorry 'bout that. :/ Yup, seems fine when no keys are pressed! Gonna test a couple mo ... | 25 Apr 2011 |
| 22 | Soarer: | Thinking about it, I can't quite figure out what's going wrong - I guess it must some ... | 25 Apr 2011 |
| 23 | intealls: | It does not wake up :( That was what I was testing. I just tried the same thing on Li ... | 25 Apr 2011 |
| 24 | Soarer: | I think handling wake-up will have to wait until I support suspend mode correctly - i ... | 25 Apr 2011 |
| 25 | intealls: | It still seems to repeat. :/ Would be great if someone else could try to reproduce it ... | 25 Apr 2011 |
| 26 | kishy: | I am unable to reproduce, or witness any issues at all after waking from standby (jus ... | 25 Apr 2011 |
| 27 | intealls: | I think it's a problem related to OS X, Linux (Ubuntu 10.04 I think) on the same mach ... | 25 Apr 2011 |
| 28 | kishy: | Win7...so yeah...might be OS-related (in fact, there's a good chance it is...standby ... | 25 Apr 2011 |
| 29 | Soarer: | Thanks for trying it. :-) I'm still hoping that there is a change I can make that ... | 26 Apr 2011 |
| 30 | Oqsy: | High five! 122 key terminal Model F up and running!!! Everything is good so far :) I ... | 27 Apr 2011 |
| 31 | Soarer: | v0.992 is now available, which works around an annoying issue with Linux. The problem ... | 01 May 2011 |
| 32 | Neit: | Hi Soarer, I would like to wire your converter with both DIN and PS/2 connectors. Sin ... | 01 May 2011 |
| 33 | Soarer: | Nice diagram! Yes, that should be fine. (In fact, I don't think plugging both in at t ... | 01 May 2011 |
| 34 | Oqsy: | Glad this was brought up, as short-term I will be doing the same with a terminal F, a ... | 02 May 2011 |
| 35 | Neit: | Thanks :) I wanted to make it clear and "readable" for my first electronic build. Goo ... | 02 May 2011 |
| 36 | Soarer: | That is fine. (It's probably about the same thickness as the wires in the cable to th ... | 02 May 2011 |
| 37 | Neit: | Okay good. I'll get some resistors just in case. Yes, I was planning on a (lego) box. ... | 02 May 2011 |
| 38 | nowsharing: | Wow, awesome work everyone. You've achieved the "impossible." Could I buy one of the ... | 02 May 2011 |
| 39 | bhtooefr: | Man, this code works great. Now I just need the remappable version. :) | 03 May 2011 |
| 40 | slueth: | Just buy a teensy and request a sample from tyco electronics for the DIN connectors ... | 03 May 2011 |
| 41 | Hak Foo: | if you don't feel like harassing tyco, the socket costs <4 USD from the big online pa ... | 03 May 2011 |
| 42 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | I want to do this, but why is the teensy so damn expensive? | 03 May 2011 |
| 43 | slueth: | Its because not only can you use it for a keyboard convertor, you can use it for a sl ... | 03 May 2011 |
| 44 | Neit: | Hey, I Updated the diagram before soldering. I finally chose to add the resistors for ... | 04 May 2011 |
| 45 | Soarer: | Yep, even better! I like that the socket views are labelled as front and back - it re ... | 04 May 2011 |
| 46 | Soarer: | Is it though? Even used just as a keyboard converter, I don't think it's unreasonab ... | 04 May 2011 |
| 47 | Findecanor: | There are lots of unused pins, though. I wonder if they could be used for something u ... | 04 May 2011 |
| 48 | Mr. Perfect: | Very nice diagrams there Neit. Any idea where the lock LEDs would fit into those? | 04 May 2011 |
| 49 | Soarer: | DIP switches!! | 04 May 2011 |
| 50 | Soarer: | Has anyone wired them up yet? I'm tempted to move them to different pins on the Teens ... | 04 May 2011 |
| 51 | Hak Foo: | I have. If one thing is annoying about the laout, it is the lights. Too close togeth ... | 05 May 2011 |
| 52 | Neit: | I'll add them on the diagram as soon as Soarer has chosen the final pins to use (curr ... | 05 May 2011 |
| 53 | Soarer: | Still a bit risky but should be ok (as ok as hot-swapping any PS/2, I guess). The con ... | 05 May 2011 |
| 54 | Mr. Perfect: | Yes, that's exactly what I was asking about. Probably best to wait and see if they ... | 06 May 2011 |
| 55 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | I'm just a cheapass who doesn't understand who people are willing to use an arduino ... | 06 May 2011 |
| 56 | hasu: | 8_INCH_FLOPPY, You can do with V-USB at cheap. You just need a crystal, 2 zeners, som ... | 06 May 2011 |
| 57 | Soarer: | Ah, well, I can explain that quite simply: it's easier! I chose Atmel AVR mainly beca ... | 06 May 2011 |
| 58 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | Thanks for the detailed explanation. I didn't mean to suggest that you are lazy. Aft ... | 06 May 2011 |
| 59 | Soarer: | I didn't really think you had, the last paragraph was very much tongue in cheek :-) ... | 06 May 2011 |
| 60 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | I caved and ordered a couple. Maybe I can recoup the cost of one by selling the other ... | 06 May 2011 |
| 61 | Oqsy: | Repeat that enough times in the right places and they will. However, this is still DI ... | 07 May 2011 |
| 62 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | Not if I build a bunch and sell them. Muahahahaha. | 07 May 2011 |
| 63 | Hak Foo: | To me, the logical endgame of this project is to eventually develop a small-run PCB w ... | 08 May 2011 |
| 64 | bhtooefr: | Of course, in my case, I just mounted the Teensy internally. That way, it looks like ... | 08 May 2011 |
| 65 | Mr. Perfect: | Ok, here's a question that probably hasn't come up before: can USB keyboards be hooke ... | 09 May 2011 |
| 66 | Soarer: | Yes, it should work fine! (I'm sure someone did ask that before, but maybe not in t ... | 09 May 2011 |
| 67 | Mr. Perfect: | That's great news. So to wire a female USB socket to the controller you just match up ... | 09 May 2011 |
| 68 | Soarer: | I don't know how the passive USB to PS/2 adapters are wired up though - either probe ... | 09 May 2011 |
| 69 | Soarer: | New version (v0.994) posted which adds suspend and wake-up support! Many thanks to ... | 12 May 2011 |
| 70 | slueth: | Soarer, you are amazing! :) | 12 May 2011 |
| 71 | intealls: | Heh, no problem, just glad I was able to help :) You're the one doing the awesome wor ... | 13 May 2011 |
| 72 | Soarer: | Well this phase is really a shakedown, making sure that reliability is top notch befo ... | 13 May 2011 |
| 73 | Voixdelion: | Okay, I just kind of skimmed the discussion because it was all rather technical for m ... | 13 May 2011 |
| 74 | bhtooefr: | Soarer is developing the firmware, you buy a Teensy or Teensy++, you can get one with ... | 13 May 2011 |
| 75 | Soarer: | Basic shopping list: Optional items, as desired: To assemble it just needs a few wire ... | 13 May 2011 |
| 76 | bhtooefr: | And, my build didn't even use the socket, due to how I installed mine. | 13 May 2011 |
| 77 | intealls: | Here's my highly ghettoish solution (I HATE that movie btw) [ Attachment Invalid Or ... | 13 May 2011 |
| 78 | ch_123: | Things often get more difficult to comprehend as you grow older. | 13 May 2011 |
| 79 | slueth: | Not that hard as long as you can understand the pinouts. Make sure you are looking a ... | 14 May 2011 |
| 80 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | Is that the same as the XT pinout? I wired it up to my XT keyboard like that and it ... | 14 May 2011 |
| 81 | slueth: | I used this with the information from the article: Conn. Teensy GND -------- GN ... | 14 May 2011 |
| 82 | Oqsy: | Voix: I have this connected to a 122 Terminal F from the acfrazier group buy. Really ... | 14 May 2011 |
| 83 | Soarer: | The most common mistake so far is wiring the socket backwards - it's important to not ... | 14 May 2011 |
| 84 | kishy: | [ Attachment Invalid Or Does Not Exist ] 18121[/ATTACH] Please feel free to pop this ... | 14 May 2011 |
| 85 | Voixdelion: | kewl. will definitely try this...soon | 14 May 2011 |
| 86 | Neit: | Finally done mine, 0.994 working perfectly with my cherry 81-3000 (yes MY switches ar ... | 15 May 2011 |
| 87 | slueth: | It shouldn't light up, if it lights up there was a problem. Should handle nkro. Corr ... | 15 May 2011 |
| 88 | bhtooefr: | If the keyboard itself doesn't handle NKRO, though, there's a problem, and it'll ligh ... | 15 May 2011 |
| 89 | Soarer: | I don't think the lack of NKRO is a factor here - the keyboard is still capable of tr ... | 16 May 2011 |
| 90 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | I got mine to work for a moment with a PS/2 keyboard, but after I unplugged it and tr ... | 22 May 2011 |
| 91 | Soarer: | Yup, that's the right order when looking into the socket. AT and XT are the same. Pul ... | 22 May 2011 |
| 92 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | Ok, here's the message with one keypress on an AT keyboard: R06 R06 R06 It doesn't gi ... | 22 May 2011 |
| 93 | Soarer: | Not accusing you of sloppy soldering! But something seems to have broken after the fi ... | 22 May 2011 |
| 94 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | There's continuity between The socket and the board, according to ye olde VTVM. Also, ... | 22 May 2011 |
| 95 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | Ok, I've switched back to an AT board, and now it's not working again. Here's the mes ... | 22 May 2011 |
| 96 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | It seems that, out of the 3 AT keyboard that I've tested, the only one that does not ... | 22 May 2011 |
| 97 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | After much testing, here's what basically happens: Normal AT keyboard: Works fine, do ... | 22 May 2011 |
| 98 | Soarer: | Hmm... I used an IBM XT 'board for developing, and then had to tweak my code to get i ... | 22 May 2011 |
| 99 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | I tested my other XT keyboard, and it responded the same as the first one. I have to ... | 22 May 2011 |
| 100 | Soarer: | Cherry 'board didn't do anything that might shed light on what the 'S' setting on you ... | 23 May 2011 |
| 101 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | I'm not sure what make they are. Unfortunately, the last owner peeled the stickers of ... | 24 May 2011 |
| 102 | Soarer: | Oh wow, that would really help! Normally the signals very easy to capture on a 'scope ... | 24 May 2011 |
| 103 | Hak Foo: | Is there any chance we can get the source if we want to compile our own custom mappin ... | 13 Jun 2011 |
| 104 | 8_INCH_FLOPPY: | These were all captured with me pressing the "accent grave/tilde" key. The "S" settin ... | 14 Jun 2011 |
| 105 | REVENGE: | Soarer, this is an excellent project! My implementation works nicely with a Model F 1 ... | 18 Jun 2011 |
| 106 | Soarer: | It could well well Autumn before I have a chance to implement the fancy bits; loo ... | 18 Jun 2011 |
| 107 | Soarer: | That Monterey is an odd beast! For starters, it's going more than twice as fast as a ... | 18 Jun 2011 |
| 108 | didjamatic: | Nice work, I'm doing this! Is there a downside to the ++ or is it just larger than n ... | 18 Jun 2011 |
| 109 | Soarer: | No downside apart from cost really! It just has more of everything (which the convert ... | 18 Jun 2011 |
| 110 | REVENGE: | Soarer, one of the keys on my 122 key terminal Model F does not send any key codes th ... | 25 Jun 2011 |
| 111 | Soarer: | My bad! Looks like I did half a change - I took it out of the global remaps, but fo ... | 25 Jun 2011 |
| 112 | REVENGE: | Thanks! :) Aside from that key not sending a code, the board is currently missing def ... | 25 Jun 2011 |
| 113 | kps: | This is what I did for my 122-key F; it might help someone else. No guarantees, and ... | 26 Jun 2011 |
| 114 | Oqsy: | Nice. I need to do an ANSI mod and add my RGB modifiers too. Excellent work and thx f ... | 28 Jun 2011 |
| 115 | Soarer: | New version (0.995) posted that maps the top-right key of the numpad to 'Pause'. Not ... | 02 Jul 2011 |
| 116 | mr_a500: | I'm thinking of trying this thing with an IBM 5155 keyboard. It should be the same as ... | 03 Jul 2011 |
| 117 | REVENGE: | Yep, I had my BlackWidow and the Model F both connected. First off, the Teensy stays ... | 04 Jul 2011 |
| 118 | Soarer: | It has to stay powered for a keypress to be able to trigger the wake-up ;) I know it ... | 05 Jul 2011 |
| 119 | REVENGE: | Still waiting for Explorer to scan the pr0n cache and total up the file sizes, I'll g ... | 05 Jul 2011 |
| 120 | Soarer: | It's just the size that counts! I'll check next time I reboot what I set in my BIOS, ... | 05 Jul 2011 |
| 121 | REVENGE: | Sounds good, mad props again for developing and maintaining this project. :P | 05 Jul 2011 |
| 122 | mr_a500: | So nobody has ever tried this with an IBM 5155? (that means I'll be the first... in h ... | 10 Jul 2011 |
| 123 | kps: | Open it. Power and ground should be straightforward to identify. Data & clock might ... | 10 Jul 2011 |
| 124 | mr_a500: | You mean open the keyboard? That could be tricky. There are no screws. It looks like ... | 10 Jul 2011 |
| 125 | Soarer: | If you have a multimeter, you might be able to work it out without taking it apart. M ... | 10 Jul 2011 |
| 126 | Hak Foo: | Revenge: I think I've had a similar symptom. Only happened since 0.99.5, but it see ... | 11 Jul 2011 |
| 127 | LETE: | These files aren't much use without the source code, right? Or did you just inject th ... | 20 Jul 2011 |
| 128 | alaricljs: | You write the teensy firmware with this hex file. It's a complete firmware. | 20 Jul 2011 |
