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022 Apr 2012Soarer: This is my Teensy-based project which adapts XT, AT and some 122 key terminal keyboar ...
123 Apr 2012Maarten: Oh nice work! Now all i need is a teensy
223 Apr 2012Kurrk: This is a good opportunity to say thank you! I'm using a XT model F with your convert ...
323 Apr 2012bhtooefr: Congrats on getting 1.0 out, and thank you. This adapter is powering my favorite keyb ...
423 Apr 2012Soarer: Thanks people, you're welcome! I hope there aren't too many bugs discovered, so I can ...
523 Apr 2012litster: Excellent converter! It is not just for IBM keyboards. It can make all your Filco key ...
623 Apr 2012RC-1140: Yup, have to agree, this converter firmware is by far the best. I'm using a teensy at ...
723 Apr 2012Soarer: I probably will - I'm a forum whore, I'll open my mouth wherever there are good posti ...
823 Apr 2012fruktstund: This is a fantastic converter. Used it for an old BTC (I think it was BTC at least) k ...
923 Apr 2012Soarer: It could just be a wiring error when you rebuilt it... is it rebuilt with the same co ...
1023 Apr 2012fruktstund: Yeah, it seems the most likely that it's a wiring error, even though that would mean ...
1123 Apr 2012Soarer: It's pretty unusual to actually kill anything (but it has been known). Although, it's ...
1224 Apr 2012Grond: Is there any way to build such a converter without soldering?
1324 Apr 2012bhtooefr: Yes, although it'll take having a Teensy with pins, and then having the right jumper ...
1424 Apr 2012Grond: I'd like to make this converter for Model M terminal. Suppose I get a female RJ conne ...
1524 Apr 2012bhtooefr: You'd probably need to solder the RJ connector. However, 122-key terminal Ms (if it's ...
1624 Apr 2012Grond: Yes it does! So what? Can I get a wire that goes from the six pin connector to the Te ...
1724 Apr 2012bhtooefr: You would need female jumper wires to go from the pins on the controller to the pins ...
1824 Apr 2012Grond: Like these?
1924 Apr 2012bhtooefr: That would work, yes.
2024 Apr 2012Grond: Thanks!
2126 Apr 2012fruktstund: I've checked the wiring now and I'm confident it's correctly done! I also tried it ou ...
2227 Apr 2012Soarer: Hmm, I get about 0.6MΩ measured on the Teensy, with no keyboard or USB attached. I'm ...
2328 Apr 2012fruktstund: I seem to get approximately the same measurements as you Soarer, so this is beginning ...
2428 Apr 2012Soarer: Well, it doesn't mean the Teensy isn't damaged, but it seems to be basically OK. What ...
2505 May 2012Soarer: fruktstund - did you spot anything?
2608 May 2012nfc: Finally had the opportunity to test it... a masterpiece. Info research, write phase, ...
2709 May 2012dirge: What are the chances of the wyse boards working? Before I start messing on with mine.
2809 May 2012Soarer: Thanks! I'm happy enough if it's 'useful' Pretty slim, I'm afraid. I don't know muc ...
2909 May 2012dirge: You're much better at this type of thing so would you offer some advice on how I coul ...
3009 May 2012off: As the uninitiated, soarer's converter sounds like a protocol converter, so you'd hav ...
3109 May 2012Soarer: I'm going to assume for now that its signalling is something like the two shown on kb ...
3209 May 2012dirge: Thanks mate, that helps a lot. Working on the key matrix, following sixty's instructi ...
3314 May 2012fruktstund: hid_listen only prints out a lot of "R05", with an occasional "R04" every now and the ...
3414 May 2012Soarer: Sorry, I meant when it's first connected... have hid_listen running before you plug i ...
3514 May 2012hoggy: Just built one of these. Soarer, you are a genius. I'll take some pics when I've got ...
3615 May 2012hoggy: It's a lousy photo...
3715 May 2012fruktstund: Ah, I see. I'll check as soon as I can!
3815 May 2012Soarer: Nice project box!
3915 May 2012off: Indeed! Not the smallest, but looks to be the most functionally complete
4016 May 2012hoggy: What I wanted to make was a small lego box, with 3 leds and one of these stickers (to ...
4116 May 2012hoggy: The converter works better with my siig minitouch than a blue cube.
4217 May 2012Soarer: That's a fine idea to use one of those stickers! I don't think I ever looked into why ...
4331 May 2012Soarer: New version uploaded which fixes a bug that stopped jump to bootloader functions work ...
4410 Jun 2012Soarer: Another new version posted, v1.02 - the converter wasn't handling the commands tellin ...
4506 Jul 2012Findecanor: Does the current code base have support for driving LEDs for Caps Lock, Scroll Lock a ...
