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| 0 | 22 Apr 2012 | Soarer: | This is my Teensy-based project which adapts XT, AT and some 122 key terminal keyboar ... |
| 1 | 23 Apr 2012 | Maarten: | Oh nice work! Now all i need is a teensy |
| 2 | 23 Apr 2012 | Kurrk: | This is a good opportunity to say thank you! I'm using a XT model F with your convert ... |
| 3 | 23 Apr 2012 | bhtooefr: | Congrats on getting 1.0 out, and thank you. This adapter is powering my favorite keyb ... |
| 4 | 23 Apr 2012 | Soarer: | Thanks people, you're welcome! I hope there aren't too many bugs discovered, so I can ... |
| 5 | 23 Apr 2012 | litster: | Excellent converter! It is not just for IBM keyboards. It can make all your Filco key ... |
| 6 | 23 Apr 2012 | RC-1140: | Yup, have to agree, this converter firmware is by far the best. I'm using a teensy at ... |
| 7 | 23 Apr 2012 | Soarer: | I probably will - I'm a forum whore, I'll open my mouth wherever there are good posti ... |
| 8 | 23 Apr 2012 | fruktstund: | This is a fantastic converter. Used it for an old BTC (I think it was BTC at least) k ... |
| 9 | 23 Apr 2012 | Soarer: | It could just be a wiring error when you rebuilt it... is it rebuilt with the same co ... |
| 10 | 23 Apr 2012 | fruktstund: | Yeah, it seems the most likely that it's a wiring error, even though that would mean ... |
| 11 | 23 Apr 2012 | Soarer: | It's pretty unusual to actually kill anything (but it has been known). Although, it's ... |
| 12 | 24 Apr 2012 | Grond: | Is there any way to build such a converter without soldering? |
| 13 | 24 Apr 2012 | bhtooefr: | Yes, although it'll take having a Teensy with pins, and then having the right jumper ... |
| 14 | 24 Apr 2012 | Grond: | I'd like to make this converter for Model M terminal. Suppose I get a female RJ conne ... |
| 15 | 24 Apr 2012 | bhtooefr: | You'd probably need to solder the RJ connector. However, 122-key terminal Ms (if it's ... |
| 16 | 24 Apr 2012 | Grond: | Yes it does! So what? Can I get a wire that goes from the six pin connector to the Te ... |
| 17 | 24 Apr 2012 | bhtooefr: | You would need female jumper wires to go from the pins on the controller to the pins ... |
| 18 | 24 Apr 2012 | Grond: | Like these? |
| 19 | 24 Apr 2012 | bhtooefr: | That would work, yes. |
| 20 | 24 Apr 2012 | Grond: | Thanks! |
| 21 | 26 Apr 2012 | fruktstund: | I've checked the wiring now and I'm confident it's correctly done! I also tried it ou ... |
| 22 | 27 Apr 2012 | Soarer: | Hmm, I get about 0.6MΩ measured on the Teensy, with no keyboard or USB attached. I'm ... |
| 23 | 28 Apr 2012 | fruktstund: | I seem to get approximately the same measurements as you Soarer, so this is beginning ... |
| 24 | 28 Apr 2012 | Soarer: | Well, it doesn't mean the Teensy isn't damaged, but it seems to be basically OK. What ... |
| 25 | 05 May 2012 | Soarer: | fruktstund - did you spot anything? |
| 26 | 08 May 2012 | nfc: | Finally had the opportunity to test it... a masterpiece. Info research, write phase, ... |
| 27 | 09 May 2012 | dirge: | What are the chances of the wyse boards working? Before I start messing on with mine. |
| 28 | 09 May 2012 | Soarer: | Thanks! I'm happy enough if it's 'useful' Pretty slim, I'm afraid. I don't know muc ... |
| 29 | 09 May 2012 | dirge: | You're much better at this type of thing so would you offer some advice on how I coul ... |
| 30 | 09 May 2012 | off: | As the uninitiated, soarer's converter sounds like a protocol converter, so you'd hav ... |
| 31 | 09 May 2012 | Soarer: | I'm going to assume for now that its signalling is something like the two shown on kb ... |
| 32 | 09 May 2012 | dirge: | Thanks mate, that helps a lot. Working on the key matrix, following sixty's instructi ... |
| 33 | 14 May 2012 | fruktstund: | hid_listen only prints out a lot of "R05", with an occasional "R04" every now and the ... |
| 34 | 14 May 2012 | Soarer: | Sorry, I meant when it's first connected... have hid_listen running before you plug i ... |
