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geekhack Community => New Members => Topic started by: zacbir on Thu, 20 November 2014, 13:33:58
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Howdy.
Just picked up a lot of 4 Apple Extended Keyboard IIs. I plan on USBifying at least one of them via Teensy 2.0 and tmx code. Today I stumbled upon this entry from adafruit: https://learn.adafruit.com/convert-your-model-m-keyboard-to-bluetooth-with-bluefruit-ez-key-hid/overview and became more than a bit interested in modding one of the remaining as a Bluetooth keyboard. There doesn't seem to be as much room inside the AEKII as in the Model M, but I'll keep looking and noodling.
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Hi, welcome to geekhack!
You might want to post in the “making stuff together” subforum, as it gets a bit more traffic than the new members section.
AEK IIs are great keyboards, especially the ones from before 1994. I really like the keycaps.
I’ve had great success installing a Teensy in a couple of other ADB keyboards and using hasu’s tmk_keyboard firmware. Don’t hesitate to ask questions in the dedicated thread about ADB conversion (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=14290), and hasu and other folks will stop by to answer.
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WELCOME TO GH
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Welcome to Geekhack!
If your project does get off the ground, please post pictures and a build log if possible. Every now and again someone does ask about a bluetooth keyboard, so there definitely seems to be some demand for them.
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Funny you should mention that. Here's my post to the "ADB to USB keyboard converter thread": https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=14290.msg1563262#msg1563262
Seems to be a 100% success. I'm typing on it now.
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Funny you should mention that. Here's my post to the "ADB to USB keyboard converter thread": https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=14290.msg1563262#msg1563262
Seems to be a 100% success. I'm typing on it now.
Nicely done :)
Any plans to wrap the Teensy in something to protect it?
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I have done several ADB to USB conversions using HASUs code. I also have several AEKIIs that I will be converting (3 of them) so if you are interested, I can take pictures of the conversion process for you.
(I probably won't get to them for about 2 weeks though)
-Ezra
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Funny you should mention that. Here's my post to the "ADB to USB keyboard converter thread": https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=14290.msg1563262#msg1563262
Seems to be a 100% success. I'm typing on it now.
Nicely done :)
Any plans to wrap the Teensy in something to protect it?
Yeah, I'm going to try and model something in SketchUp Make and have friends print it. We'll see. I don't get my own 3D printer until Father's Day 2015.
I also wrote up the process and a subsequent project (Caps Lock -> Control) on my blog: http://zacbir.net/blog/2014/12/16/nimitz-alive/ (http://zacbir.net/blog/2014/12/16/nimitz-alive/) and http://zacbir.net/blog/2014/12/19/getting-control-over-caps-lock/ (http://zacbir.net/blog/2014/12/19/getting-control-over-caps-lock/).
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Funny you should mention that. Here's my post to the "ADB to USB keyboard converter thread": https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=14290.msg1563262#msg1563262
Seems to be a 100% success. I'm typing on it now.
Nicely done :)
Any plans to wrap the Teensy in something to protect it?
Yeah, I'm going to try and model something in SketchUp Make and have friends print it. We'll see. I don't get my own 3D printer until Father's Day 2015.
I also wrote up the process and a subsequent project (Caps Lock -> Control) on my blog: http://zacbir.net/blog/2014/12/16/nimitz-alive/ (http://zacbir.net/blog/2014/12/16/nimitz-alive/) and http://zacbir.net/blog/2014/12/19/getting-control-over-caps-lock/ (http://zacbir.net/blog/2014/12/19/getting-control-over-caps-lock/).
With a 3D printer you could print your own keycaps ;)