4606 Jul 2012Soarer: It does
4707 Jul 2012JBert: I have made CapsLock an FN1 key, but now I was wondering if I could make some key on ...
4807 Jul 2012Soarer: Not without remapping one of the shifts in the Fn layer to something which would just ...
4907 Jul 2012JBert: Ah, that's a handy chart. I've been experimentally building some other macros to coun ...
5007 Jul 2012Soarer: I use the double-shift myself, in the base layer, and find it feels quite logical. Bu ...
5116 Jul 2012Paranoid: Has anyone ever tested if you can hook up an old laptop keyboard to your computer wit ...
5216 Jul 2012Findecanor: If a keyboard has a ribbon cable, then you can bet that the controller is not part of ...
5316 Jul 2012JBert: I happen to have another (weird) question: will there ever be support for a few extra ...
5421 Jul 2012JBert: No answer? I actually noticed another thing: it seems that the DELETE remap code crea ...
5521 Jul 2012Soarer: Sorry! I saw your post before, but then forgot about it I don't think I'll add anyth ...
5621 Jul 2012Soarer: Ahem Ignore that Autohotkey was blocking my deletes
5722 Jul 2012JBert: Woah, today it somehow works?!? I also noticed that the output above is not for TAB b ...
5822 Jul 2012Soarer: Don't worry, I didn't spend too long on it. I added some debug printing to the macro ...
5922 Jul 2012Paranoid: Hey Soarer! I recently acquired a liberty keyboard and it has this connecter: The wei ...
6022 Jul 2012Soarer: WTF is that thing!!! At a guess, there is... CGND - case/shielding ground S.P. - dunn ...
6124 Jul 2012Paranoid: Hehe okidoki thanks for figuring it out! I wonder if there is any way that could ma ...
6224 Jul 2012Soarer: If you have a serial port, you could try wiring it to that (and a power supply for th ...
6301 Aug 2012Trent: Question: I have an IBM board with the RJ-45 converter. To hook this up to the conver ...
6401 Aug 2012AltRN8: Hoping folks can help. What is the expected behavior of using a SC with a Model F and ...
6501 Aug 2012Soarer: Nope... just something like this: Unfortunately they don't fit in a breadboard though ...
6601 Aug 2012Soarer: Yup, without legacy.sc compiled and loaded, * is just *. The two commands you need ar ...
6702 Aug 2012spolia_optima: Is anyone here willing to build one of these for profit? Or is building one myself no ...
6802 Aug 2012Trent: Soarer thanks for the advice. I took a look at the link you suggested and bought the ...
6902 Aug 2012JBert: Here's a step by step guide: You should now have a working converter. See Soarer's po ...
7002 Aug 2012AltRN8: Thanks Soarer! I actually figured it out right after I posted. I feel a little dense ...
7102 Aug 2012Soarer: Sure does! It handles all of the codes produced by the 'extra' positions available on ...
7203 Aug 2012Trent: Awesome thanks very much. I ordered all of the parts for my converter! The only parts ...
7303 Aug 2012JBert: I think you misunderstood that forum post. This also means that you will only supply ...
7403 Aug 2012Trent: Ah I was wondering whether or not the keyboard would still be able to be powered with ...
7503 Aug 2012Soarer: Actually, I think the forum post is mistaken; a Teensy running at 5V should work fine ...
7603 Aug 2012Trent: Yeah it was that post. Ah a serial connection that makes sense. And does this convert ...
7704 Aug 2012Soarer: Hey, that's a trick question! No fair! It's both, and neither! Typically the PS/2 por ...
7806 Aug 2012Trent: Ah clever. Well cool I look forward to making the converter! I am still waiting on pa ...
7906 Aug 2012RC-1140: hm, reading this stuff makes me overthink the project I had planned (maybe you rememb ...
8007 Aug 2012Soarer: I think I said before that it sounded 'challenging'. Now it's sounding challenging ...
8109 Aug 2012Trent: Ok so what am I doing wrong: * Programmed the teensy with 1.02 * using a terminal sty ...
8209 Aug 2012Icarium: I've tried a RJ-45 jack once for a 122key Model M and there was something else in the ...
8309 Aug 2012JBert: That's a known bug: Simply unplug the Teensy from USB and it should work again.
8409 Aug 2012Trent: Icarium I will try what you suggested. Jbert I noticed that does indeed help. I can't ...
8509 Aug 2012Soarer: I haven't had that problem with scinfo, only with scrd. After running scboot you woul ...
8609 Aug 2012Trent: So the order would be: 1. Flash teensy 2. scas example.sc example.scb 2. scwr example ...
