Modeled some keyboard keys for rendering purposes later, no body yet. I don't know what I was thinking with the side holes, definitely a nightmare to clean. Probably will change that.
Fixed some issues with the keyboard, now Shift and Caps Lock work well, although I cannot turn the Caps led on due to the external controller board I use limitations. Maybe I have to build my own as i did with everything else although I find it not so...
I found a cheap USB keyboard controller chip! It is the Holtek HT82K629A. It requires a minimum of passives, plus a 6MHz crystal, and you're done -- just hook it up to USB and it looks like a standard keyboard.You don't get to say which key is which:...
Its destined to be used with v06c-mini. Meanwhile...Bullet points summary:The switches are SKPMAME010. The original matrix is kept for hypothetical compatibility with the original, but Pi Pico is added for comfortKeycaps with engravings are designed...
I've rebuilt keyboards before. Liking/wanting thin and split keyboards necessitates doing that, there are none ready to buy. Lately I've wondered about minimizing the number of keys as well. Suddenly I got the urge to try it out, and that lead to a new...
Wiring is done with the help of two PCF8574 I2C input expander. not sure if I'll write it with wiring or python or if i will use an external IC for scanning.https://hackaday.io/page/2325-keyboards-pleaseyou can read here how I got to the keyboard I designed....
I've been busy playing Kerbal Space Program for once and haven't been working too actively on the project. Tonight I decided to fire up PyCharm and did a bit of work. I found PyAutoGUI which does cross platform keyboard input.It seems like it'll work,...
I've had this old PET Commodore keyboard for nearly a decade, so I made it a matching keyboard. Full project page here: https://hackaday.io/project/9950-commodore-pet-usb-keyboard
Today I began experimenting with some of the different setups I could use to build this and found that the best way to build this would be to use an external keyboard.
Making a mini version of keyboard to meet my new laptop ziseFor the sake of efficiency . I'm reusing keyboard mainboard and mini buttonts .Looking forward to make my own body parts in the future .
Several enhancements were made to the onscreen keyboard to make typing easier. The project description was updated to include details about how the keyboard operates and a video was created for it as well. Also, the height of the selection boxes...
I've kind of been in a holding pattern waiting for the keyboard "kit" to arrive but no more as it was delivered last week. This is a classic retro-style ASCII keyboard, modeled after the ADM-3A keyboard, which can also be populated to fit perfectly...
I bought one of those nice cheap Bluetooth keyboards and was planning on using it with an HC-05 Bluetooth module. However, although the keyboard works fine with other things, the HC-05 does not work with keyboards, regardless of what the seller...
I developed a simple interface for a PS/2 keyboard and wrote a "cat" program to echo out input! The source code can be found here, and the video is below.