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Offline seung

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« on: Sun, 12 December 2010, 18:55:13 »
Hi everyone-

I have a WYSE keyboard with a RJ11 (?) connection and black Cherry switches. Is it possible swap the PCB from a regular non-mech USB keyboard into the WYSE keyboard?

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Offline seung

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« Reply #1 on: Sun, 12 December 2010, 20:43:58 »
Too bad, I really like this keyboard. It feels sturdy and has nice looking keycaps.
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Offline seung

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« Reply #2 on: Sun, 12 December 2010, 20:49:20 »
Another pic with the face on.
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Offline Pylon

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« Reply #3 on: Sun, 12 December 2010, 21:13:28 »
My local electronic store uses those.

 I've thought of this before, but I never tried it. But basically, you could cannibalize a USB controller from some rubber dome, sever all traces on the PCB, and then do a ton of soldering and rewiring and duplicate the rubber dome controller's matrix on the PCB, and then connect it to the controller and see if that works.
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« Reply #4 on: Sun, 12 December 2010, 23:08:21 »
This is a Terminal board, no adapter or cable swap will make it PC compatible.

Anyway, this is a great keyboard. And you are in luck (if you are willing to put effort). The hard part is already done, as Korean gods have already reversed the Matrix of that one. Its semi-easy to convert with some re-routing. I have one incoming and I will be modding it too. So I already collected and sorted most important notes.

All required signals can be taken directly from the main IC. Unsolder it first, then the rest is up to your creativity.
The main IC is the one that is still hidden under tape(?) on your pictures.

Here you go:
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Offline seung

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« Reply #5 on: Mon, 13 December 2010, 00:26:17 »
That's awesome news sixty! Will you be posting a how-to? I would be very interested.
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« Reply #6 on: Mon, 13 December 2010, 00:51:51 »
Quote from: seung;262072
That's awesome news sixty! Will you be posting a how-to? I would be very interested.

I will probably be using the Aikon controller, which is a custom programmable controller. If you can solder its not that hard to make one yourself from $7 worth of parts. I plan to write a work-log as I build the controller and convert a board. I'm still fairly new to these type of mods, so it should be easy to follow too.

Might take some time though, as I still have not received the board I plan to convert.
I already did some experiments with another WYSE board earlier this year though:

http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:8308
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« Reply #7 on: Mon, 13 December 2010, 06:15:18 »
So it's not a WY-85 keyboard...but it does use the same plug. It's possible the kbdbabel converter for WY-85 applies to this one also.

Edit: yeah, it should. kbdbabel is for WY-85 and "PCE", that keyboard says "PCE" on it.
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« Reply #8 on: Thu, 16 December 2010, 08:36:36 »
Yesterday I got said board and was working on it for most of the night.



We surprisingly get 6 key roll on USB too!



Got it all working and its pretty awesome.. besides one tiny mistake. I forgot that the entire construction still has to fit into the original WYSE case. Oopss!

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