| 129 | Soarer: | [strike]I didn't work out what they were for either.... presumably OS side somewhere. ... | 20 Jul 2011 |
| 130 | LETE: | I'm talking about the files kps posted in the attached zip file "remap.zip" on page 1 ... | 20 Jul 2011 |
| 131 | alaricljs: | Just looked at the contents, it's got a makefile and everything is automatic... it sp ... | 20 Jul 2011 |
| 132 | LETE: | Ah, well said. Thank you. | 20 Jul 2011 |
| 133 | Soarer: | Oh... so that's what it does... outrageous subterfuge!! I should warn anyone trying t ... | 20 Jul 2011 |
| 134 | alaricljs: | The people WANT YOUR STUFF... ;) they just want it their way. | 20 Jul 2011 |
| 135 | REVENGE: | Soarer, I understand you're not ready to release your source, but I would be satisfie ... | 21 Jul 2011 |
| 136 | kps: | Thanks! I thought so, from the table contents. It's enough to get my Terminal F layou ... | 21 Jul 2011 |
| 137 | LETE: | I'm going to stick a couple solid state relays in my box and set this thing up to con ... | 22 Jul 2011 |
| 138 | LETE: | Here are a few pictures of my teensy mounting solution for a model F terminal board. ... | 29 Jul 2011 |
| 139 | SmallFry: | Is it possible that I could get the source code? I wanted to recompile/edit a little/ ... | 11 Aug 2011 |
| 140 | Soarer: | Sorry, I'm not ready to give it out yet. It might be a while because I'm very busy wi ... | 11 Aug 2011 |
| 141 | SmallFry: | Alright, thanks anyways Soarer | 11 Aug 2011 |
| 142 | wcass: | Soarer, perhaps the GH community could help with building a front end? something that ... | 12 Aug 2011 |
| 143 | Soarer: | I'm sorry, I missed this! Thanks for the offer! I would like some help with the front ... | 18 Aug 2011 |
| 144 | wcass: | so a couple of questions. input file format should be ... what? default name? comment ... | 28 Aug 2011 |
| 145 | Soarer: | I'm imagining something along the lines of this: (Case insensitive and spaces ignored ... | 28 Aug 2011 |
| 146 | wcass: | would it conserve RAM to only include key mappings for the hardware and configuration ... | 28 Aug 2011 |
| 147 | Soarer: | Oh, I was just using Colemak as an example, it needn't be included all the time. And ... | 28 Aug 2011 |
| 148 | wcass: | yes, i was thinking to reload firmware when changing key maps and macros. speaking fo ... | 29 Aug 2011 |
| 149 | Soarer: | Heh, it's not that - I'd always planned on asking for someone to do the front end whe ... | 29 Aug 2011 |
| 150 | Hak Foo: | box an xampp install with the package. I've pondered doing that with an in-house web- ... | 30 Aug 2011 |
| 151 | timofonic: | About macros and remappings... What about showing it as a Mass Storage Device with th ... | 07 Sep 2011 |
| 152 | Shawn Stanford: | Well, I went ahead and ordered a Teensy 2.0, a breadboard and a set of LEDs. I've nev ... | 07 Sep 2011 |
| 153 | Oqsy: | Shawn, it's a great project to start with. Pretty straightforward, and great payoff ( ... | 07 Sep 2011 |
| 154 | itlnstln: | So, in other words, you're calling Shawn a dummy. Way to support our troops. | 07 Sep 2011 |
| 155 | one_each: | IF THE-KEY-PRESSED-HAS-A-KEYCAP-WITH-A-ON-IT THEN SEND-THE-CODE-FOR ... | 07 Sep 2011 |
| 156 | itlnstln: | I'm lame. VB.NET for the win. I'm a DB guy, not a programmer. | 07 Sep 2011 |
| 157 | Soarer: | Seems a bit heavyweight for this! I think if JavaScript can't do it, a Python or Java ... | 08 Sep 2011 |
| 158 | kps: | No, no, no. During the day, whenever someone presses a key, you simply append the mat ... | 08 Sep 2011 |
| 159 | timofonic: | OK, sorry. I did think the structure would be able to be generated in-time. There wou ... | 09 Sep 2011 |
| 160 | Soarer: | Of the four layers I was thinking of, the driver is actually the easiest part. The de ... | 09 Sep 2011 |
| 161 | timofonic: | Like this board? They use a common Broadcom bluetooth controller. | 09 Sep 2011 |
| 162 | Soarer: | The battery comment wasn't a joke! Those things work great as controllers for contact ... | 09 Sep 2011 |
| 163 | Oqsy: | Lawn mower batt work? :P | 09 Sep 2011 |
| 164 | Soarer: | Bettah! You could fit one a terminal keyboard's case, no problem. Look a bit daft con ... | 09 Sep 2011 |
| 165 | Soarer: | I had changed the ACPI setting in my BIOS to S1. IIRC, in S3 the wakeup simply didn't ... | 10 Sep 2011 |
| 166 | timofonic: | Well, the oriiginal battery fromm. The bluetooth keyboard was 1xx mah and lastedd a w ... | 10 Sep 2011 |
| 167 | Soarer: | Unable to reproduce :-/ BIOS Power Settings at defaults (S3). Fresh Window 7 install. ... | 10 Sep 2011 |
| 168 | Hak Foo: | It seems to be alonbg the lines of suspend wake via converted board power down conver ... | 10 Sep 2011 |
| 169 | Soarer: | power down? | 10 Sep 2011 |
| 170 | Hak Foo: | start-> shut down? | 11 Sep 2011 |
| 171 | Soarer: | I dunno, you said it! :-p I'm confused as to how power down is part of a problem with ... | 11 Sep 2011 |
| 172 | fohat.digs: | OK guys, I am totally stoked. I received an IBM Model F 122-key terminal keyboard fro ... | 27 Sep 2011 |
| 173 | theferenc: | Harry, did you snag yours from OceanTechPrecision on ebay? Does it have dip switches ... | 29 Sep 2011 |
| 174 | kishy: | It can misbehave quite severely if you attempt to press any keys BEFORE the auto-dete ... | 29 Sep 2011 |
| 175 | Soarer: | Sounds like the adapter is somehow thinking it's a scan code set 2 board, so not tryi ... | 29 Sep 2011 |
| 176 | fohat.digs: | Thanks, but I am not there yet. It will be sometime next week before my Teensy gets h ... | 29 Sep 2011 |
| 177 | theferenc: | Thanks, kishy. I'll give that a try and see if it fixes the issue. I would really lov ... | 29 Sep 2011 |
| 178 | Hak Foo: | The Enter labelling is just for decoration- the converter ighnores it. I have a 122M ... | 29 Sep 2011 |
| 179 | theferenc: | Running hid_listen, I get the following: rAA rBF rBF wEE R101wF2 rEE wED R100!!0 ... | 29 Sep 2011 |
| 180 | Soarer: | It looks like it's just unusually slow to reply to commands - like world record holde ... | 29 Sep 2011 |
| 181 | theferenc: | Soarer is the man! Hopefully it continues to work as well as it does right now -- tho ... | 29 Sep 2011 |
| 182 | Oqsy: | Great news! | 30 Sep 2011 |
| 183 | theferenc: | So one last question about this. The key on the keypad, directly above 9. What is its ... | 30 Sep 2011 |
| 184 | Soarer: | It's scroll lock... what does that do in X? | 30 Sep 2011 |
| 185 | N8N: | nothing at all, really... but I just tried it on my machine and scroll lock comes up ... | 30 Sep 2011 |
| 186 | theferenc: | Yeah, I thought it should be scroll lock, but it doesn't match scroll lock on my othe ... | 30 Sep 2011 |
| 187 | Soarer: | Just posted a new version (v0.996) with fixes for some reported problems, and a coupl ... | 01 Oct 2011 |
| 188 | theferenc: | That second one is almost exactly how I have mine laid out at the moment. Too bad I d ... | 01 Oct 2011 |
| 189 | Soarer: | Ah, but instead you have the jumper block inside! I've chosen the IDs so they only re ... | 01 Oct 2011 |
| 190 | SmallFry: | Just a thought... not really necessary but it'd be cool to add support for the SD rea ... | 01 Oct 2011 |
| 191 | theferenc: | AHK runs portably, for certain sure. It's just a download directly from their website ... | 01 Oct 2011 |
| 192 | SmallFry: | My school would have a hacker alert stroke if I wired in like at home. Therefore, I w ... | 01 Oct 2011 |
| 193 | Oqsy: | The perfboard and alligator clip rig I'm using for this would surely get a bomb squad ... | 01 Oct 2011 |
| 194 | kishy: | Here's what I've been working on for the last little while... Complete with externall ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 195 | timofonic: | Hello. Very nice! I would consider ordering one too... What about adding a SD card ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 196 | kishy: | What I did is essentially just 'packaging' the adapter...I did not make any design ch ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 197 | alaricljs: | 7 pins for the LCD... 2 pins for up/down buttons... 5 pins for the SD card slot... 2 ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 198 | one_each: | @Soarer Have you considered using something like code.google.com to host the code as ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 199 | timofonic: | @Soarer In terms of available pinout, memory and such... How's the Teensy2 or Tenensy ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 200 | alaricljs: | I'm not exactly sure what it is you're asking timo, but if you scroll to the top of t ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 201 | fohat.digs: | Help ! Getting very close, I think, but I am way over my head here, and I am not a pr ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 202 | Oqsy: | Have you checked yr pinout from the keyboard? I have no idea what colors mean what i ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 203 | Soarer: | Thanks for showing your build! SD card is almost definitely a 'no'. There's no shor ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 204 | Soarer: | [strike]Have you tried swapping the yellow and red wires?[/strike] Hang on, not sure ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 205 | fohat.digs: | Thanks for the reply. I think/hope I did something kind of like what you described. M ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 206 | Soarer: | Found a label inside my 122F so decided to just photograph it :-) [ Attachment Inval ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 207 | fohat.digs: | Thank you so much. I think that is exactly how I connected mine. Is there anything el ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 208 | Soarer: | Is it? Yellow/Clock should go to PD1, and Red/Data should go to PD0. | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 209 | fohat.digs: | RIGHT YOU ARE ! Stupid me with that whole upside-down-and-backwards thing! (And my re ... | 04 Oct 2011 |
| 210 | Soarer: | Excellent! Glad to hear it's working :-) | 05 Oct 2011 |
| 211 | fohat.digs: | Sorry for the double post, but, for doing the majority of my re-mapping for me! I w ... | 05 Oct 2011 |
| 212 | theferenc: | Yeah, I briefly considered wiring up the lock LEDs. Then I realized, wait a sec, I do ... | 05 Oct 2011 |
| 213 | fohat.digs: | Now this beauty is together and working great. I could not be more pleased - it is fa ... | 05 Oct 2011 |
| 214 | theferenc: | If you're running windows, AHK is a decent option, as is KeyTweak. The former is an a ... | 05 Oct 2011 |
| 215 | fohat.digs: | I usually work in Windows, but I dual-boot to Ubuntu fairly often. I would use it a l ... | 05 Oct 2011 |
| 216 | Soarer: | There was a hack somewhere, which should work, but some remappings done that way migh ... | 05 Oct 2011 |
| 217 | theferenc: | I use KeyTweak and xmodmap both, without issues whatsoever. I prefer these over the A ... | 05 Oct 2011 |
| 218 | fohat.digs: | You guys are simply the greatest! But I am a pest. Hopefully, when you answer my ques ... | 06 Oct 2011 |
| 219 | theferenc: | That's weird, I was able to remap them just fine. Did you use "teach mode" in keytwea ... | 06 Oct 2011 |
| 220 | fohat.digs: | No luck with that. I went through the routines in both "Half Teach Mode" and "Full Te ... | 06 Oct 2011 |
| 221 | Soarer: | I reckon KeyTweak has got confused trying to remap Pause... try reverting both NumLoc ... | 06 Oct 2011 |
| 222 | fohat.digs: | Boy-oh-boy! a missed day of geekhack down had me worried! Thanks for all your help, g ... | 07 Oct 2011 |
| 223 | Soarer: | Sorry, but you won't be able to remap some of the keys in that left hand F-key block, ... | 07 Oct 2011 |
| 224 | fohat.digs: | Hi, it's me, harrymoss, I just felt like I needed to change my ID to something less m ... | 09 Oct 2011 |
| 225 | Soarer: | As it stands, I'm afraid you'll have to accept that you can't get all of the layout t ... | 09 Oct 2011 |
| 226 | theferenc: | That's really weird, honestly. I remapped nearly everything in Linux with no issues w ... | 13 Oct 2011 |
| 227 | fohat.digs: | So, my amateurish trial and error fumblings continue. I post this stuff, not in a nar ... | 14 Oct 2011 |
| 228 | LETE: | You don't need to worry about the thicker coating affecting performance. When the key ... | 15 Oct 2011 |
| 229 | fohat.digs: | It might not be all that hard to make one, provided that you had a hole punch of just ... | 16 Oct 2011 |
| 230 | LETE: | Let's both give it a shot and compare notes. Of course, if we get a proof of concept ... | 16 Oct 2011 |
| 231 | fohat.digs: | May be getting far enough off-topic to warrant a new thread. Since I am really fond o ... | 17 Oct 2011 |
| 232 | LETE: | Yeah, I made us a thread of our own. | 17 Oct 2011 |
| 233 | fohat.digs: | Soarer - I have put together a 2nd keyboard, and left all the jumpers open to defaul ... | 19 Oct 2011 |
| 234 | Soarer: | I wish I knew why that numlock won't remap! Does it just stay as numlock then? True, ... | 20 Oct 2011 |
| 235 | fohat.digs: | Yes, it just stays NumLock regardless of what I tell it to be. I was using KeyTweak a ... | 20 Oct 2011 |
| 236 | Soarer: | No requests, sorry! The two alternative mappings came about for specific reasons - th ... | 22 Oct 2011 |
| 237 | theferenc: | I would recommend something like C++/Qt combination, or possibly python using wx or s ... | 23 Oct 2011 |