| 35 | 14 May 2012 | hoggy: | Just built one of these. Soarer, you are a genius. I'll take some pics when I've got ... |
| 36 | 15 May 2012 | hoggy: | It's a lousy photo... |
| 37 | 15 May 2012 | fruktstund: | Ah, I see. I'll check as soon as I can! |
| 38 | 15 May 2012 | Soarer: | Nice project box! |
| 39 | 15 May 2012 | off: | Indeed! Not the smallest, but looks to be the most functionally complete |
| 40 | 16 May 2012 | hoggy: | What I wanted to make was a small lego box, with 3 leds and one of these stickers (to ... |
| 41 | 16 May 2012 | hoggy: | The converter works better with my siig minitouch than a blue cube. |
| 42 | 17 May 2012 | Soarer: | That's a fine idea to use one of those stickers! I don't think I ever looked into why ... |
| 43 | 31 May 2012 | Soarer: | New version uploaded which fixes a bug that stopped jump to bootloader functions work ... |
| 44 | 10 Jun 2012 | Soarer: | Another new version posted, v1.02 - the converter wasn't handling the commands tellin ... |
| 45 | 06 Jul 2012 | Findecanor: | Does the current code base have support for driving LEDs for Caps Lock, Scroll Lock a ... |
| 46 | 06 Jul 2012 | Soarer: | It does |
| 47 | 07 Jul 2012 | JBert: | I have made CapsLock an FN1 key, but now I was wondering if I could make some key on ... |
| 48 | 07 Jul 2012 | Soarer: | Not without remapping one of the shifts in the Fn layer to something which would just ... |
| 49 | 07 Jul 2012 | JBert: | Ah, that's a handy chart. I've been experimentally building some other macros to coun ... |
| 50 | 07 Jul 2012 | Soarer: | I use the double-shift myself, in the base layer, and find it feels quite logical. Bu ... |
| 51 | 16 Jul 2012 | Paranoid: | Has anyone ever tested if you can hook up an old laptop keyboard to your computer wit ... |
| 52 | 16 Jul 2012 | Findecanor: | If a keyboard has a ribbon cable, then you can bet that the controller is not part of ... |
| 53 | 16 Jul 2012 | JBert: | I happen to have another (weird) question: will there ever be support for a few extra ... |
| 54 | 21 Jul 2012 | JBert: | No answer? I actually noticed another thing: it seems that the DELETE remap code crea ... |
| 55 | 21 Jul 2012 | Soarer: | Sorry! I saw your post before, but then forgot about it I don't think I'll add anyth ... |
| 56 | 21 Jul 2012 | Soarer: | Ahem Ignore that Autohotkey was blocking my deletes |
| 57 | 22 Jul 2012 | JBert: | Woah, today it somehow works?!? I also noticed that the output above is not for TAB b ... |
| 58 | 22 Jul 2012 | Soarer: | Don't worry, I didn't spend too long on it. I added some debug printing to the macro ... |
| 59 | 22 Jul 2012 | Paranoid: | Hey Soarer! I recently acquired a liberty keyboard and it has this connecter: The wei ... |
| 60 | 22 Jul 2012 | Soarer: | WTF is that thing!!! At a guess, there is... CGND - case/shielding ground S.P. - dunn ... |
| 61 | 24 Jul 2012 | Paranoid: | Hehe okidoki thanks for figuring it out! I wonder if there is any way that could ma ... |
| 62 | 24 Jul 2012 | Soarer: | If you have a serial port, you could try wiring it to that (and a power supply for th ... |
| 63 | 01 Aug 2012 | Trent: | Question: I have an IBM board with the RJ-45 converter. To hook this up to the conver ... |
| 64 | 01 Aug 2012 | AltRN8: | Hoping folks can help. What is the expected behavior of using a SC with a Model F and ... |
| 65 | 01 Aug 2012 | Soarer: | Nope... just something like this: Unfortunately they don't fit in a breadboard though ... |
| 66 | 01 Aug 2012 | Soarer: | Yup, without legacy.sc compiled and loaded, * is just *. The two commands you need ar ... |
| 67 | 02 Aug 2012 | spolia_optima: | Is anyone here willing to build one of these for profit? Or is building one myself no ... |
| 68 | 02 Aug 2012 | Trent: | Soarer thanks for the advice. I took a look at the link you suggested and bought the ... |
| 69 | 02 Aug 2012 | JBert: | Here's a step by step guide: You should now have a working converter. See Soarer's po ... |
| 70 | 02 Aug 2012 | AltRN8: | Thanks Soarer! I actually figured it out right after I posted. I feel a little dense ... |