8709 Aug 2012Soarer: Ouch, that's as I feared... backwards The silver line is the shielding, which is PE. ...
8809 Aug 2012Trent: Edit: after re-do of backward ass colors, I load up the teensy, reflash with Soarer_a ...
8909 Aug 2012Soarer: Strange choice of colours, for sure. Hardly matters though. That they used pinouts th ...
9010 Aug 2012Trent: Do you know what the colors would be for the silver tag XT/AT style adapters? I have ...
9110 Aug 2012Soarer: I think they vary... at least, the PC/XT colours are different to the 122-key's. Let ...
9210 Aug 2012JBert: Noooooo! 1. Press button on Teensy 2. Flash Teensy 3. scas ... 4. scwr 5. Unplug / pl ...
9311 Aug 2012Trent: Hmm, seems that this board is indeed dead after following your instructions jBert. I' ...
9431 Aug 2012AKIMbO: I need some serious help with programming this teensy. If someone could give me the e ...
9531 Aug 2012Soarer: Nothing but a couple of misunderstandings here First, you don't want to be in progra ...
9631 Aug 2012AKIMbO: It worked! Thank you so much Soarer! Is there an easy way to completely go back to de ...
9731 Aug 2012Soarer: Sure, just compile an empty text file! Or, in a Windows command prompt, you can simpl ...
9807 Sep 2012Soarer: I see some people have noticed the v1.03 release... it's far from an essential update ...
9923 Sep 2012fruktstund: Soarer, I'm back with a new exciting question: is it possible to use other pins on th ...
10023 Sep 2012Soarer: Hmm, well I don't really want to start producing and testing a modified version, but ...
10123 Sep 2012fruktstund: Tried your shorting test, and both output the error codes as expected (except that on ...
10223 Sep 2012dirge: Got mine working but trying to make a USB cable out the original cable. Looking towar ...
10323 Sep 2012Soarer: So they are both XTs, but they have LEDs? Sorry, for some reason I thought you were t ...
10423 Sep 2012Soarer: On your head be it! Have a camera handy for when the magic smoke gets out
10523 Sep 2012dirge: well typing on it now so no great damage But would love to know the correct usb pinn ...
10623 Sep 2012Soarer: My files are symbol agnostic, as are scan codes and HID codes Any discrepancy betwe ...
10725 Sep 2012Grond: Anyone tested this with Teensy 3.0?
10825 Sep 2012JBert: It's a totally different processor and thus the .hex file will not work.
10925 Sep 2012dirge: Well that would explain it, who's idea was it to have the end inverted on the mini so ...
11025 Sep 2012dirge: right I`ve used the included tools and compiled the dvorak bin. I like the fact £ is ...
11125 Sep 2012Soarer: Damn UK vs US layout problem! 'Backslash' is a # on a UK layout... think of the diffe ...
11225 Sep 2012dirge: Changing to US would be bad, I`m logged into UK servers most the time. "`¬" is an op ...
11325 Sep 2012Soarer: That's because GRAVE and HASH aren't keys All the key names are US-centric, so we j ...
11425 Sep 2012dirge: Your awesome! I'm going to post some pics now!
11502 Oct 2012Mikester: hi guys, i just modified my IBM 3487 terminal keyboard with a teensy-board with soare ...
11603 Oct 2012Soarer: Very nice! That USB extension fits tidily between the existing posts, I see! Strictly ...
11703 Oct 2012Soarer: Anyone that thinks they might've applied power in reverse - see here for a test and f ...
11804 Oct 2012sealclubber: Hey Soarer. Just wanted to thank you for your awesome work. I finally got my baby to ...
11904 Oct 2012Soarer: Ha! You don't! There's an initial translation from each scan code set into HID codes, ...
12004 Oct 2012sealclubber: I am honestly surprised that this is so easy! Thank you for all of your help
12104 Oct 2012Soarer: Cool! I made a little mistake in the last three macros - well, not really a mistake, ...
12205 Oct 2012Soarer: Heh, another minor mistake... the code prefixed by 'd' is remapping. The one you wa ...
12305 Oct 2012sealclubber: Gotcha. Just popped in again to tell you everything is working all nice and smooth. T ...
12405 Oct 2012Soarer: Aha, well, that's even better! ... I finally finished my set of adapters... ... by fi ...
12526 Oct 2012wcass: feature request: i know that all of the guys that like trackpoints would like to see ...
12626 Oct 2012Soarer: Hmm. I might add mousekeys functions at some point (similar to hasu's code), but I'm ...
12726 Oct 2012wcass: a trackpoint mod would have bare leads rather than a proper PS2 plug. yes, i could cr ...
12826 Oct 2012Soarer: Are you sure? I'd only spotted the Mouse Keys ("You can emulates mouse move and butto ...