| 238 | Soarer: | C++/Qt would suit me - I'd only need to learn the Qt bit! I think I'll just go with C ... | 24 Oct 2011 |
| 239 | HaaTa: | Heh, I know Qt :D | 24 Oct 2011 |
| 240 | RPro: | Hi - dumb question,but I couldn't find it with search: Does this Teensy PS2 adapter w ... | 29 Oct 2011 |
| 241 | Soarer: | It should - it certainly works with my Dell AT102W and SGI Granite :) | 30 Oct 2011 |
| 242 | RPro: | That's great! Gonna order a teensy board soon then. :) | 30 Oct 2011 |
| 243 | fohat.digs: | A couple of things: First, do you want the Teensy for the Dell AT-101 for gaming? Bec ... | 31 Oct 2011 |
| 244 | kishy: | And that really does sum up a lot of why so many of us love these things...the Fs, es ... | 31 Oct 2011 |
| 245 | fohat.digs: | You have to take the Model F apart to really appreciate its construction. It seems mo ... | 31 Oct 2011 |
| 246 | theferenc: | I know the M cases can be dyed, but it's a challenge due to the size. Some folks have ... | 04 Nov 2011 |
| 247 | fohat.digs: | I decided that the advice was mostly against dyeing the Model F case, so I went to th ... | 05 Nov 2011 |
| 248 | RPro: | Actually, my new Sandy Bridge Asus P8Z68V-Pro motherboard does not have any PS/2 port ... | 06 Nov 2011 |
| 249 | Soarer: | Looks great, I like it! This code can't add NKRO to a non-NKRO keyboard of course, b ... | 06 Nov 2011 |
| 250 | kishy: | That's GORGEOUS! Very well done. | 08 Nov 2011 |
| 251 | RPro: | I got the teensy converter programmed and the connector soldered (stole it from an ol ... | 11 Nov 2011 |
| 252 | RPro: | Whoops - guess the Dell AT101W is a 2KRO. Oh well. | 11 Nov 2011 |
| 253 | Soarer: | Ah cool, you got it working ok! You never know exactly what you're going to get with ... | 11 Nov 2011 |
| 254 | RC-1140: | Hey, Currently I'm using this adapter for a 1990's 122-Key Terminal Model M, and in g ... | 11 Nov 2011 |
| 255 | Soarer: | Hmm, I dunno! Although... 7 is the HID usage page for keyboard keys, and 88 is the HI ... | 11 Nov 2011 |
| 256 | RC-1140: | well, 93 is the X keycode for the Hiragana_Katakana Symbol. I don't know why, but one ... | 11 Nov 2011 |
| 257 | Soarer: | Oh, ok. I don't really know anything about remapping USB keyboards in X, but somethin ... | 12 Nov 2011 |
| 258 | RC-1140: | d'oh! when in doubt, read manpages… m( Well. Looks like I have to do it by editing al ... | 12 Nov 2011 |
| 259 | RPro: | Hmm, I seem to be having an issue - it seems when I let the PC idle for a while (it d ... | 12 Nov 2011 |
| 260 | Soarer: | That sounds odd, I'm gonna hope it works ok on a rear port! Power saving can be an is ... | 12 Nov 2011 |
| 261 | RPro: | I have an Asus P8Z68-V Pro motherboard. Windows 7 64 bit. It is set to S3. It BSODed ... | 12 Nov 2011 |
| 262 | Soarer: | I doubt the converter caused a BSOD! Wish I knew what to suggest for that, getting a ... | 13 Nov 2011 |
| 263 | RPro: | Yeah I don't think it was the converter. If I have more issues with the keyboard itse ... | 13 Nov 2011 |
| 264 | dorkvader: | Hmm, Can I use something like this to decode a normal ascii keyboard? | 07 Dec 2011 |
| 265 | Soarer: | Dunno... I'm not sure what you mean...? | 07 Dec 2011 |
| 266 | Soarer: | Are not whole translation tables! As a silly example, if you wanted to swap the '1' k ... | 07 Dec 2011 |
| 267 | hasu: | mmm, nice features! and can't wait for trying new your firmware! If the syntax is sim ... | 08 Dec 2011 |
| 268 | alaricljs: | I want. I am not patient... but I haven't succeeded in getting anywhere with my own ... | 08 Dec 2011 |
| 269 | fohat.digs: | Soarer - Have you come up with a way to remap those 2 pesky numpad keys on the F-122 ... | 08 Dec 2011 |
| 270 | Soarer: | Thanks! I'm looking for the quickest way to get something usable - a better syntax, o ... | 08 Dec 2011 |
| 271 | LukStarkiller: | I have one question in mind, which is the slower response time (latency) that we can ... | 18 Dec 2011 |
| 272 | Soarer: | Hmm, good question! I haven't tested it, but I the worst case should be just under ... | 18 Dec 2011 |
| 273 | LukStarkiller: | :eek: Surprising information I never thought that the delay caused by the keyboard's ... | 18 Dec 2011 |
| 274 | dorkvader: | I had to do some research, to know what I meant by that (I had to look up and double ... | 18 Dec 2011 |
| 275 | Mikelittoris: | Okey, so i've got my terminal 122 key model f (6110347), my teensy with a female 5 po ... | 19 Dec 2011 |
| 276 | DaemonRaccoon: | Assuming counting from the bottom left (facing the connector). That's AT (and PS/2), ... | 19 Dec 2011 |
| 277 | Mikelittoris: | Oh crapper! Thanks alot DeamonRaccoon yo're the best, I shall get back to the solderi ... | 19 Dec 2011 |
| 278 | Mikelittoris: | Well I've connected the cables as you said DaemonRaccoon. Still nothing is happening. ... | 19 Dec 2011 |
| 279 | DaemonRaccoon: | Start with flashing the Teensy without the keyboard connected, make sure you have the ... | 19 Dec 2011 |
| 280 | Soarer: | Don't panic just yet - it's not easy to kill a Teensy with this mod! I think about th ... | 19 Dec 2011 |
| 281 | Mikelittoris: | Ok thanks I will have to try that tomorrow, been up for 32h straight now and I thogut ... | 19 Dec 2011 |
| 282 | Soarer: | LOL! Yeah, helps if everything is plugged in! | 19 Dec 2011 |
| 283 | Soarer: | I've no idea! There is another Wyse that kbdbabel has signalling info for, and it is ... | 19 Dec 2011 |
| 284 | Mikelittoris: | There we go, connected the cable to the controller and it works! I've done it, YEY! : ... | 20 Dec 2011 |
| 285 | thebum: | Wow. Soarer thanks so much for putting your time into this. Just got my teensy today. ... | 31 Dec 2011 |
| 286 | Soarer: | You're welcome - thanks for posting :-) The XT support was actually one of the easie ... | 04 Jan 2012 |
| 287 | litster: | Soarer, is your mapping without recompiling part ready yet? I am wondering if I coul ... | 04 Jan 2012 |
| 288 | Soarer: | Afraid not - I haven't had time to do any more since the last status update :-( The o ... | 04 Jan 2012 |
| 289 | litster: | That's cool, Soarer. We can wait. Thanks. | 04 Jan 2012 |
| 290 | thebum: | Thanks for the welcome. I've spent quite a bit of time on the board and have encount ... | 05 Jan 2012 |
| 291 | Soarer: | New version posted. For the brave! | 26 Feb 2012 |
| 292 | timofonic: | Features list? Please? :) | 26 Feb 2012 |
| 293 | Soarer: | Not brave enough - you're barred! :-p There is some (scant) documentation in the tool ... | 26 Feb 2012 |
| 294 | Soarer: | Ok, so what's new is all the stuff outlined in this post, and media key support. You ... | 27 Feb 2012 |
| 295 | REVENGE: | HOOOOOOOOOORAAAAAAAAAYYYYY! ... | 28 Feb 2012 |
| 296 | alaricljs: | Can you explain a 'SELECT'? It sounds as tho it can be used to set a layer/keymap vi ... | 28 Feb 2012 |
| 297 | litster: | This new update sounds very awesome. We need someone to help port it over to use on ... | 28 Feb 2012 |
| 298 | Soarer: | Pretty much what I thought when I finally found some time to work on it again!! FN an ... | 28 Feb 2012 |
| 299 | alaricljs: | Where you use crazy chords, I would use Fn. I'm also not a fan of toggles, hence usi ... | 28 Feb 2012 |
| 300 | Soarer: | The crazy chord was just an example :) There must be millions of ways you could put t ... | 28 Feb 2012 |
| 301 | Soarer: | Oh yeah, forgot to mention - SELECT_0 can be used to reset all toggles to off. So you ... | 29 Feb 2012 |
| 302 | Soarer: | Currently got about a dozen items on my to-do list, and making this sort of thing pos ... | 29 Feb 2012 |
| 303 | alaricljs: | Well, there's people willing to help if you want to share the load ;) | 29 Feb 2012 |
| 304 | Soarer: | Has anyone had a go at compiling the tools for Linux or MacOSX? (Linux I could try so ... | 29 Feb 2012 |
| 305 | theferenc: | I can try it on Mac later today or tomorrow, if you want. I'll be trying Linux, as we ... | 29 Feb 2012 |
| 306 | Soarer: | Either would be great! Linux is probably the one I'm more worried about, in case diff ... | 29 Feb 2012 |
| 307 | Soarer: | Lego! [ Attachment Invalid Or Does Not Exist ] 42352[/ATTACH] | 01 Mar 2012 |
| 308 | Soarer: | I call the bastardized version of usage page 7 HID codes that the converter uses inte ... | 01 Mar 2012 |
| 309 | litster: | Good to hear that this is on your to-do list! | 02 Mar 2012 |
| 310 | mkawa: | i can port this to phantom, i just need some pointers on how to get simulavr running ... | 02 Mar 2012 |
| 311 | Soarer: | I haven't used the simulator at all, just a combination of debug print output, extra ... | 02 Mar 2012 |
| 312 | Soarer: | Built myself a neat converter today :-) A while back I spotted some console hack dong ... | 03 Mar 2012 |
| 313 | SmallFry: | SWEET! Nice package to keep your converter in! Since it uses Atmel's stuff to program ... | 03 Mar 2012 |
| 314 | Soarer: | Thanks! Still one thing left to do... drill a hole in the case so I can reset it for ... | 03 Mar 2012 |
| 315 | alaricljs: | How much does the case flex in that spot? You might not need a hole, just fill the g ... | 03 Mar 2012 |
| 316 | Soarer: | Sorry, missed your edit... No, it's not compatible with the Teensy utility, and you c ... | 03 Mar 2012 |
| 317 | mkawa: | ok message received -- it sounds like simulators are pretty hopeless. this will have ... | 03 Mar 2012 |
| 318 | Soarer: | Hardly any flex, surprisingly, but it might _just_ work... with a very firm squeeze! ... | 03 Mar 2012 |
| 319 | Soarer: | Dunno about hopeless, but I always find using them a mixed bag. It's nice to be able ... | 03 Mar 2012 |
| 320 | mkawa: | agreed. i was hoping there was a nice debugging toolkit that would let me do these th ... | 03 Mar 2012 |
| 321 | Soarer: | Hmm. This looks quite easy, actually, but which address to jump to depends on the boo ... | 03 Mar 2012 |
| 322 | drteming: | Newbie here. Just got a terminal 1390572 last week. Cleaned it up and did a full bo ... | 05 Mar 2012 |
| 323 | Soarer: | Thank you for posting pics - I love seeing a nice tidy build! | 05 Mar 2012 |
| 324 | fohat.digs: | Oh that is beautiful. I am doing something similar when I have some spare time, and y ... | 06 Mar 2012 |
| 325 | theferenc: | Soarer, do you want compilation feedback via PM or in the thread? | 06 Mar 2012 |
| 326 | Soarer: | Aha, cool! Probably here, in case others might want to try as well. Unless it's embar ... | 06 Mar 2012 |
| 327 | theferenc: | I don't think it's embarrassing, no. This is all on Linux (RHEL 6). I was able to get ... | 07 Mar 2012 |
| 328 | Soarer: | Knocked together some code that should work for nearly all Atmel AVR chips (except xm ... | 07 Mar 2012 |
| 329 | Soarer: | Thanks for putting the time in! I'll plug my Linux (Mint, Debian) box back in so I ca ... | 07 Mar 2012 |
| 330 | Soarer: | Got scrd and scwr working on Mint! Needed libusb-0.1-4 and libusb-dev installing to g ... | 07 Mar 2012 |
| 331 | RC-1140: | Hey Soarer, at first: thank you very much for creating such a fantastic converter sof ... | 07 Mar 2012 |
| 332 | Soarer: | It should work fine on any 32U4, as long as you can get it in there! The dongle I ada ... | 07 Mar 2012 |
| 333 | RC-1140: | Actually even this would be great, as I'm currently using 0.996 anyway. This might be ... | 08 Mar 2012 |
| 334 | Soarer: | The trouble is, I'm not sure why it helps much - the '32U4 chip is about 5EUR, and th ... | 08 Mar 2012 |
| 335 | Soarer: | In other news, I just added Jump to Bootloader support for the next release, with two ... | 08 Mar 2012 |
| 336 | RC-1140: | Yeah, of course that little price difference doesn't justify the extra work you would ... | 08 Mar 2012 |
| 337 | Soarer: | I will have a look in case there's some easy memory saving that can be done, but othe ... | 08 Mar 2012 |
| 338 | Soarer: | Well, I managed to reduce the size by about 2KB. (Stupid makefile forcing inclusion o ... | 08 Mar 2012 |
| 339 | SmallFry: | Will you ever open source your code? I know I've asked before, but can't recall off hand. | 09 Mar 2012 |
| 340 | Soarer: | I really don't know if or when. Once done it cannot be undone - last time I started t ... | 09 Mar 2012 |
| 341 | litster: | Which IBM keyboard would be best to use for this project if I want to keep it small a ... | 09 Mar 2012 |
| 342 | Soarer: | The AT (84-key). It's not 'small', but there's only about an extra inch on the RHS co ... | 09 Mar 2012 |
| 343 | litster: | Right, the AT. But it would be hard to get one now. Could I do this on a Phantom, w ... | 09 Mar 2012 |
| 344 | Soarer: | Hard, but far from impossible. You just have to keep looking, and be prepared to pay ... | 09 Mar 2012 |
| 345 | litster: | Ah, I get it now. The Phantom firmware we have now came from PrinsValium. His code ... | 09 Mar 2012 |
| 346 | Soarer: | OK. I'll talk to him when I'm ready to make plans for controller stuff. | 09 Mar 2012 |
| 347 | Soarer: | Yes. (I missed seeing the edit again!) | 12 Mar 2012 |
| 348 | drteming: | Well, I worked up the courage to delve into Soarer's 0.997 firmware. My last foray i ... | 13 Mar 2012 |
| 349 | wcass: | if you are serious about this, i'ld like to talk to you about a project i'm working o ... | 13 Mar 2012 |
| 350 | Soarer: | Hail to the Brave! Thanks for posting up what you've done, and how. Sorry about the l ... | 13 Mar 2012 |
| 351 | Soarer: | I'm serious, but it's possibly not quite what you're after - my plan is to replace ju ... | 13 Mar 2012 |
| 352 | Parak: | I'm entirely too lazy to check this at the moment, but isn't the teensy++ and the mai ... | 16 Mar 2012 |
