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[BUILD] Magic Keyboard 2 but mechanical

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wjrii:
I'm not a Mac user, but with GH being the forum software that it is, just wanted to pop in to say what a neat project this and I love seeing the updates.

binfill:
Fantastic update. I've been watching the progress for a while. I have wanted to do this on my keyboard for a while, but I lack the skills and dedication that you have :)

Kaisar:
I have been lurking this thread for some time and wanted to hop in and say that I love your work and appreciate your ressiliance on this project! I am an avid mac user and have always wanted the possibly to add touch id to my mechanical keyboards. I am in no way an expert in electronic; would you think there is a possibility of future pcb-makers to incoorporate your findings to their designs? I am hoping to add this to my excisting keyboards.

Piperaceae:
This is absolutely amazing, I'm glad I finally saw the most recent update got posted!

Limentic:
First of all, thanks everyone for your messages on this thread. I've read them all, but I can't respond to each one individually as it wouldn’t make much sense (I wish you could add reactions to messages, lol). The messages genuinely cheer me up and make me want to keep pushing forward with this project.


--- Quote from: Kaisar on Wed, 14 August 2024, 10:52:54 ---I have been lurking this thread for some time and wanted to hop in and say that I love your work and appreciate your ressiliance on this project! I am an avid mac user and have always wanted the possibly to add touch id to my mechanical keyboards. I am in no way an expert in electronic; would you think there is a possibility of future pcb-makers to incoorporate your findings to their designs? I am hoping to add this to my excisting keyboards.

--- End quote ---

To respond to you, Kaisar: I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "future pcb-makers to incoorporate your findings to their designs?" but if you mean adding Touch ID to a custom PCB, it would be impossible without further reverse engineering of the Magic Keyboard.

That's a whole other project, as it would involve completely reversing how the keyboard connects to the Mac, as well as reverse-engineering the entire Touch ID protocol to emulate a fake Magic Keyboard with a fake Touch ID sensor. Anything is possible with enough effort, but that's a whole different challenge compared to this project.

However, if you use a Magic Keyboard motherboard as a base, then yes, everything is possible. In theory, you could use another microcontroller to create a new matrix and wire it to the matrix connector of the Magic Keyboard however you want. This way, you could do split boards or anything else.

Just keep in mind that my findings are for the TKL version and the French layout of the Magic keyboard. A lot of work is still needed to verify whether the matrices are the same across all regions.

This is exactly why I've open-sourced this project. I hope other PCB makers will try to do something with the Magic Keyboard as a base and use this project as a foundation :)

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