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Offline captsis

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Children's Keyboard switch conversion?
« on: Sat, 03 March 2018, 20:01:35 »
Anyone seen or remember these?


I believe they had them at the local library in the "Whiz Kidz Zone" (yes it was actually called that LOL) where they had computers for the kids to use. This had to have been over 10 years ago, but this thread reminded me. Getting to the point, would it be possible to modify one and make it a mech? The only thing that comes to mind is gutting it and hand wiring it with a teensy, but is there a pcb that would fit the case? Of course there would have to be some level of modification of the case.

And what about the keycaps? are there any similar sets to this? If nothing else there's always pad printed WASD caps *shudder* for a one off run. Possible group buy idea maybe? ;D

Link to Amazon listing (out of stock).

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Re: Children's Keyboard switch conversion?
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 06 March 2018, 00:09:29 »
Today's quote: '...“but then the customer successfully broke that.”

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Re: Children's Keyboard switch conversion?
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 06 March 2018, 00:25:08 »
One of the guys in Atlanta had an ALPS version of the "Childrens Ortholinear TKL" that people find. It was grey... had red, yellow, and blue caps in places... I wish for the life of me I could find a good one for sale. My kid uses this one that Plugable gave her: https://i.imgur.com/4xsXqeFl.jpg
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Re: Children's Keyboard switch conversion?
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 06 March 2018, 00:53:31 »


One of the guys in Atlanta had an ALPS version of the "Childrens Ortholinear TKL" that people find. It was grey... had red, yellow, and blue caps in places... I wish for the life of me I could find a good one for sale. My kid uses this one that Plugable gave her: https://i.imgur.com/4xsXqeFl.jpg

Adorable!

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Re: Children's Keyboard switch conversion?
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 06 March 2018, 11:09:23 »
Today's quote: '...“but then the customer successfully broke that.”

Offline captsis

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Re: Children's Keyboard switch conversion?
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 06 March 2018, 20:28:58 »
Looks like Alibaba has the child's ortho available:
    https://guide.alibaba.com/guidesearch.html?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_en&CatId=&SearchText=DURAGADGET+keyboard

Group buy?

I'm thinking about a possible GB of the keycaps. something like this. If I could get some kind of momentum or input on the design by people that would be awesome.

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Re: Children's Keyboard switch conversion?
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 07 March 2018, 06:07:08 »
This looks cute, but isn't what I would use on a daily basis. If you built one like that, where are you going to use it?

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Re: Children's Keyboard switch conversion?
« Reply #8 on: Wed, 07 March 2018, 06:22:02 »
This looks cute, but isn't what I would use on a daily basis. If you built one like that, where are you going to use it?
Id think it'd go great on my purple espectro when that ships!

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Re: Children's Keyboard switch conversion?
« Reply #9 on: Sat, 10 March 2018, 14:07:56 »
Looks like Alibaba has the child's ortho available:
    https://guide.alibaba.com/guidesearch.html?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_en&CatId=&SearchText=DURAGADGET+keyboard

Group buy?

Crayola sells a keyboard and mouse exactly like this.  It's rubber dome - we had one, but the kids never really used it.