| 353 | Soarer: | Yup, same size, but the ++ has GND and AREF in the middle of one side, which aligns w ... | 16 Mar 2012 |
| 354 | Parak: | They would align in every one of the four possible orientations of a teensy++? Still, ... | 16 Mar 2012 |
| 355 | Soarer: | Well, there's also that +5V and GND are on diagonally opposite corners of the CPU, vs ... | 16 Mar 2012 |
| 356 | Parak: | Hmm, I see. Does T0 have to be used for something? If not then using teensy++ with +5 ... | 16 Mar 2012 |
| 357 | Soarer: | Depends on the 'board - the XT, AT and DisplayWriter use it for signalling to the hos ... | 16 Mar 2012 |
| 358 | wcass: | thanks Soarer. i used this in my IBM AT project here: http://geekhack.org/showwiki.ph ... | 19 Mar 2012 |
| 359 | ed_avis: | With a Dell M6300 (BIOS rev A14) and Windows XP x64 SP2, and the converter driving a ... | 01 Apr 2012 |
| 360 | kishy: | Yeah, I've had troubles with a Dell Inspiron 630m doing the same thing. Presuming BIO ... | 01 Apr 2012 |
| 361 | ed_avis: | Strangely, although the M6300 does not recognize the Soarer-adapted keyboard for hitt ... | 01 Apr 2012 |
| 362 | Soarer: | There must be something peculiar that these machines have in common. I mean, they wor ... | 01 Apr 2012 |
| 363 | ed_avis: | Soarer I see that you are in the same country as me. If you are near London and you ... | 02 Apr 2012 |
| 364 | Soarer: | Many thanks for the offer! For me, that wouldn't be feasible for a month or two thoug ... | 02 Apr 2012 |
| 365 | litster: | Sweet! I am going to get a few parts to build this. I have Teensys at home ready to go. | 03 Apr 2012 |
| 366 | Morning Song: | Just a little report/question: I'm using one of the earliest teensy adapters, made by ... | 07 Apr 2012 |
| 367 | Soarer: | Hey, that's an odd one! What's a 6011668? I'm guessing it's a 122-key terminal board ... | 08 Apr 2012 |
| 368 | Morning Song: | Er, whoops! It's a 6110668, not 6011668. (Same as, i believe, Sethstorm's). Force Se ... | 08 Apr 2012 |
| 369 | Soarer: | Cool, 'force' works! Using it stops the converter querying the board at all, so it's ... | 08 Apr 2012 |
| 370 | Morning Song: | Exactly! Back in the Dark Times before you guys came out with these adapters, Kishy h ... | 08 Apr 2012 |
| 371 | Soarer: | Heh, I finally started to try and get some better documentation sorted out today! A d ... | 08 Apr 2012 |
| 372 | wcass: | i was thinking i would like to help with an .hta GUI wrapper for your code. it would ... | 08 Apr 2012 |
| 373 | Soarer: | The more the merrier! I've managed to get the command line tools compiling on all pla ... | 08 Apr 2012 |
| 374 | Morning Song: | My thoughts on the matter is that if there's a nice simple one-file way of including ... | 08 Apr 2012 |
| 375 | alaricljs: | A gui could probably be built across the command line tools with AutoHotKey. | 08 Apr 2012 |
| 376 | Soarer: | It partly depends on what you all think a GUI should do! I know it wouldn't start off ... | 08 Apr 2012 |
| 377 | SmallFry: | The gui should include a verbose just for debugging stuff:) Other than that, and bein ... | 09 Apr 2012 |
| 378 | Parak: | I think the GUI could basically just be a front end to the tools. One would select fr ... | 09 Apr 2012 |
| 379 | Soarer: | Heh, a minimal front-end could just be a text editor with a 'send to keyboard' button ... | 09 Apr 2012 |
| 380 | fruktstund: | I'm a bit tired right now, and this might therefore be somewhat a stupid question, bu ... | 16 Apr 2012 |
| 381 | Soarer: | Glad you find it useful! USB-to-USB might happen at some point in the future - there ... | 17 Apr 2012 |
| 382 | litster: | Hi. I just built a Soarer converter. But I am running into some problem. Here is t ... | 17 Apr 2012 |
| 383 | kishy: | Silly question, but are you unplugging the USB connector before changing keyboards? E ... | 17 Apr 2012 |
| 384 | Soarer: | Aha, I hope it is just that! It's the only thing I can think of that makes sense of t ... | 17 Apr 2012 |
| 385 | litster: | Hi. I tried cold plugging different keyboards. The result is the same. On the old ... | 17 Apr 2012 |
| 386 | Soarer: | So you're plugging the keyboard into the converter, and then the converter into the P ... | 17 Apr 2012 |
| 387 | litster: | Thank you! That was it! I always connected the Teensy to the PC first, and then plu ... | 17 Apr 2012 |
| 388 | kishy: | Good to hear - and yes, hotplugging XT, AT or PS/2 interfaces is not really the best ... | 17 Apr 2012 |
| 389 | Soarer: | Phew! | 17 Apr 2012 |
| 390 | litster: | Soarer, is it possible to detect a disconnect of the PS/2 connection, and reset the T ... | 17 Apr 2012 |
| 391 | Soarer: | Hmm. Probably, with some work, but I'm not sure I want to encourage it! (There is a r ... | 17 Apr 2012 |
| 392 | bhtooefr: | What about detecting the unplug, and then blinking an error condition? Or even having ... | 18 Apr 2012 |
| 393 | litster: | Hehe, I thought more people need to know how cool Soarer's converter is, so I posted ... | 18 Apr 2012 |
| 394 | Soarer: | Thanks for that! Hope you enjoy it, and find a use for some of the other features as ... | 19 Apr 2012 |
| 395 | Soarer: | Been working on the docs a bit - any comments and/or tips would be welcome! [ Attach ... | 19 Apr 2012 |
| 396 | REVENGE: | Oh man, this looks great! I'll do a read through, let you know if I have any suggestions. | 19 Apr 2012 |
| 397 | Gawkbasher: | Very cool documentation. Thanks! | 19 Apr 2012 |
| 398 | Soarer: | It's pretty much the first time I've messed with CSS, so, um, don't look at that! The ... | 19 Apr 2012 |
| 399 | bhtooefr: | FWIW, you can do the navbar stuff in CSS, too - no need to do it in JavaScript. Typo ... | 20 Apr 2012 |
| 400 | Soarer: | The navbar is done in CSS, but effectively it's a client-side include I really wanted ... | 20 Apr 2012 |
| 401 | Soarer: | To celebrate, I present , with these new and improved features... | 23 Apr 2012 |
| 402 | Zorael: | Pre-built linux tools sounds awesome! Excuse me if I'm sobbing; I've just spent the b ... | 23 Apr 2012 |
| 403 | Soarer: | Thanks! And welcome to geekhack! Oh man, I'm really sorry :-( There were a few posts ... | 23 Apr 2012 |
| 404 | andrewjoy: | will this work on the rubber dome wise boards also ? i got one off ebay quite cheap i ... | 25 Apr 2012 |
| 405 | Soarer: | I don't know the keyboard - any idea what protocol it uses? What connector? | 25 Apr 2012 |
| 406 | andrewjoy: | it uses a phone type connector similar to other terminal boards i am amusing it uses ... | 25 Apr 2012 |
| 407 | John Boone: | Congrats and happy birthday for your Converter ! I would like to know if it is possi ... | 25 Apr 2012 |
| 408 | Soarer: | Thanks! Yes, it can, with some caveats... First, it won't fit with the standard Atmel ... | 25 Apr 2012 |
| 409 | John Boone: | Thanks for the answer, well I will stick with the 32k version as for now, since i am ... | 01 May 2012 |
| 410 | Soarer: | Unless you already have some 16k chips, then it's definitely worth going for the 32k. ... | 01 May 2012 |
| 411 | REVENGE: | Woo, busted out the Unsaver tonight. Converter works great, and now I finally have th ... | 27 May 2012 |
| 412 | Soarer: | BTW: LANG_4 is the center key in the arrow cluster for 122s. :-p There is an easier w ... | 27 May 2012 |
| 413 | REVENGE: | Good tip, thanks! | 27 May 2012 |
| 414 | Soarer: | New version which fixes a bug that stopped jump to bootloader functions working on AT ... | 31 May 2012 |
| 415 | Soarer: | We can add Dell Latitude D800 to that list :-( At least I have one to play with, so i ... | 05 Jun 2012 |
| 416 | fohat.digs: | I have installed 12.04 as a dual-boot with Windows 7, and the OS does not seem to rec ... | 06 Jun 2012 |
| 417 | Soarer: | Oh crap - what have they gone and done! :-( No driver needed, it should be all there ... | 06 Jun 2012 |
| 418 | alaricljs: | Also check if the USB on the other side of the Dell works. I haven't been able to fi ... | 06 Jun 2012 |
| 419 | kishy: | FWIW, all of my tests on the 630m involved all 4 ports (which are on the same "side", ... | 06 Jun 2012 |
| 420 | alaricljs: | My D820 and e6410 both have opposite side USB ports, I was under the impression that ... | 06 Jun 2012 |
| 421 | kishy: | [ Attachment Invalid Or Does Not Exist ] 52336[/ATTACH] I believe 630m is the odd on ... | 06 Jun 2012 |
| 422 | Soarer: | Actually, on the D800 (A11 BIOS) it seems to work OK from a cold boot, but not on res ... | 06 Jun 2012 |
| 423 | Soarer: | Hmm... so on this Dell actually all devices are showing up. Strangely, the scinfo com ... | 06 Jun 2012 |
| 424 | Soarer: | I not sure that this D800 has the quite same problem as those other Dells. On this on ... | 08 Jun 2012 |
| 425 | fohat.digs: | I don't know about anybody else's Ubuntu 12.04 problem, but mine was fixed immediatel ... | 08 Jun 2012 |
| 426 | Soarer: | Interesting... that actually makes it more similar to the Dell laptops' problem, in t ... | 08 Jun 2012 |
| 427 | fohat.digs: | Yes, I think that it just had to recognize the USB device once, smooth sailing after ... | 08 Jun 2012 |
| 428 | Soarer: | Ah good. Just these pesky Dells to deal with now then! :-D | 08 Jun 2012 |
| 429 | AKIMbO: | Hey guys I need a little help with my teensy install. I'm converting an XT to usb. ... | 19 Jun 2012 |
| 430 | Soarer: | Brown = Vcc Red = Ground White = Data Black = Clock :-) | 19 Jun 2012 |
| 431 | AKIMbO: | Thank you so much Soarer. I was pulling my hair out and second guessing myself with ... | 19 Jun 2012 |
| 432 | Soarer: | Haha, yeah, IBM (and Cherry) sure did pick some unintuitive colours! Good to hear of ... | 19 Jun 2012 |
| 433 | Paranoid: | Hi everyone. I'm also trying to convert XT to USB (IBM model F), but when I wire it l ... | 19 Jun 2012 |
| 434 | Soarer: | Ouch, that doesn't sound good at all - the Teensy shouldn't even be warm :-( Where th ... | 19 Jun 2012 |
| 435 | Paranoid: | The wire colours are in the same order as in the picture (brown-red-white-black) with ... | 19 Jun 2012 |
| 436 | Soarer: | Either Vcc and GND are fine. Hate to say it, but I think somehow the Teensy has died ... | 19 Jun 2012 |
| 437 | Paranoid: | Damn that would suck! I also can connect it to my computer and run and load the LED b ... | 20 Jun 2012 |
| 438 | Soarer: | Reversing Vcc and GND is more likely to damage the keyboard than the Teensy, and I'm ... | 20 Jun 2012 |
| 439 | Paranoid: | Yes, I do have a multimeter :) I did the test that you asked. Let me sum it up: Basic ... | 20 Jun 2012 |
| 440 | Soarer: | I dunno... something doesn't quite add up :-) I don't see how the Teensy would get ho ... | 20 Jun 2012 |
| 441 | Paranoid: | yes that's exactly how I did the current measurement. Maybe there's something wrong w ... | 20 Jun 2012 |
| 442 | REVENGE: | You could double check the wire config by using a multimeter and testing for continui ... | 21 Jun 2012 |
| 443 | Paranoid: | Hi Revenge, I checked that in the beginning. The VCC, ground and data were correct, o ... | 21 Jun 2012 |
| 444 | Soarer: | I think that means you were reading the pinout diagram backwards - it's drawn looking ... | 21 Jun 2012 |
| 445 | Paranoid: | hehe, that would explain why I got the grnd and vcc wrong the first try ^^ the pins a ... | 21 Jun 2012 |
| 446 | Soarer: | Sorry, I missed the update :-) I'm still puzzled why the teensy and cable get hot, wi ... | 22 Jun 2012 |
| 447 | Parak: | For my second F122 refurbishment, I took some of these that I had lying around and fo ... | 24 Jun 2012 |
| 448 | Soarer: | That's pretty neat :-) Put the pins on the back you mean? But then you'd have bits st ... | 24 Jun 2012 |
| 449 | Parak: | It would have looked a bit neater as the d0/d1 pins could have been flush, but then I ... | 24 Jun 2012 |
| 450 | fohat.digs: | I am probably just dense or incompetent, but here are 2 questions: 1. How to I get to ... | 23 Aug 2012 |
| 451 | Soarer: | 1. The article has moved to the first post in this thread ;) 2. Depends... Day-to-day ... | 23 Aug 2012 |
| 452 | neocalm: | Hello Soarer! What a fantastic project, with my beginner skills I never thought I wo ... | 26 Aug 2012 |
| 453 | Soarer: | Well, AB is only 'bad' because it is used to identify the regular 101/102-key keyboa ... | 26 Aug 2012 |
| 454 | neocalm: | Thanks, that makes sense on why "AB" is bad. Turns out that the board has no "JP3" ... | 28 Aug 2012 |
| 455 | Soarer: | Excellent! Actually, the 'force' command only forces the converter to for set 3, it ... | 28 Aug 2012 |
| 456 | neocalm: | That's great to know the Converter doesn't set the Set. So I did do something! :) E ... | 31 Aug 2012 |
| 457 | Soarer: | It isn't. I thought about it, but never got round to adding it, because it didn't rea ... | 31 Aug 2012 |
| 458 | neocalm: | ... well that ended pretty quick :( I was all set for the "bolt-mod" with all the req ... | 01 Sep 2012 |
| 459 | Soarer: | How frustrating :( I guess that means that one of those traces on the plastic sheets ... | 01 Sep 2012 |
| 460 | N8N: | Rear defogger repair kit? | 01 Sep 2012 |
| 461 | Soarer: | Yeah. Or from electronics suppliers (example). I should say I've no idea how well or ... | 01 Sep 2012 |
| 462 | Halvar: | Hi, thank you Soarer for this great piece of software. Another report of a successful ... | 09 Sep 2012 |
| 463 | Soarer: | You're welcome! And good job building it in with LEDs, many people don't bother with ... | 09 Sep 2012 |