| 71 | 02 Aug 2012 | Soarer: | Sure does! It handles all of the codes produced by the 'extra' positions available on ... |
| 72 | 03 Aug 2012 | Trent: | Awesome thanks very much. I ordered all of the parts for my converter! The only parts ... |
| 73 | 03 Aug 2012 | JBert: | I think you misunderstood that forum post. This also means that you will only supply ... |
| 74 | 03 Aug 2012 | Trent: | Ah I was wondering whether or not the keyboard would still be able to be powered with ... |
| 75 | 03 Aug 2012 | Soarer: | Actually, I think the forum post is mistaken; a Teensy running at 5V should work fine ... |
| 76 | 03 Aug 2012 | Trent: | Yeah it was that post. Ah a serial connection that makes sense. And does this convert ... |
| 77 | 04 Aug 2012 | Soarer: | Hey, that's a trick question! No fair! It's both, and neither! Typically the PS/2 por ... |
| 78 | 06 Aug 2012 | Trent: | Ah clever. Well cool I look forward to making the converter! I am still waiting on pa ... |
| 79 | 06 Aug 2012 | RC-1140: | hm, reading this stuff makes me overthink the project I had planned (maybe you rememb ... |
| 80 | 07 Aug 2012 | Soarer: | I think I said before that it sounded 'challenging'. Now it's sounding challenging ... |
| 81 | 09 Aug 2012 | Trent: | Ok so what am I doing wrong: * Programmed the teensy with 1.02 * using a terminal sty ... |
| 82 | 09 Aug 2012 | Icarium: | I've tried a RJ-45 jack once for a 122key Model M and there was something else in the ... |
| 83 | 09 Aug 2012 | JBert: | That's a known bug: Simply unplug the Teensy from USB and it should work again. |
| 84 | 09 Aug 2012 | Trent: | Icarium I will try what you suggested. Jbert I noticed that does indeed help. I can't ... |
| 85 | 09 Aug 2012 | Soarer: | I haven't had that problem with scinfo, only with scrd. After running scboot you woul ... |
| 86 | 09 Aug 2012 | Trent: | So the order would be: 1. Flash teensy 2. scas example.sc example.scb 2. scwr example ... |
| 87 | 09 Aug 2012 | Soarer: | Ouch, that's as I feared... backwards The silver line is the shielding, which is PE. ... |
| 88 | 09 Aug 2012 | Trent: | Edit: after re-do of backward ass colors, I load up the teensy, reflash with Soarer_a ... |
| 89 | 09 Aug 2012 | Soarer: | Strange choice of colours, for sure. Hardly matters though. That they used pinouts th ... |
| 90 | 10 Aug 2012 | Trent: | Do you know what the colors would be for the silver tag XT/AT style adapters? I have ... |
| 91 | 10 Aug 2012 | Soarer: | I think they vary... at least, the PC/XT colours are different to the 122-key's. Let ... |
| 92 | 10 Aug 2012 | JBert: | Noooooo! 1. Press button on Teensy 2. Flash Teensy 3. scas ... 4. scwr 5. Unplug / pl ... |
| 93 | 11 Aug 2012 | Trent: | Hmm, seems that this board is indeed dead after following your instructions jBert. I' ... |
| 94 | 31 Aug 2012 | AKIMbO: | I need some serious help with programming this teensy. If someone could give me the e ... |
| 95 | 31 Aug 2012 | Soarer: | Nothing but a couple of misunderstandings here First, you don't want to be in progra ... |
| 96 | 31 Aug 2012 | AKIMbO: | It worked! Thank you so much Soarer! Is there an easy way to completely go back to de ... |
| 97 | 31 Aug 2012 | Soarer: | Sure, just compile an empty text file! Or, in a Windows command prompt, you can simpl ... |
| 98 | 07 Sep 2012 | Soarer: | I see some people have noticed the v1.03 release... it's far from an essential update ... |
| 99 | 23 Sep 2012 | fruktstund: | Soarer, I'm back with a new exciting question: is it possible to use other pins on th ... |
| 100 | 23 Sep 2012 | Soarer: | Hmm, well I don't really want to start producing and testing a modified version, but ... |
| 101 | 23 Sep 2012 | fruktstund: | Tried your shorting test, and both output the error codes as expected (except that on ... |
| 102 | 23 Sep 2012 | dirge: | Got mine working but trying to make a USB cable out the original cable. Looking towar ... |
| 103 | 23 Sep 2012 | Soarer: | So they are both XTs, but they have LEDs? Sorry, for some reason I thought you were t ... |
