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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => DIY Discussions ARCHIVE => Topic started by: wcass on Sat, 24 March 2012, 19:33:47
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I started my TSSK (http://geekhack.org/?title=Island:20999) mod in July of 2011; I just finished it today. The last part of the mod was to get a working controller. Thanks to Soarer’s Converter, that is finally done. If you are not familiar with it, you can read about it and download the code from here (http://geekhack.org/?title=Island:17458).
Early in my project, I knew that the keyboard would be USB and I wanted a removable cable. When I ordered a Teensy, I also ordered the “panel mount” USB cable, but that did not work very well. First, the two vertical pins on the bottom of the case had to come off because they blocked the “ears” of the panel mount cable. I also had to drill two holes on the back. After mounting the cable, I found that it protruded too far into the case to allow the case to close properly.
I had seen others use is a standard USB-B plug, but that is much smaller than the hole on the back of the Model M. I did not want to leave a large void like that and I liked the positive lock of the original IBM cable. The ideal thing to use would be an SDL connector as it would exactly fill the hole on the back of the Model M. The down side of this choice is that SDL connectors are almost impossible to find. And I would need a special crimp tool to get the plug on the end of a USB cable.
Hay, I have a crimp tool for RJ45 – might that work? Sure. The jack height is the same as SDL and although the width is not, it is much closer than a USB-B would have been.
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Very nice mod, and good use of a rj45 plug. I might have to try ths one now. Just curious did you have to swap those caps from a unicomp or were you able to buy the caps from them directly?
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Nicely done! I like the use of an rj45. Very cool idea. Also I like the blue color of your board!
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i had a unicomp, so did swap many of the keys.
but keycaps are cheap from unicomp; $25 for a full set and if you get the full set, you can get proper Win and Menu keys.
one thing to note though is that i did not get all of the special print keys exactly as i wanted them. you need to be very specific - particularly about the size/shape of the key (1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, etc) and whether to print the text or symbol for things like Pause or Play.
BTW, i was not crazy about unicomp's volume down or mute symbols, but thought the mute looked ok for a volume down. i access mute using a macro - shift volume down. below is the code i use for this keyboard.
# Billy's TSSK layout
remapblock
F7 DELETE
F8 END
F9 PAGE_DOWN
F10 LEFT
F11 DOWN
F12 RIGHT
F13 F7
F14 F8
F15 F9
F16 F10
F17 F11
F18 F12
F19 INSERT
F20 HOME
F21 PAGE_UP
F22 SCROLL_LOCK
F23 UP
F24 PAUSE
FAKE_06 BACKSLASH
FAKE_08 ESC
FAKE_09 PRINTSCREEN
FAKE_10 MEDIA_MEDIA_SELECT
FAKE_11 MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE
FAKE_12 MEDIA_PREV_TRACK
FAKE_13 MEDIA_NEXT_TRACK
FAKE_14 MEDIA_VOLUME_DOWN
FAKE_15 MEDIA_VOLUME_UP
FAKE_16 APP
FAKE_17 LGUI
endblock
macroblock
macro MEDIA_VOLUME_DOWN shift
PRESS MEDIA_MUTE
endmacro
endblock
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Nicely done! I like the use of an rj45. Very cool idea. Also I like the blue color of your board!
Thanks.
the color is a Dupli-Color Vinyl and Fabric HPV102. i found it on line and then called all my local auto parts stores and asked them to check the shelves. one place had it and it was much cheaper than getting it shipped via web order. i think it looks really nice with the gray keys and silver logo.
if i wanted to spend enough to get this perfect, i would have ordered a SDL socket and custom 1.5" x .75" pcb for the case. the cable would start with an the real thing and just replace the AT/PS2 connector with a USB. but i think the RJ45 looks pretty good for < $1 worth of parts.