| 464 | Halvar: | *danceandsing* Thanks a lot Soarer, that did it! I even did read the post that you l ... | 09 Sep 2012 |
| 465 | Soarer: | Excellent! LOL, I hadn't even noticed the [´] in your post! Thanks for posting the c ... | 09 Sep 2012 |
| 466 | __red__: | Another satisfied customer here - IBM Model F 122 key, 6110344 5 August 1986. :) | 10 Sep 2012 |
| 467 | Krogenar: | I've got two broke-down Model M 122's headed my way -- looking forward to giving this ... | 18 Sep 2012 |
| 468 | fohat.digs: | Something is escaping me here. I am back where I was a month ago at post 451 trying t ... | 18 Sep 2012 |
| 469 | Soarer: | It's usually described as a 270 degree 5 pin DIN (or sometimes 240 degree), whereas t ... | 18 Sep 2012 |
| 470 | Soarer: | Does it recognize the keyboard if you program it with v0.997? There isn't any real di ... | 18 Sep 2012 |
| 471 | fohat.digs: | Thank you. I did this last year with an F-122 in which I installed the Teensy interna ... | 18 Sep 2012 |
| 472 | Soarer: | I think the old config will be fine, and anyway we won't need one yet, to get the key ... | 18 Sep 2012 |
| 473 | fohat.digs: | I think that I have done it several ways. My assumption is that the preferable metho ... | 19 Sep 2012 |
| 474 | Soarer: | I was just checking, since with the Teensy built-in to your other keyboard, the quest ... | 19 Sep 2012 |
| 475 | fohat.digs: | I do have hid_listen but there is nothing for it to listen to ...... Are the pins on ... | 19 Sep 2012 |
| 476 | Soarer: | Odd. Once the Teensy is programmed with the converter code, hid_listen should at leas ... | 19 Sep 2012 |
| 477 | Krogenar: | Thank you Soarer! I think I'm going to try a panel mount because I'd rather not alter ... | 19 Sep 2012 |
| 478 | Soarer: | Ah, the trailing socket wouldn't mean modifying the keyboard, it would be for making ... | 19 Sep 2012 |
| 479 | fohat.digs: | Allow me to clarify the situation and reduce misunderstanding. I have my "old" rig w ... | 19 Sep 2012 |
| 480 | Soarer: | That's exactly what would happen if you programmed it with blinkfast instead of progr ... | 19 Sep 2012 |
| 481 | fohat.digs: | Thank you. Do I need to somehow de-program ore re-format the Teensy from Fast-Blink? ... | 20 Sep 2012 |
| 482 | Soarer: | Hmm, strange. Programming it with the converter hex ought to remove the blinking. Jus ... | 20 Sep 2012 |
| 483 | fohat.digs: | "Something" happened. I went through your steps again. After opening the hex file, pr ... | 20 Sep 2012 |
| 484 | fohat.digs: | Now I am getting a little worried. I plugged an ordinary PS2 keyboard into the Teensy ... | 20 Sep 2012 |
| 485 | Soarer: | OK, progress, it seems to be programmed now :-) Since you're getting some response wh ... | 20 Sep 2012 |
| 486 | fohat.digs: | I keep working on this instead of my "real" work. My working converter is hard-wired ... | 20 Sep 2012 |
| 487 | Soarer: | Don't dismantle your working one! I meant we should be able to get this new one worki ... | 20 Sep 2012 |
| 488 | fohat.digs: | Using a 10-year-old Compaq rubber dome board with PS2 connector, with each key press ... | 20 Sep 2012 |
| 489 | Soarer: | That's a mix of Timeout and Start Bit errors, with a rare Internal error. One possibl ... | 20 Sep 2012 |
| 490 | fohat.digs: | Thanks, but going by your diagram at the beginning of the thread, I think I have it w ... | 20 Sep 2012 |
| 491 | Soarer: | I know you do, but there must be something wrong somewhere! :D Pretty much any standa ... | 20 Sep 2012 |
| 492 | fohat.digs: | Yes, the XT is what I have been working with. I gave up the alligator clips and have ... | 21 Sep 2012 |
| 493 | Soarer: | I think the only way to fully cook the keyboard is to connect power and ground in rev ... | 21 Sep 2012 |
| 494 | fohat.digs: | This is indeed disappointing, if I have carelessly wrecked 2 Model Fs. Is there a rel ... | 21 Sep 2012 |
| 495 | Soarer: | Well I'm not sure that you have totally wrecked them, unless you think you might have ... | 21 Sep 2012 |
| 496 | fohat.digs: | This is going to have to get shelved for a few days. - IF - I did apply the power bac ... | 22 Sep 2012 |
| 497 | Soarer: | OK. I'm sorry that this hasn't gone as smoothly for you as it did last time. Trouble ... | 22 Sep 2012 |
| 498 | fohat.digs: | Depending on how this all plays out, I can send you some dead parts that have no more ... | 22 Sep 2012 |
| 499 | Soarer: | Thanks! I'm still hopeful that it's not that much of a disaster though :) | 22 Sep 2012 |
| 500 | kishy: | If the controller is toast, let's not forget that dfj was making a full replacement.. ... | 24 Sep 2012 |
| 501 | Soarer: | True, I'm not forgetting it, but dfj would need quite some prodding to release code o ... | 24 Sep 2012 |
| 502 | Krogenar: | Fohat, just a heads up -- I got two 122-key Terminal Model M's from eBay. One has a c ... | 25 Sep 2012 |
| 503 | kishy: | I guess with the attachments being lost my huge post showing the differences between ... | 25 Sep 2012 |
| 504 | Soarer: | Unfortunately, Model M controllers don't have the special capacitive sensing chip tha ... | 25 Sep 2012 |
| 505 | oTurtlez: | I've got a Leading Edge DC-2014 and the internal connector has six wires coming out. ... | 26 Sep 2012 |
| 506 | Soarer: | Yeah, I'm afraid they need to be properly identified. Either by using a multimeter, o ... | 26 Sep 2012 |
| 507 | oTurtlez: | Heres another pic focusing more on the traces. It seems the Yellow is definitely the ... | 26 Sep 2012 |
| 508 | Soarer: | LOL, I said DON'T take my guesswork as fact!! :p Still need a pic that shows the tra ... | 26 Sep 2012 |
| 509 | oTurtlez: | Traces of the 14 pin ---> The 40-pin is an 8048 and the 14 pin reads 6A1 8(New line) ... | 26 Sep 2012 |
| 510 | Soarer: | Cool. 74LS125 is a tri-state buffer chip. Black and grey wires both go there, so they ... | 26 Sep 2012 |
| 511 | oTurtlez: | Trying that now, Teensy just came in the mail so I'm getting to the soldering :) Thanks. | 26 Sep 2012 |
| 512 | oTurtlez: | Well my Teensy just arrived so I tried it out and got everything soldered up. Loaded ... | 26 Sep 2012 |
| 513 | Soarer: | Bah :( Is it giving any output to hid_listen when you press keys? Also, with hid_list ... | 26 Sep 2012 |
| 514 | oTurtlez: | It gave no output when keys were pressed, I hadnt used it with the black and grey swa ... | 26 Sep 2012 |
| 515 | fohat.digs: | Sounds like what is happening to me. Could there be a bad batch of Teensys shipping r ... | 27 Sep 2012 |
| 516 | oTurtlez: | As much as I'd like that to be the case so I could get a replacement, All software de ... | 27 Sep 2012 |
| 517 | Halvar: | Hi, from my experience this error means that there's a problem with the connection be ... | 27 Sep 2012 |
| 518 | Soarer: | Oh man, that really sucks... I think the track away from the PD1 pad is on the top si ... | 27 Sep 2012 |
| 519 | oTurtlez: | I really need a better iron. This 25w POS has been with me for far too long. I need s ... | 27 Sep 2012 |
| 520 | oTurtlez: | Do you know if there's any way to reprogram the code to look to PD2 instead of PD1? O ... | 27 Sep 2012 |
| 521 | Soarer: | It would be possible, but the problem is I don't want to add such a build to the rele ... | 27 Sep 2012 |
| 522 | oTurtlez: | I'm guessing it's not as simple as going into the code and changing all PD1 to PD2? ( ... | 27 Sep 2012 |
| 523 | Krogenar: | How would you know if a keyboards controller were faulty, broken? | 27 Sep 2012 |
| 524 | Soarer: | It's written in C :-) The point is, it would be fairly easy for me to mod it, but I d ... | 28 Sep 2012 |
| 525 | Soarer: | That is a properly sorted 122-key! The LEDs and relegendable keys really make it sple ... | 28 Sep 2012 |
| 526 | Soarer: | From the IBM PC Technical Reference... So although the IBM keyboards didn't use the R ... | 28 Sep 2012 |
| 527 | Krogenar: | Soarer, just wanted to give you a huge thanks! Got your converter working late last n ... | 03 Oct 2012 |
| 528 | Soarer: | That's good to hear! Let's have some pics :D | 03 Oct 2012 |
| 529 | Soarer: | Paranoid's dead XT arrived, and I started examining it. Testing revealed a complete s ... | 03 Oct 2012 |
| 530 | __red__: | Any sign of bulging or other physical defecT? | 04 Oct 2012 |
| 531 | Soarer: | Not that I can tell. I'm sure it would've been more dramatic without the USB port's o ... | 04 Oct 2012 |
| 532 | page2pagepro: | Please note, for IBM Model M 1390572, the image above is for female socket, not male ... | 05 Oct 2012 |
| 533 | Soarer: | That on github is hasu's great repo :) There's no source code available for my conver ... | 06 Oct 2012 |
| 534 | Soarer: | Recently I've been working with oTurtlez trying to figure out his Leading Edge DC-201 ... | 06 Oct 2012 |
| 535 | page2pagepro: | Anti-Ghosting with Teensy? Using tool, http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/antig ... | 14 Oct 2012 |
| 536 | Soarer: | I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the Model M isn't NKRO and the converter can't chang ... | 14 Oct 2012 |
| 537 | __red__: | I think we as a community need to buy soarer a logic analyzer. Given what he's given ... | 14 Oct 2012 |
| 538 | Soarer: | Thanks red! Actually, I've already got this one with a wing... here's some sniffing! ... | 14 Oct 2012 |
| 539 | Krogenar: | Is my converter weird or something? It's working -- if press keys on my 122 Terminal ... | 15 Oct 2012 |
| 540 | Halvar: | @Krogenar: To see the scan set, you'll have to have the hid_listen.exe window open w ... | 15 Oct 2012 |
| 541 | Soarer: | Thanks Halvar, that's all great! Krogenar, you don't really need to know which scan s ... | 15 Oct 2012 |
| 542 | urbanus: | Works with my 83-key Model F XT -- typing on it right now! :) Thank you very much So ... | 15 Oct 2012 |
| 543 | Krogenar: | Yes, I discovered that when I remove the keyboard cable and reinsert, that there's mo ... | 15 Oct 2012 |
| 544 | alaricljs: | If I recall from my reading of this thread.... you're not supposed to detach/attach t ... | 15 Oct 2012 |
| 545 | Krogenar: | Ok, here we go. Keep in mind I have no experience building electronics. My goal was t ... | 15 Oct 2012 |
| 546 | Soarer: | Hmm, that should work to clear things back to the defaults. You can check by running ... | 15 Oct 2012 |
| 547 | Krogenar: | I tried using Halvar's config file -- worked beautifully. I'm trying to find some nic ... | 16 Oct 2012 |
| 548 | Halvar: | The painting restoration story is hilarious. :D Some symbol fonts I found and partly ... | 16 Oct 2012 |
| 549 | Krogenar: | Yeah, she started out trying to restore Jesus, and wound up making him look like Mr. ... | 16 Oct 2012 |
| 550 | Soarer: | Nothing exciting... it's just the Window's menu key. | 16 Oct 2012 |
| 551 | Halvar: | http://www.clker.com/clipart-15445.html | 16 Oct 2012 |
| 552 | Soarer: | New improved version (sorry __red__!) now samples whenever any of PD0 to PD3 change, ... | 01 Nov 2012 |
| 553 | Arbiter343GS: | I actually did this project about a month ago after I bought a 122 key model M off of ... | 08 Nov 2012 |
| 554 | fohat.digs: | I have used Key Tweak, but most people seem to prefer Auto Hot Key. I plan to try AHK ... | 08 Nov 2012 |
| 555 | Arbiter343GS: | Ive been trying auto hotkey but I have no idea how to go about programming the extra ... | 08 Nov 2012 |
| 556 | Soarer: | Remappings are best done in the converter because then there's no restrictions (like ... | 08 Nov 2012 |
| 557 | fohat.digs: | Do you remember that I went through hours/days of anguish trying to get a Teensy to w ... | 08 Nov 2012 |
