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Title: Hasu's Non ADB to USB adapter for NeXT keyboard
Post by: joneslee85 on Mon, 05 October 2015, 05:14:28

I've received the adapter for my Non ADB NeXT keyboard today. The adapter is made by @Hasu and it works out of the box.
The adapter have micro female USB port and you will need to get microUSB to USB cable to hook it up to your computer.

(http://i.imgur.com/9KUrbgr.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/P7FIoqc.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/5gl5BXz.jpg)

Title: Re: Hasu's Non ADB to USB adapter for NeXT keyboard
Post by: njbair on Mon, 05 October 2015, 20:04:22

Have you had a chance to play around with the firmware yet? TMK is my favorite thing to work with.

Title: Re: Hasu's Non ADB to USB adapter for NeXT keyboard
Post by: joneslee85 on Mon, 05 October 2015, 23:14:10

Not yet, I am just too busy to play around with it atm.

Title: Re: Hasu's Non ADB to USB adapter for NeXT keyboard
Post by: joneslee85 on Wed, 07 October 2015, 23:17:48

@hasu:
There is Mouse Port on the keyboard to connect to NeXT mouse. is that NonADB port as well?

Title: Re: Hasu's Non ADB to USB adapter for NeXT keyboard
Post by: DanielT on Thu, 08 October 2015, 13:34:51

For me the adapter is less important, more important ia the fact that that is a NeXT keyboard, a piece of computer history with a cool layout too  :cool:

Title: Re: Hasu's Non ADB to USB adapter for NeXT keyboard
Post by: macguy80 on Thu, 31 December 2015, 01:22:52

To my ears, those sound like orange Alps switches? :)

Title: Re: Hasu's Non ADB to USB adapter for NeXT keyboard
Post by: Trente on Wed, 18 October 2017, 16:26:21

Hey there, I am curious how did you set up your keyboard. I had purchased the converter from Hasu recently, and I am using the MBP 15 2017, but my mac seems always unable to identify the board and during the setup I can't pass the first identification step. I am not sure if it is my board got some problem or the converter need some setup.

Title: Re: Hasu's Non ADB to USB adapter for NeXT keyboard
Post by: Pdbonlucas on Sat, 31 March 2018, 23:27:39

I will say that this converter works great with the NeXT Non-ADB Keyboard and on Windows too! It has the greater advantage over the more recent Drakware Non-ADB converter in that the Power and Brightness keys respond to key presses thus can be remapped. Unlike Drak's where those would be just "dead" keys.

Great job Hasu!

Title: Re: Hasu's Non ADB to USB adapter for NeXT keyboard
Post by: macclack on Sun, 01 April 2018, 00:15:17

That's a fantastic looking keyboard--wish I could get my hands on one. What kind of switches do they use?

Title: Re: Hasu's Non ADB to USB adapter for NeXT keyboard
Post by: p_blaze on Sun, 01 April 2018, 00:33:11

Quote from: macclack on Sun, 01 April 2018, 00:15:17

That's a fantastic looking keyboard--wish I could get my hands on one. What kind of switches do they use?

black alps
edit: nvm they can also be cream[ivory] alps

Title: Re: Hasu's Non ADB to USB adapter for NeXT keyboard
Post by: Blaise170 on Wed, 04 April 2018, 14:40:19

I had a Portugese version of the NeXT keyboard and it was great. Tried to replace the black switches with Green Alps and for some reason the controller died and wouldn't connect to my converter anymore. So ended up desoldering them all and now I have a bag of Green Alps and doubleshot PT keys.