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Touchpad mistery solved, rerouted board.

A project log for Samsung NP540U4E to BLE keyboard conversion

I always wanted to have a wireless keyboard with touchpad. Preferably with Bluetooth. So I have started to build one.

miklos-martonMiklos Marton 09/21/2017 at 15:430 Comments

After googling about the ELAN microelectronics corp, I came across the following patchset submitted to the Linux kernel:

https://lwn.net/Articles/496137/
It turned out that the touchpad I2C interface is used as a I2C - HID interface. It is in the vanilia mainline now, so it seems to be a good starting point. Basically I will need to create an I2C - HID - BLE - HID converter.

I have also rerouted the board to align the MIFA antenna to the proper direction:

Also made some paper printouts to verify the physical dimensions:

The BLE module footprint had some problems, but fixed now. The rest of the connector verification waits to my PID controlled flat iron because removing the FPC connectors will require preheating what I do not really have ATM.

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