12926 Oct 2012wcass: - Features section, 5th bullet item. if you have a copy of his code, look for ps2_mo ...
13027 Oct 2012Soarer: Ah, so it does
13127 Oct 2012hasu: I'm a fan of trackpoint, sure But it is very difficult to integrate it into my favo ...
13227 Oct 2012Icarium: Actually there is another good reason for putting PS/2 through the Teensy but I haven ...
13327 Oct 2012Soarer: I might pencil it in for v2.0 It sounds like quite a lot of work to do it nicely - d ...
13429 Oct 2012suka: I have used exactly such a setup in my custom board for the last couple of months, an ...
13529 Oct 2012Soarer: Heh, I'm not saying it would be , just that it would take And I don't even have a ...
13629 Oct 2012fossala: I've got a teensy coming for a 122 key terminal M. What would be the best way to conn ...
13729 Oct 2012wcass: I installed a teensy inside the case of my keyboard. i'll post pictures of how i did ...
13830 Oct 2012wcass: This is what i did and it has worked very well for me. You will need a 6' USB A-to-mi ...
13930 Oct 2012fossala: Looks good, lots of good info. I'll take mine apart and look at it later. I can see f ...
14030 Oct 2012Soarer: That's excellent, wcass! I'll just add my usual caveat about not trusting the wire co ...
14108 Nov 2012fossala: OK, the teensy turned up yesterday. I've stripped the wires ready for doing the solde ...
14208 Nov 2012JBert: It should work fine without a config loaded. Only when you got some ancient keyboard ...
14308 Nov 2012Soarer: Indeed; config files are just tweaks to the default mappings (one for each scan code ...
14410 Nov 2012Vierax: Hello, just a noob in C (in Python too but work in progress for both…) so I might m ...
14510 Nov 2012fossala: All up and running, typing this with it now. Thanks for your hard work. Sure there wi ...
14610 Nov 2012Soarer: It still sends keycodes, so yes, the sensible layouts to do in hardware are those whi ...
14711 Nov 2012Vierax: Oh yeah macros, that's clever ! You just need a referential layout who can handle the ...
14811 Nov 2012Soarer: Hmm, true, and being OS specific would make it a bit pointless really, unless you wer ...
14912 Nov 2012Vierax: Yes the simplest way seems to have hard dvorak and colemak and combining the hard qwe ...
15021 Nov 2012JBert: Except it doesn't work with UAC or the login screen... It's fun to type in Colemak in ...
15124 Nov 2012Hubbert: I have the exact same question: did you come up with a fix, JBert? Otherwise, I guess ...
15224 Nov 2012JBert: No, I just left the project for what it was after Soarer said he didn't want to add s ...
15324 Nov 2012Hubbert: OK...sounds like maybe that's the way to go. I made a new thread about how to interfa ...
15427 Nov 2012fossala: How can I get the lefthand keys working on a 122 model m with this firmware?
15527 Nov 2012Icarium: Which one? With Soarer's it should work out of the box. Wait, what do you mean by lef ...
15627 Nov 20127bit: The function keys to the left of the keyboard.
15727 Nov 2012fossala: IBM model m terminal. By left hand keys I mean the 10 key caps to the far left.
15827 Nov 2012Icarium: Ah, well those you actually have to add to the config afair. I can send you mine as a ...
15927 Nov 2012fossala: I will have to read up how to make configs, thanks.
16027 Nov 2012Icarium: Soarer's docs are insanely good. I would like to reward him with a virtual cookie or ...
16128 Nov 2012bhtooefr: I need to find how I mapped mine, but it involved mapping volume, the PrtSc/ScrLk/Pau ...
16207 Dec 2012Soarer: PLEASE VOTE for my converter in the Deskthority Awards 2012: Best input device mod 20 ...
16310 Dec 2012sealclubber: Hello again Soarer! Just nabbed myself a Model F off ebay (for cheap... great conditi ...
16410 Dec 2012Soarer: I can't remember it 100%. Which Model F? I think in most cases the controller grounds ...
16510 Dec 2012bhtooefr: You might get the ground path of: Base pan -> keyboard frame -> controller -> Teensy ...
16611 Dec 2012sealclubber: Nevermind its all good. Typing on it at the moment actually. Some of the keys needed ...
16713 Dec 2012Soarer: Is there still desire for the extra few keys? I've got v1.1 almost ready, and could p ...
16813 Dec 2012JBert: I think I'm personally not going to use it anymore now that there are alternative Pok ...
16918 Dec 2012Hubbert: That would still be great for me! And I like the no-matrix idea, both for simplicity ...
17018 Dec 2012Soarer: For now I've coded it to read 5 inputs at 1kHz with a simple 10ms batch debounce. Tha ...