| 558 | Soarer: | That's a tough one to call! I the only likely way to electrically damage a Teensy w ... | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 559 | fohat.digs: | I emailed "Paul" and he was nice but I am not going to push for a replacement. He is ... | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 560 | Soarer: | Yes, that is a relief. I've used about half a dozen Teensies, and had no bad ones. I ... | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 561 | wcass: | it is actually quite easy. first, go to the DOCS folder and double-click on . since ... | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 562 | fohat.digs: | The last leg of this trip has been surprisingly difficult, but I now have my working ... | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 563 | Krogenar: | Nice build fohat! | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 564 | fohat.digs: | Arrgh! I spoke too soon about my ecstasy. My old build, F-122 with internal Teensy an ... | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 565 | Halvar: | hid_listen only shows the ID when the teensy is started. So to see it, unplug your ke ... | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 566 | Soarer: | Yes, the solution is to use a config file and do the remapping on the Teensy - wcass' ... | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 567 | fohat.digs: | Thank you. When I hot plug the Teensy, I get: wED rFE !!FEwED rFE !!FEwED rFE ! ... | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 568 | Soarer: | You don't have to give up on remapping Pause if you do the remapping in the converter ... | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 569 | Halvar: | I don't know if there's a difference between the default mapping of an M-122 and an F ... | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 570 | fohat.digs: | Finding the picture (not easy) that went along with my own post at #223 allowed me to ... | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 571 | Soarer: | Halvar, that's true... since v0.997 that Pause mapping moved to legacy.sc. It never w ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 572 | Soarer: | fohat, to give a quick idea of the process of getting config 'in the converter', the ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 573 | Arbiter343GS: | I pretty much understand how the entire process works now, but Im stumped on how to g ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 574 | Soarer: | On Windows, the simplest way to do it without the drag-drop into the command prompt w ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 575 | zz: | hi! and thank you so much for making this awesome project! i can confirm that it work ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 576 | Soarer: | Data line is stuck high - hopefully just a bad connection :) | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 577 | zz: | aw man and a support reaction time of ten minutes! there is no hid manufacturer that ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 578 | Arbiter343GS: | That worked, thank you for all the help! And wow. I am definitely blind, I was scouri ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 579 | Soarer: | Yeah, scas takes two arguments, so dropping a file onto it in the GUI doesn't work. ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 580 | fohat.digs: | Thank you again, you always come through. I was having a similar problem to Arbiter, ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 581 | Soarer: | We can most definitely get it much better than having to live with any annoyances, bu ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 582 | fohat.digs: | Sorry to make life difficult. First, I had already reset everything in KeyTweak back ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 583 | Soarer: | For the top-right numpad key, you need to remap EXTRA_SYSRQ, and the centre key in th ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 584 | fohat.digs: | My hat is off to you once again. And please, never let questions about keyboards get ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 585 | Soarer: | All stocked up now :cool: If Pause hadn't been EXTRA_SYSRQ, it would've been PA ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 586 | fohat.digs: | Sweet! Even better than I thought. I guess that in England you don't have "blue laws" ... | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 587 | Soarer: | No, nothing like 'blue laws', but big shops are limited to I think 6 hours opening on ... | 11 Nov 2012 |
| 588 | AKIMbO: | A big shout out to Soarer...I just want to say thank you again for this awesome conve ... | 11 Nov 2012 |
| 589 | fohat.digs: | Good Luck! What was that one dated, April 1984? The oldest one I have is a 6110344 da ... | 11 Nov 2012 |
| 590 | AKIMbO: | April 1984....Part # 6110344. Foam mat appeared to be in decent condition and the me ... | 11 Nov 2012 |
| 591 | zz: | damn. why did i touch it. it was running perfectly :'( after very carefully resolder ... | 11 Nov 2012 |
| 592 | fohat.digs: | What wires? As much as I have tinkered with other stuff, I have not touched any "inte ... | 11 Nov 2012 |
| 593 | zz: | i meant the cable.. i just wanted to make it shorter to fit inside. | 11 Nov 2012 |
| 594 | Soarer: | So it's worse than before? Not even the rFF codes now? :( Most of the ways to damage ... | 11 Nov 2012 |
| 595 | zz: | phew! got it back to work on pd3 and pd4 with the alternate firmware a few pages bac ... | 11 Nov 2012 |
| 596 | Soarer: | Shame about the damage, but at least it's working now :) | 11 Nov 2012 |
| 597 | AKIMbO: | Mmmmm.....success. ANSI layout. Thanks again Soarer! | 24 Nov 2012 |
| 598 | Soarer: | Nicely done... and very clean! | 24 Nov 2012 |
| 599 | AKIMbO: | I'm having a bit of an issue with the converter. When I run the command (scwr akimbo ... | 24 Nov 2012 |
| 600 | Soarer: | That's odd. No errors from 'scas akimbo.cfg akimbo.scb', presumably? | 24 Nov 2012 |
| 601 | AKIMbO: | ^You know what I did wrong. I didn't use type .cfg when i ran 'scas akimbo.cfg akimb ... | 24 Nov 2012 |
| 602 | Soarer: | Ahahahahahaha... haaaa.... :p | 24 Nov 2012 |
| 603 | AKIMbO: | :-[ Hehehehe | 24 Nov 2012 |
| 604 | Soarer: | :-* (there is no bro-hug smiley, so...) | 24 Nov 2012 |
| 605 | fohat.digs: | Great job, AKIMbO. I have been working on my instructions for a project similar to th ... | 25 Nov 2012 |
| 606 | fohat.digs: | Just when I thought it was safe to go in the water again ..... I lost my numpad. The ... | 27 Nov 2012 |
| 607 | Soarer: | What an odd problem, since the CURRENT_USER setting should override the .DEFAUL ... | 27 Nov 2012 |
| 608 | fohat.digs: | I think that .DEFAULT must have blown everybody's minds. The choices were 0, 1, or 2 ... | 27 Nov 2012 |
| 609 | Soarer: | PLEASE VOTE for my converter in the Deskthority Awards 2012: Best input device mod 20 ... | 07 Dec 2012 |
| 610 | fohat.digs: | Everybody vote for Soarer. Without him, I would never have known the joy I have exper ... | 07 Dec 2012 |
| 611 | Soarer: | At least I can't lose to thin ABS keycaps again this year!! That made me sad, but my ... | 07 Dec 2012 |
| 612 | Krogenar: | Voted. Possibly twice. ;) | 08 Dec 2012 |
| 613 | Soarer: | Full source and binaries for the logic analyzer now posted on DT :D | 08 Dec 2012 |
| 614 | JesuswasaZombie: | http://learn.adafruit.com/usb-next-keyboard-with-arduino-micro/overview How cute, the ... | 09 Dec 2012 |
| 615 | Soarer: | Well maybe they are - it's a different protocol, after all! Pains me to see bit-bangi ... | 09 Dec 2012 |
| 616 | precarious: | http://deskthority.net/wiki/File:G80-0777.pdf I purchased a Teensy the other day to t ... | 11 Dec 2012 |
| 617 | Soarer: | Difficult to say what that extra ROM chip changes - it could be an entirely different ... | 11 Dec 2012 |
| 618 | Halvar: | Quite remarkable -- I have never seen an Amiga keyboard like that. AFAIK, the Amiga ... | 11 Dec 2012 |
| 619 | precarious: | The seller of the keyboard said it was for an Amiga 1000, so I suppose that makes sen ... | 11 Dec 2012 |
| 620 | Soarer: | Sure, this would be a great way to convert a Dolch! I don't know if there are any con ... | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 621 | metalliqaz: | Well this was an easy project. Zero to typing with my Model-M with surprisingly litt ... | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 622 | Soarer: | Many thanks to everyone who voted for my converter :D Deskthority Awards - Best input ... | 15 Dec 2012 |
| 623 | precarious: | the competition didn't stand a chance, congratulations :) | 15 Dec 2012 |
| 624 | fohat.digs: | Great work, Soarer! I guess that you have been working on this for the better part of ... | 15 Dec 2012 |
| 625 | Krogenar: | Congrats Soarer! | 16 Dec 2012 |
| 626 | precarious: | Received my Teensy and PS2 connector today, managed to get the Dolch working over USB ... | 18 Dec 2012 |
| 627 | Soarer: | Certainly some (most?) WYSE keyboards aren't handled by the converter, since they hav ... | 18 Dec 2012 |
| 628 | Soarer: | is now available in the OP! Nothing essential for most people, but it does have a lo ... | 20 Dec 2012 |
| 629 | samwisekoi: | Congratulations on the win! Excellent work! I am making a 60% "Model M", but since I ... | 02 Jan 2013 |
| 630 | Soarer: | Thanks! Yes you can - that was actually the first goal of the converter, to handle th ... | 02 Jan 2013 |
| 631 | samwisekoi: | Awesome! I shall now go read all 21 pages of this thread and order Soarer parts and ... | 02 Jan 2013 |
| 632 | esoomenona: | I want to mangle an actual IBM keyboard. They're cheap and plentiful! | 02 Jan 2013 |
| 633 | Soarer: | Oh I don't care if you mangle a dozen Model Ms... just leave the Model Fs be! And def ... | 02 Jan 2013 |
| 634 | Halvar: | Just downloaded the new version. Your documentation is even more insanely great than ... | 04 Jan 2013 |
| 635 | Soarer: | Thanks! But really, I just add a bit here, a bit there, and still wonder what I've fo ... | 05 Jan 2013 |
| 636 | fohat.digs: | I see that the Teensy 3.0 is out, and looks like a significantly more robust board th ... | 10 Jan 2013 |
| 637 | alaricljs: | It's like the difference between PowerPC Macs and Intel Macs. Which is to say, you c ... | 10 Jan 2013 |
| 638 | Soarer: | It would be a chore to convert the code. But the real problem isn't the code, it's th ... | 10 Jan 2013 |
| 639 | larsolav: | Hey. Great work on this converter. I'm using this for my 122 IBM Model M. I have a co ... | 11 Jan 2013 |
| 640 | fohat.digs: | I use the method wcass described in post 562. it works great. Soarer gave you the com ... | 11 Jan 2013 |
| 641 | larsolav: | Oh, thanks. Now it works :) The only thing is that I can't find the windows key in t ... | 11 Jan 2013 |
| 642 | fohat.digs: | LGUI & RGUI are the Windows keys. Anybody would have guessed that, wouldn't they? ... | 11 Jan 2013 |
| 643 | larsolav: | Apparently not me :P Thanks for the help anyways :D | 11 Jan 2013 |
| 644 | Soarer: | I suppose if you know it's a modifier you could guess by process of elimination, but ... | 11 Jan 2013 |
| 645 | poxeclipse: | It looks great. Can you list he material you used ? | 12 Jan 2013 |
| 646 | metalliqaz: | Hmmm... I can try. I bought the parts at a local electronics shop so I don't have a ... | 12 Jan 2013 |
| 647 | poxeclipse: | I just received a 6110668 today. Does somebody have a config file for it ? Thanks. | 14 Jan 2013 |
| 648 | fohat.digs: | Flash the Teensy according to the OP, and use wcass's technique in post 562 to assign ... | 14 Jan 2013 |
| 649 | Soarer: | Halvar posted a 122-key config that might be a good starting point. It's also in the ... | 14 Jan 2013 |
| 650 | poxeclipse: | Question about wiring. In your document it shows Clock connected to PD1 and Data to P ... | 15 Jan 2013 |
| 651 | Soarer: | The document is correct :D | 15 Jan 2013 |
| 652 | Krogenar: | Yes, Halvar's config file got me in the right direction for my 122-key project. Glad ... | 15 Jan 2013 |
| 653 | poxeclipse: | Thank you Soarer. I'm typing on it now. I used Halvar's configuration file. As typi ... | 16 Jan 2013 |
| 654 | poxeclipse: | I do have another terminal keyboard, a Model M. I kept it as a donor, but it is in su ... | 16 Jan 2013 |
| 655 | fohat.digs: | After you are spoiled by the Model F, even a Model M is unsatisfying. I don't underst ... | 16 Jan 2013 |
| 656 | poxeclipse: | If only was a way to make the switches lighter on Model M ! I like the layout and the ... | 16 Jan 2013 |
| 657 | Krogenar: | Gah! Stop saying this sort of stuff! My addiction is already too far gone as it is! L ... | 16 Jan 2013 |
| 658 | Soarer: | Model Fs are far easier to modify than Model Ms... so there's really no excuse not to ... | 16 Jan 2013 |
| 659 | poxeclipse: | I had the same preconceived idea about the vertical Enter. Now I'm typing on this 122 ... | 16 Jan 2013 |
| 660 | poxeclipse: | Question for Soarer. Does your converter work with an IBM 6052101 display writer for ... | 19 Jan 2013 |
| 661 | Soarer: | No :( The problem is that they don't send release codes for all but a couple of keys. ... | 19 Jan 2013 |
| 662 | Hubbert: | Is it possible to connect one keyboard to two computers using two Converters? If so, ... | 25 Jan 2013 |
| 663 | kishy: | For information's sake: My previously reported success with the converter 'surviving' ... | 30 Jan 2013 |
| 664 | Soarer: | That's an interesting idea, and I think it could work. Connecting grounds ought to be ... | 01 Feb 2013 |
| 665 | Soarer: | Hmm, not much to go on, and more difficult if it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't : ... | 01 Feb 2013 |
| 666 | poxeclipse: | Soarer, kishi already pointed out problems with the converter at boot phase, but I st ... | 02 Feb 2013 |
| 667 | Soarer: | It should already work in BIOS and during boot, on pretty much everything. As long as ... | 02 Feb 2013 |
| 668 | Soarer: | Just noting a report of a kernel panic in OpenBSD on a Samsung n130 netbook. | 02 Feb 2013 |
| 669 | fohat.digs: | I think I have mentioned this before, but, again, this morning, I wired up my "univer ... | 08 Feb 2013 |
| 670 | Soarer: | I can't remember if you have mentioned this problem before! I remember the other outb ... | 09 Feb 2013 |
| 671 | fohat.digs: | Thank you for your reply. I never had a problem with the official Model F terminal co ... | 10 Feb 2013 |
| 672 | Soarer: | Yes, it does sound like a problem with the connector. You'll hate me for saying it, b ... | 11 Feb 2013 |
| 673 | fohat.digs: | Can't mess with it until tomorrow, but if I wired it wrong I will feel like a monumen ... | 11 Feb 2013 |
| 674 | Soarer: | I can't think of anything else that would explain zero output to hid_listen (since yo ... | 11 Feb 2013 |
| 675 | fohat.digs: | I re-worked all my wiring, and the keyboard LEDs do flash when the USB is plugged in, ... | 11 Feb 2013 |
| 676 | Soarer: | OK, power is good. Does hid_listen ever actually say 'Listening:', which comes after ... | 11 Feb 2013 |
| 677 | fohat.digs: | Thank you for your patience. I gave up on that problem, maybe I will revisit it in a ... | 19 Feb 2013 |
| 678 | alaricljs: | Are you running Windows 7? The on screen keyboard (Control Panel -> Ease of Access) ... | 19 Feb 2013 |
