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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: jayeye on Sun, 24 May 2015, 13:24:33
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[size=78%]Is Benjamin Gould on this forum? Apparently I cannot search by author name![/size]
[/size][size=78%]Anyway, has anyone here built his [/size]https://learn.adafruit.com/convert-your-model-m-keyboard-to-bluetooth-with-bluefruit-ez-key-hid/overview? I just did (also found an error in the article, already notified Adafruit), and I have some improvements in mind, but if other people have implemented them already I'd rather not reinvent the square wheel. In particular:
- I have a stash of full-size Model Ms (PS/2 layout) with a trackpoint. It would be great to also send mouse events over the BT. The PS/2 mouse protocol is not hard to implement, just tedious.
- A USB connection, rather than a bluetooth connection, would be more useful (at least to me) in most situations, esp. since the LiPo battery I have doesn't last more than a couple of hours, and it seems silly to have the keyboard plugged in to a USB port only to get power, and communicate over bluetooth!
- Again on the subject of USB, a DigiSpark would be the ideal platform -- it has four free input pins (clock+data for keyboard and mouse), unlike the Trinket, which only brings out three of them (both use two more pins for a bit-banged usb implementation).
Again, neither is rocket science, but I believe in code reuse :)
Yes, I'm familiar with the original project (tmk_keyboard)!
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you can search for posts by user using the advanced search https://geekhack.org/index.php?action=search;advanced
Real names are not available of course.
Bluetooth IBM : the first was this I believe.
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=19104.msg365253#msg365253
Running a quick search for "bluetooth ibm" also turns most of this info up. I believe this is the project you are looking for:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=58015.0
This is another one as well using a handheldsci adapter
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=43173.0