| 104 | 23 Sep 2012 | Soarer: | On your head be it! Have a camera handy for when the magic smoke gets out |
| 105 | 23 Sep 2012 | dirge: | well typing on it now so no great damage But would love to know the correct usb pinn ... |
| 106 | 23 Sep 2012 | Soarer: | My files are symbol agnostic, as are scan codes and HID codes Any discrepancy betwe ... |
| 107 | 25 Sep 2012 | Grond: | Anyone tested this with Teensy 3.0? |
| 108 | 25 Sep 2012 | JBert: | It's a totally different processor and thus the .hex file will not work. |
| 109 | 25 Sep 2012 | dirge: | Well that would explain it, who's idea was it to have the end inverted on the mini so ... |
| 110 | 25 Sep 2012 | dirge: | right I`ve used the included tools and compiled the dvorak bin. I like the fact £ is ... |
| 111 | 25 Sep 2012 | Soarer: | Damn UK vs US layout problem! 'Backslash' is a # on a UK layout... think of the diffe ... |
| 112 | 25 Sep 2012 | dirge: | Changing to US would be bad, I`m logged into UK servers most the time. "`¬" is an op ... |
| 113 | 25 Sep 2012 | Soarer: | That's because GRAVE and HASH aren't keys All the key names are US-centric, so we j ... |
| 114 | 25 Sep 2012 | dirge: | Your awesome! I'm going to post some pics now! |
| 115 | 02 Oct 2012 | Mikester: | hi guys, i just modified my IBM 3487 terminal keyboard with a teensy-board with soare ... |
| 116 | 03 Oct 2012 | Soarer: | Very nice! That USB extension fits tidily between the existing posts, I see! Strictly ... |
| 117 | 03 Oct 2012 | Soarer: | Anyone that thinks they might've applied power in reverse - see here for a test and f ... |
| 118 | 04 Oct 2012 | sealclubber: | Hey Soarer. Just wanted to thank you for your awesome work. I finally got my baby to ... |
| 119 | 04 Oct 2012 | Soarer: | Ha! You don't! There's an initial translation from each scan code set into HID codes, ... |
| 120 | 04 Oct 2012 | sealclubber: | I am honestly surprised that this is so easy! Thank you for all of your help |
| 121 | 04 Oct 2012 | Soarer: | Cool! I made a little mistake in the last three macros - well, not really a mistake, ... |
| 122 | 05 Oct 2012 | Soarer: | Heh, another minor mistake... the code prefixed by 'd' is remapping. The one you wa ... |
| 123 | 05 Oct 2012 | sealclubber: | Gotcha. Just popped in again to tell you everything is working all nice and smooth. T ... |
| 124 | 05 Oct 2012 | Soarer: | Aha, well, that's even better! ... I finally finished my set of adapters... ... by fi ... |
| 125 | 26 Oct 2012 | wcass: | feature request: i know that all of the guys that like trackpoints would like to see ... |
| 126 | 26 Oct 2012 | Soarer: | Hmm. I might add mousekeys functions at some point (similar to hasu's code), but I'm ... |
| 127 | 26 Oct 2012 | wcass: | a trackpoint mod would have bare leads rather than a proper PS2 plug. yes, i could cr ... |
| 128 | 26 Oct 2012 | Soarer: | Are you sure? I'd only spotted the Mouse Keys ("You can emulates mouse move and butto ... |
| 129 | 26 Oct 2012 | wcass: | - Features section, 5th bullet item. if you have a copy of his code, look for ps2_mo ... |
| 130 | 27 Oct 2012 | Soarer: | Ah, so it does |
| 131 | 27 Oct 2012 | hasu: | I'm a fan of trackpoint, sure But it is very difficult to integrate it into my favo ... |
| 132 | 27 Oct 2012 | Icarium: | Actually there is another good reason for putting PS/2 through the Teensy but I haven ... |
| 133 | 27 Oct 2012 | Soarer: | I might pencil it in for v2.0 It sounds like quite a lot of work to do it nicely - d ... |
| 134 | 29 Oct 2012 | suka: | I have used exactly such a setup in my custom board for the last couple of months, an ... |
| 135 | 29 Oct 2012 | Soarer: | Heh, I'm not saying it would be , just that it would take And I don't even have a ... |
| 136 | 29 Oct 2012 | fossala: | I've got a teensy coming for a 122 key terminal M. What would be the best way to conn ... |
| 137 | 29 Oct 2012 | wcass: | I installed a teensy inside the case of my keyboard. i'll post pictures of how i did ... |