| 679 | Soarer: | I have no further ideas on standalone converter problem; there's just not enough clue ... | 19 Feb 2013 |
| 680 | fohat.digs: | Good answers, both. After sleeping on it, I realized that I am an idiot. I use keybo ... | 19 Feb 2013 |
| 681 | Soarer: | Interesting... it must be Windows 7 remembering the num-lock state. I don't know if V ... | 19 Feb 2013 |
| 682 | rknize: | I finally got off my butt and got the layouts on this F122 and my AT the way I want. ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 683 | metalliqaz: | Where do you get that keyboardtest.exe? I googled it but there seem to be many diffe ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 684 | Soarer: | rknize - Thanks for posting configs :) Is it OK if I include them in the next release ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 685 | fohat.digs: | keyboardtest.exe is a horrible thing to Google, you would think that it would turn u ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 686 | rknize: | That would be great. Even dropping a hint in the comment column of the codes page wo ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 687 | Halvar: | I posted my M-122 configuration in this earlier post, and it's also in the newest dis ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 688 | Krogenar: | Rknize, how would you describe typing on a F-122 (makes it sound like a fighter jet, ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 689 | fohat.digs: | The large Model Fs are perhaps not quite as loud as the small ones, just because of g ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 690 | Soarer: | For single oddities like that key, I'm not sure that's the best way to do it - perple ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 691 | Soarer: | Here's a draft of the new section, which will go just after the Overview section on t ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 692 | rknize: | As a long-time Model M user (bought my first one new in 1994), the Model F is the ult ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 693 | rknize: | Awesome. What really threw me was that the codes at the HID level for set 3 were act ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 694 | rknize: | Ah yes, I see it now. I guess I didn't look because the file name didn't give any hi ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 695 | Soarer: | The initial translation to HID tries to make a common ground ready for configs. That ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 696 | Krogenar: | rkinize, fohat, thanks for your feedback on the Model F -- I've got a Model F in the ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 697 | AKIMbO: | F122's have a sharper, more shrill ping sound when compared to AT F and XT boards. F ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 698 | rknize: | It's a very personal choice. If you like loud keyboards, the F won't disappoint. | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 699 | rknize: | Yeah, I know what you mean. The docs are a great reference once you know what questi ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 700 | Soarer: | Hmm, I dunno, each person's project has different goals! I think it's a better approa ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 701 | wcass: | ROTFL i recomend "Aqua Key Test" - much easier to search for. download from OTD or GH ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 702 | fohat.digs: | I don't get it. Aqua Key Test would seem to be OK if you are testing an ANSI keyboar ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 703 | Soarer: | Aqua's is great if you want bypass autohotkey etc., but I also (most of the time, act ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 704 | metalliqaz: | So which do you use, Soarer? ;D | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 705 | Krogenar: | If you're going to be updating the documentation anyway, I think it would be a great ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 706 | Soarer: | Well my own, of course! :D I started writing it before I knew of Aqua's (perhaps bef ... | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 707 | wcass: | at one time, i dreamt of writing a GUI for Soarer's that would be as easy to use as t ... | 07 Mar 2013 |
| 708 | sleepy916: | I haven't posted in here yet but I certainly have read this thread more than a few ti ... | 09 Mar 2013 |
| 709 | Soarer: | Oh, that's cool :cool: But something's wrong somewhere because it should have clock ... | 10 Mar 2013 |
| 710 | sleepy916: | Ahh...my copy and paste skills.. :( | 10 Mar 2013 |
| 711 | Krogenar: | I juuuuust unpacked a Model F 122-key (my first Model F) and I notice it has the same ... | 11 Mar 2013 |
| 712 | rknize: | There are two sets of feet. The inner ones are a bit tricky to coax out of the outer ... | 11 Mar 2013 |
| 713 | fohat.digs: | Those double feet area trick if you want to take the case apart - pay VERY close atte ... | 11 Mar 2013 |
| 714 | Krogenar: | Really? Gotta give those a try. Do you guys think my Soarer converter will work with ... | 11 Mar 2013 |
| 715 | Krogenar: | Yeah, this is way more than 6 pounds. | 11 Mar 2013 |
| 716 | rknize: | If it's the same connector and the converter is setup for the terminal key map, it sh ... | 11 Mar 2013 |
| 717 | Soarer: | Model M 122-key (square label and hat key vintage): 6lbs 3.5oz / 2.8kg :) Model F 12 ... | 11 Mar 2013 |
| 718 | Krogenar: | Well, it "just works" -- except one key won't work. Just ONE, lol. So far I've tried ... | 11 Mar 2013 |
| 719 | rknize: | Sounds like the spring is bent or not seating in the key cap correctly. If its the la ... | 11 Mar 2013 |
| 720 | poxeclipse: | rknize is right, it happens during shipping, some hammers move and the spring doesn't ... | 12 Mar 2013 |
| 721 | sleepy916: | I noticed that the Model Fs were harder to get the keycap on correctly than the Model Ms. | 12 Mar 2013 |
| 722 | Krogenar: | I'm going to give that a try tonight. Pregnant Mrs. Krogenar was very needy last nigh ... | 12 Mar 2013 |
| 723 | simkev: | If you have a USB keboard that has NKRO over a usb to PS2 adapter could you make that ... | 12 Mar 2013 |
| 724 | alaricljs: | If the teensy is configured with a firmware that interfaces to a PS/2 board and suppo ... | 12 Mar 2013 |
| 725 | Soarer: | If it's a keyboard with a captive cable (i.e. no USB socket on the keyboard) it might ... | 13 Mar 2013 |
| 726 | Krogenar: | rkinize, fohat, I recognize your expertise with the Model F. I leaned the 'board back ... | 13 Mar 2013 |
| 727 | fohat.digs: | It can take several attempts to get it to seat properly. Sometimes they are just stub ... | 13 Mar 2013 |
| 728 | rknize: | Great! The same trick works on the M, too. If you look under the key cap, there is ... | 13 Mar 2013 |
| 729 | Soarer: | I just added a v1.11 update to the first post: The last change, to prevent debug outp ... | 06 Apr 2013 |
| 730 | Halvar: | Thanks Soarer for constantly pushing this forward! :cool: | 08 Apr 2013 |
| 731 | jpeart: | Soarer, thank you for all your efforts in developing this firmware. I spent the last ... | 12 Apr 2013 |
| 732 | fohat.digs: | Oh, no! It's that pesky fohat.digs again! A couple of months ago I had a big problem ... | 12 Apr 2013 |
| 733 | rknize: | Look for a BIOS upgrade? This weird boot behavior with keyboards usually has to do w ... | 12 Apr 2013 |
| 734 | vipjun: | Just wanted to show my appreciation for this project. thanks soarer! | 16 Apr 2013 |
| 735 | AKIMbO: | Successfully modded one of my AT F's to a traditional ANSI layout (using a function b ... | 23 Apr 2013 |
| 736 | Halvar: | That's beautiful. I wish Unicomp's European resellers had those media keycaps to use ... | 23 Apr 2013 |
| 737 | AKIMbO: | Capslock + 1= F1...all the way through Caplock + = which is F12 | 23 Apr 2013 |
| 738 | sleepy916: | That looks to be in pristine condition! Now just send it to my house, I'll pm you my ... | 24 Apr 2013 |
| 739 | AKIMbO: | It is...I actually struggled with whether I wanted to mod it or keep it in stock cond ... | 24 Apr 2013 |
| 740 | Halvar: | After looking at other Model F pictures: wow, how much did you have to mod here? :ee ... | 24 Apr 2013 |
| 741 | Krogenar: | Akimbo, I'd love to do what you did (more ANSI-like layout) with my Model F-122, but ... | 24 Apr 2013 |
| 742 | fohat.digs: | The mod is totally easy, assuming that you can take the board apart and put it back t ... | 24 Apr 2013 |
| 743 | AKIMbO: | Yup, it sure did look like that (small backspace and all). Like fohat said, it isn't ... | 25 Apr 2013 |
| 744 | Retrete: | Nice post! I have a pseudoterminal kevex ray 7000CM, and I want to adapt the keyboar ... | 27 Apr 2013 |
| 745 | Soarer: | Beautiful! A bit crazy in construction, with a PCB wire-wrapping! Not something thi ... | 27 Apr 2013 |
| 746 | Retrete: | I don't know exactly what type of switches are, non clicky and the loudest I've seen ... | 27 Apr 2013 |
| 747 | Soarer: | They look rather like Cherry M7 (or M6?) with the 'T' mount stem... Catalogue 1982, p ... | 27 Apr 2013 |
| 748 | Retrete: | I've already disassemble the keyboard cover and I took a couple of photos, It isn't l ... | 27 Apr 2013 |
| 749 | Soarer: | Hah! I wasn't expecting it to be a double-sided PCB... at least it makes one side ver ... | 28 Apr 2013 |
| 750 | Retrete: | I will try to get a multimeter and verify that. I don't want to break everything xD, ... | 28 Apr 2013 |
| 751 | Soarer: | If the chips are removed carefully, nothing will break and it could all be put back h ... | 28 Apr 2013 |
| 752 | Retrete: | Still a good choice?On ebay for ~13€ with free shipping. | 28 Apr 2013 |
| 753 | Soarer: | Probably! However, two points... The Teensy loader (as in, what gets code onto the ch ... | 28 Apr 2013 |
| 754 | Retrete: | So teensy loader will only work with a teensy board correct? Analyze the front part o ... | 28 Apr 2013 |
| 755 | Soarer: | Yes, essentially that's correct. There's two other common ones... Atmel's FLIP works ... | 28 Apr 2013 |
| 756 | neocalm: | Sorry - misposted. | 29 Apr 2013 |
| 757 | neocalm: | Well Soarer - it only took nine months but after experimenting with conductive paint, ... | 29 Apr 2013 |
| 758 | Retrete: | I managed to get a multimeter, I don't know If is not working correctly or I am def s ... | 29 Apr 2013 |
| 759 | Soarer: | Right... on a resistance setting, you should find the meter reads "OL" or goes blank ... | 29 Apr 2013 |
| 760 | Retrete: | Multimeter doesn't work well, in "AUDIBLE CONTINUITY TEST" never beeps, In the ... | 29 Apr 2013 |
| 761 | Soarer: | Shame about the buzzer, that does make it easier :( Some relatively high resistance i ... | 29 Apr 2013 |
| 762 | metalliqaz: | Get a proper meter dude. It is a worthwhile investment. | 29 Apr 2013 |
| 763 | Retrete: | Yep, I don't learn the lesson, months ago I bought a (welder?) for 3€ in a chinese sh ... | 29 Apr 2013 |
| 764 | Soarer: | Cool, the switches are simple contact switches then :cool: How about finding a connec ... | 29 Apr 2013 |
| 765 | Retrete: | Found! I will record a video , it's a little bit weird The video; | 29 Apr 2013 |
| 766 | Soarer: | Not weird at all, it's just how I'd expect it! Pressing the switch joins one connecti ... | 30 Apr 2013 |
| 767 | Retrete: | Both goes to ~0 Im now getting which pins makes nearly zero, I will post now the sch ... | 30 Apr 2013 |
| 768 | Soarer: | That pic's nice and clear :D So these are all of the 22 places that a new controller ... | 30 Apr 2013 |
| 769 | Retrete: | Trying to understand the left&right shift issues I've found this; Tomorrow I'll make ... | 30 Apr 2013 |
| 770 | Soarer: | There will be lots of ground connections around... and one side of each of Left Shift ... | 30 Apr 2013 |
| 771 | Retrete: | I didn't metioned yet,I also have a (space saver?) Teletype M43 keyboard, the clickie ... | 30 Apr 2013 |
| 772 | Soarer: | Sure, why not! Maybe get one of each - since that has less keys a Teensy 2.0 might be ... | 30 Apr 2013 |
| 773 | rknize: | If anyone is old enough to remember the 4000-series CMOS logic gates, they were/are v ... | 30 Apr 2013 |
| 774 | Retrete: | W/o pressed ~0 , and when pressed default 1 value, the scheme; Edit: Teensy-with his ... | 30 Apr 2013 |
| 775 | Soarer: | I'm confident that the first one can be made to work. The M43 though, after seeing th ... | 30 Apr 2013 |
| 776 | Retrete: | The package arrived today! Only 1 week :eek: It's extremely necessary to remove all ... | 07 May 2013 |
| 777 | Soarer: | 1 week is good! Technically you get away with not removing the chips, but there is ... | 08 May 2013 |
| 778 | Retrete: | Chips removed, but I don't know If I also need to remove the resistances or&and the " ... | 09 May 2013 |
| 779 | Soarer: | The other resistors etc can stay. Most will now be disconnected from the switch matri ... | 09 May 2013 |
| 780 | Retrete: | Like this ? :p Now I'll try to see how the rest pins could be connected w/o soldering ... | 09 May 2013 |
| 781 | Soarer: | Unfortunately (?), you will most likely need to do some soldering to get this done! I ... | 09 May 2013 |
| 782 | Retrete: | With patience and bending slowly a little bit the front pins I finally managed to con ... | 10 May 2013 |
| 783 | Soarer: | That way round, but moved along 3 positions - so the X,Y,Z pins are not connected int ... | 10 May 2013 |