| 138 | 30 Oct 2012 | wcass: | This is what i did and it has worked very well for me. You will need a 6' USB A-to-mi ... |
| 139 | 30 Oct 2012 | fossala: | Looks good, lots of good info. I'll take mine apart and look at it later. I can see f ... |
| 140 | 30 Oct 2012 | Soarer: | That's excellent, wcass! I'll just add my usual caveat about not trusting the wire co ... |
| 141 | 08 Nov 2012 | fossala: | OK, the teensy turned up yesterday. I've stripped the wires ready for doing the solde ... |
| 142 | 08 Nov 2012 | JBert: | It should work fine without a config loaded. Only when you got some ancient keyboard ... |
| 143 | 08 Nov 2012 | Soarer: | Indeed; config files are just tweaks to the default mappings (one for each scan code ... |
| 144 | 10 Nov 2012 | Vierax: | Hello, just a noob in C (in Python too but work in progress for both…) so I might m ... |
| 145 | 10 Nov 2012 | fossala: | All up and running, typing this with it now. Thanks for your hard work. Sure there wi ... |
| 146 | 10 Nov 2012 | Soarer: | It still sends keycodes, so yes, the sensible layouts to do in hardware are those whi ... |
| 147 | 11 Nov 2012 | Vierax: | Oh yeah macros, that's clever ! You just need a referential layout who can handle the ... |
| 148 | 11 Nov 2012 | Soarer: | Hmm, true, and being OS specific would make it a bit pointless really, unless you wer ... |
| 149 | 12 Nov 2012 | Vierax: | Yes the simplest way seems to have hard dvorak and colemak and combining the hard qwe ... |
| 150 | 21 Nov 2012 | JBert: | Except it doesn't work with UAC or the login screen... It's fun to type in Colemak in ... |
| 151 | 24 Nov 2012 | Hubbert: | I have the exact same question: did you come up with a fix, JBert? Otherwise, I guess ... |
| 152 | 24 Nov 2012 | JBert: | No, I just left the project for what it was after Soarer said he didn't want to add s ... |
| 153 | 24 Nov 2012 | Hubbert: | OK...sounds like maybe that's the way to go. I made a new thread about how to interfa ... |
| 154 | 27 Nov 2012 | fossala: | How can I get the lefthand keys working on a 122 model m with this firmware? |
| 155 | 27 Nov 2012 | Icarium: | Which one? With Soarer's it should work out of the box. Wait, what do you mean by lef ... |
| 156 | 27 Nov 2012 | 7bit: | The function keys to the left of the keyboard. |
| 157 | 27 Nov 2012 | fossala: | IBM model m terminal. By left hand keys I mean the 10 key caps to the far left. |
| 158 | 27 Nov 2012 | Icarium: | Ah, well those you actually have to add to the config afair. I can send you mine as a ... |
| 159 | 27 Nov 2012 | fossala: | I will have to read up how to make configs, thanks. |
| 160 | 27 Nov 2012 | Icarium: | Soarer's docs are insanely good. I would like to reward him with a virtual cookie or ... |
| 161 | 28 Nov 2012 | bhtooefr: | I need to find how I mapped mine, but it involved mapping volume, the PrtSc/ScrLk/Pau ... |
| 162 | 07 Dec 2012 | Soarer: | PLEASE VOTE for my converter in the Deskthority Awards 2012: Best input device mod 20 ... |
| 163 | 10 Dec 2012 | sealclubber: | Hello again Soarer! Just nabbed myself a Model F off ebay (for cheap... great conditi ... |
| 164 | 10 Dec 2012 | Soarer: | I can't remember it 100%. Which Model F? I think in most cases the controller grounds ... |
| 165 | 10 Dec 2012 | bhtooefr: | You might get the ground path of: Base pan -> keyboard frame -> controller -> Teensy ... |
| 166 | 11 Dec 2012 | sealclubber: | Nevermind its all good. Typing on it at the moment actually. Some of the keys needed ... |
| 167 | 13 Dec 2012 | Soarer: | Is there still desire for the extra few keys? I've got v1.1 almost ready, and could p ... |
| 168 | 13 Dec 2012 | JBert: | I think I'm personally not going to use it anymore now that there are alternative Pok ... |
| 169 | 18 Dec 2012 | Hubbert: | That would still be great for me! And I like the no-matrix idea, both for simplicity ... |
| 170 | 18 Dec 2012 | Soarer: | For now I've coded it to read 5 inputs at 1kHz with a simple 10ms batch debounce. Tha ... |