| 784 | Retrete: | I bought enough pin-adapter, so I'll probably connect all the pins to the teensy usin ... | 10 May 2013 |
| 785 | Soarer: | Just that there is already an LED on the Teensy, which uses PD6 :) | 10 May 2013 |
| 786 | Retrete: | Solderless cables arrived, I will edit now with some photos If the position are the d ... | 14 May 2013 |
| 787 | mkawa: | this post is to for force alaric to post the bom and howto for this awesome soarer he ... | 14 May 2013 |
| 788 | Soarer: | Dang... stuff happened! My code basically seems to work now, at least on Teensy 2.0. ... | 15 May 2013 |
| 789 | Retrete: | Of course! It will be a pleasure testing it ;D I'm also making a video-resume of the ... | 15 May 2013 |
| 790 | Soarer: | OK, I'll try and put it together tomorrow evening. Are you running Windows? | 15 May 2013 |
| 791 | Retrete: | yes, Windows 7. | 15 May 2013 |
| 792 | Soarer: | Cool, I won't need to build the Linux or Mac tools then :D | 15 May 2013 |
| 793 | Soarer: | That is a really nice little case! | 16 May 2013 |
| 794 | Soarer: | Right, here's a zip of controller stuff, which should be all you need for the moment. ... | 16 May 2013 |
| 795 | alaricljs: | Case: Mouser - 789-S3A-301210 Connector: Mouser - 568-NYS325 -PS/2 alt: 161-381/6-E ... | 16 May 2013 |
| 796 | Retrete: | After loading the Hex onto the teensy, opening scar or scwr result in a pop up of les ... | 16 May 2013 |
| 797 | Soarer: | Apart from the not found message, that's all as expected. The tools are command line ... | 16 May 2013 |
| 798 | Retrete: | No more error! It ends w/o problems; BUT, hid_listen doesn't work, I have touched all ... | 16 May 2013 |
| 799 | Soarer: | Hmm, that'a puzzle. It seems that hid_listen has connected OK, just nothing is being ... | 16 May 2013 |
| 800 | Retrete: | I didn't do any ground connection :confused: , also I have no idea who to ground it, ... | 16 May 2013 |
| 801 | Soarer: | I know it doesn't look like much, but I think that gives me something to go and inves ... | 16 May 2013 |
| 802 | Soarer: | OK, this .hex should fix that problem. Let's see what the next one is :)) | 17 May 2013 |
| 803 | Retrete: | Now it seems to recognize the keys, but not all. (cross ones not working, maybe a sol ... | 17 May 2013 |
| 804 | Soarer: | The two shifts and the top-right one won't work until ground is connected. I'd guess ... | 17 May 2013 |
| 805 | Retrete: | This weekend I will resold the whole teensy, It doesn't deserve his actual look :p | 17 May 2013 |
| 806 | Soarer: | Be very careful if you do that! It's easy to lift a pad from the Teensy PCB when deso ... | 17 May 2013 |
| 807 | Retrete: | It was the socket at the end, now all the keys except shifts are working. I solder th ... | 18 May 2013 |
| 808 | Soarer: | Fail only when the wire is connected, or still failed with it removed? Sorry, I meant ... | 18 May 2013 |
| 809 | Retrete: | Fail only with the wire connected. I'll test it with the multimeter. Thats the reaso ... | 18 May 2013 |
| 810 | Soarer: | Oh, the Soarer Config file... is kevex.sc. It's just a text file. I think that resist ... | 18 May 2013 |
| 811 | Retrete: | Resistor pack = ? Only remove the cilindric ones? Should I cut them?  | 18 May 2013 |
| 812 | Soarer: | Nono... only the greeny-white one at the end. It looks like it's in a socket, so remo ... | 18 May 2013 |
| 813 | Retrete: | Done, now it only show 2 digits :cool: Now Im trying to find the ground pin | 18 May 2013 |
| 814 | Soarer: | Cool! The ground might still turn out to be where I thought, since that resistor pack ... | 18 May 2013 |
| 815 | Retrete: | With the pin connected to the double circle on(top right), the hid listen detect the ... | 18 May 2013 |
| 816 | Soarer: | Hmm, 'unstrobed' isn't working for me either - I must've broken something in the code :( | 18 May 2013 |
| 817 | Soarer: | And indeed I had - simply hadn't joined up two bits of code... | 18 May 2013 |
| 818 | Retrete: | YES! Shifts and reset keys now working!!! :p Later I'll try to map the keys, hope it ... | 18 May 2013 |
| 819 | Soarer: | Excellent! I'm not sure if you're lucky or unlucky to be the first... anyone else can ... | 18 May 2013 |
| 820 | Retrete: | Hmm, I don't understand pretty well how to config the kevex.sc, for e.g I press the " ... | 18 May 2013 |
| 821 | Soarer: | The thing to enter is a 'Name' from the Codes page of the docs, so for the shifts... ... | 18 May 2013 |
| 822 | Retrete: | YESSSSSSS! I'll post the good video when finished :cool: . | 19 May 2013 |
| 823 | Soarer: | Haha, that's fantastic! You're welcome! | 19 May 2013 |
| 824 | poxeclipse: | That's great. I watched it from the beginning, and looks very nice. We can try those ... | 19 May 2013 |
| 825 | Retrete: | GOOD video :p http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JYky9GAvQ8&feature=youtu.be | 22 May 2013 |
| 826 | Soarer: | I didn't realise you were going to do that with a screen, and keeping the whole casin ... | 23 May 2013 |
| 827 | Soarer: | Indeed, I should be taking mine apart to see what's what soon. I'm currently mulling ... | 23 May 2013 |
| 828 | Retrete: | Soarer, If I press some keys together(general more than 3) some unpressed keys activa ... | 28 May 2013 |
| 829 | Soarer: | Did you forget to add this line to the config file? ;) Or did I break it? :-[ I did ... | 28 May 2013 |
| 830 | Retrete: | If I put the "blocking" ; Do the "blocking"need to be together something? Or it just ... | 28 May 2013 |
| 831 | Soarer: | Oops, sorry, it needs a 1 after it... blocking 1 :-[ | 28 May 2013 |
| 832 | Retrete: | Now compiles w/o problems, but still the same "issue" | 28 May 2013 |
| 833 | tufty: | Soarer - I've not been watching this closely, but if I gather correctly, this is "har ... | 28 May 2013 |
| 834 | Soarer: | Found the problem, it was in scas... | 28 May 2013 |
| 835 | Soarer: | That's right, this will be 'SoarTroller' or whatever ;D Number of keys depends on th ... | 28 May 2013 |
| 836 | Fawksie: | Another satisfied customer, thanks Soarer :) This is a 1986 Model M 122-Key Typewrite ... | 28 May 2013 |
| 837 | Retrete: | Now it detect even less keys :( , muuuuuch slower when I press more than 2, but I th ... | 29 May 2013 |
| 838 | Soarer: | This will annoy you... you didn't need to reset the Teensy :( It only needs to be res ... | 29 May 2013 |
| 839 | Soarer: | Very nice build! The wiring looks pretty neat to me :D | 29 May 2013 |
| 840 | Retrete: | Blocking 1 doesn't activate non pressed keys,but If I try pressing near keys of the a ... | 29 May 2013 |
| 841 | Soarer: | Unfortunately, those are the options when the matrix doesn't use diodes to prevent th ... | 29 May 2013 |
| 842 | Retrete: | No no, It doesn't matter, it works fine now. I don't press more than 2 or 3 keys at t ... | 29 May 2013 |
| 843 | Soarer: | OK, cool! Any combination of two keys should work, but there will be cases where a th ... | 29 May 2013 |
| 844 | tufty: | Well, LEDs I can live without. There's no LEDs on the board right now, after all :) ... | 29 May 2013 |
| 845 | Soarer: | Some plates are pretty flimsy, and/or don't hold the switches firmly, so you'd need t ... | 29 May 2013 |
| 846 | Retrete: | I have accidentaly broke one of the pin sockets of the teensy, this one; Is it possib ... | 03 Jun 2013 |
| 847 | Soarer: | :( Yep, just rewire it to another pin. But not PD6, since it has the onboard LED atta ... | 03 Jun 2013 |
| 848 | Retrete: | PD5,PD4 or PD3 also doesn't work, but PD7 (already asigned to a column) works, could ... | 03 Jun 2013 |
| 849 | Soarer: | Did you edit your .sc to change the relevant strobe line, and load it back on? I used ... | 03 Jun 2013 |
| 850 | Retrete: | Im testing it with original kevex.sc (nothing mapped) and the HID listen, and it repo ... | 03 Jun 2013 |
| 851 | Soarer: | You'll need to change the line that starts 'strobe PC7' to start 'strobe PF7', or whi ... | 03 Jun 2013 |
| 852 | Retrete: | Oh, I feel 100% retard :D Thanks!Working again | 03 Jun 2013 |
| 853 | Soarer: | Good! (Not the retard part, the working again part)! | 03 Jun 2013 |
| 854 | Retrete: | Soarer, do you know If the Model M 122 key which uses an (rj45?) connector could be ... | 04 Jun 2013 |
| 855 | Soarer: | Thanks :D But actually I already have one! It works fine through my converter - the s ... | 04 Jun 2013 |
| 856 | Retrete: | I will "waste" the teensy with a 1986 Ibm model F 122key. The strange thing is that I ... | 12 Jun 2013 |
| 857 | Soarer: | Hmm... looks like an M to me, since it has a white underside. The last couple of digi ... | 12 Jun 2013 |
| 858 | connection: | Hello, Thanks for this great piece of software! I have 15 old terminal Model M:s, and ... | 13 Jun 2013 |
| 859 | Soarer: | Oh yeah... I'm seeing that on Linux Mint 14 MATE 32-bit as well. Maybe it is another ... | 13 Jun 2013 |
| 860 | Retrete: | Today I opened it and this is what I've found, no model F? :eek: http://imgur.com/a/ ... | 13 Jun 2013 |
| 861 | Soarer: | Definitely an M - you can see the membrane! IBM made two versions of the early 122-ke ... | 13 Jun 2013 |
| 862 | Soarer: | Ah-ha! Someone has made exactly the same mistake again :'( The boot mode handling is ... | 13 Jun 2013 |
| 863 | connection: | Yes, that actually seems to be a bug in the kernel. If a keyboard has a Clear key, it ... | 13 Jun 2013 |
| 864 | Soarer: | My converter's NKRO report just has a bit for each HID code, in numeric order. So as ... | 13 Jun 2013 |
| 865 | Soarer: | v1.12 added to the first post, which should make Delete work correctly again on v3.x ... | 14 Jun 2013 |
| 866 | connection: | I've upgraded to v1.12 now, and now the delete repeating works as supposed to, and I ... | 14 Jun 2013 |
| 867 | fohat.digs: | I think I am running v1.1 from several months ago, are there important changes recently? | 14 Jun 2013 |
| 868 | Soarer: | Great! I'd have to remove Out from the report as well :( It's a pain because each one ... | 14 Jun 2013 |
| 869 | Soarer: | Since you're not running Linux, not using an RT keyboard, and don't have any problems ... | 14 Jun 2013 |
| 870 | poxeclipse: | Question: Is it possible to transplant the electronics part of a Model F which has a ... | 16 Jun 2013 |
| 871 | Soarer: | I really don't know! The XT controller is built onto the main PCB, so you'd have to s ... | 16 Jun 2013 |
| 872 | fohat.digs: | I'm back. I have been worrying with this problem off and on for at least 6 months. I ... | 05 Jul 2013 |
| 873 | Soarer: | XT-to-AT? They're the same! Normally I'd say clock and data swapped for R05, but then ... | 05 Jul 2013 |
| 874 | fohat.digs: | Soarer, as always, you da man. Even when you don't solve my problems directly, you se ... | 05 Jul 2013 |
| 875 | Soarer: | Ah, good! That's just bad luck with that connector... would've been tough for me to f ... | 05 Jul 2013 |
| 876 | finaltheorem: | Hi Soarer, and everyone. Just wanted to say thank you for putting this out for every ... | 14 Jul 2013 |
| 877 | Soarer: | Excellent... heatshrink is a nice touch! :D One thing: the blue wire you've got going ... | 15 Jul 2013 |
| 878 | finaltheorem: | Ahh, thanks for information! I was confused about that one since the wire was about ... | 15 Jul 2013 |
| 879 | Retrete: | Hi! A few questions before I teensy the 122 M; Is the red circle a ground connection? ... | 15 Jul 2013 |
| 880 | Soarer: | Yup, that's a ground connection. There's clearly a PCB trace between that and the gro ... | 15 Jul 2013 |
| 881 | Retrete: | Before trying to install it, where should I connect each? Thanks again soarer  | 15 Jul 2013 |
| 882 | Soarer: | From fohat's crib sheet... So like this... | 15 Jul 2013 |
| 883 | fohat.digs: | What! I thought that I had gotten that from you! | 15 Jul 2013 |
| 884 | Soarer: | The pic of the label could well be mine, but not the other - easier to understand - d ... | 15 Jul 2013 |
| 885 | Glod: | another satisfied customer!, this is extremely easy to assemble, especially consideri ... | 16 Jul 2013 |
| 886 | finaltheorem: | Im afraid I may have done something a bit stupid while trying to restore a badly cor ... | 18 Jul 2013 |
| 887 | fohat.digs: | I am sorry, I guess that I did not answer your previous question quickly enough. The ... | 18 Jul 2013 |
| 888 | Retrete: | 122 M works nice! I'll post some pics in a few days, right now I'm using a standar mi ... | 18 Jul 2013 |
| 889 | finaltheorem: | Thanks fohat, and no need to apologize, of course. I always tend to venture off and ... | 18 Jul 2013 |
| 890 | fohat.digs: | The small ones are much easier to get back together than the big boys, but those clam ... | 19 Jul 2013 |
| 891 | fohat.digs: | I need a female connector for a terminal keyboard. I have built the outboard Teensy c ... | 22 Jul 2013 |
| 892 | Soarer: | Does it have 8 wires? Unfortunately, not the ones we want! So, if it only has those f ... | 22 Jul 2013 |
| 893 | fohat.digs: | OK, that is borne out by my experiment. Even though it looks like I have 8 copper tra ... | 22 Jul 2013 |
| 894 | Soarer: | Any CAT5e extension cable will have all 8 pins wired, so that's the safest bet if buy ... | 22 Jul 2013 |
| 895 | fohat.digs: | I will look for a CAT5 extension cable. How could the RJ45-to-USB adapter wire all 8? ... | 22 Jul 2013 |
| 896 | Soarer: | Oh... are they just wiring adapters to use ethernet cable as USB? Or are they active ... | 22 Jul 2013 |
| 897 | fohat.digs: | Gee, thanks, guys, for putting a big gob of white something (incredibly tough) all ov ... | 22 Jul 2013 |