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Offline o2dazone

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« on: Wed, 10 June 2009, 21:28:41 »
It's got the shape of a Realforce (without the top area or the arrows, etc), but the comments mention MX (Cherry?) and it's got a Filco keycap. Anyone know?



from KbdMania.net

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Offline huha

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« Reply #1 on: Wed, 10 June 2009, 21:44:00 »
It looks like a standard controller, so most likely no capacitive matrix scanning going on there. I'd suspect MX switches then.

edit: Okay. You can clearly see the PCB was cut off, and the switches are of the plate-mounted variety (no jumper wires there). The strain relief looks suspiciously Filco-ish, so I suspect it's a filco with most of the stuff cut off.

-huha
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Offline majestouch

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« Reply #2 on: Wed, 10 June 2009, 21:51:36 »
My best guess is that it is a very HIGHLY modded FILCO FKB104xxxx or FKBN104xxxx due to the position of the cable coming in.
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Offline watduzhkstand4

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« Reply #3 on: Wed, 10 June 2009, 22:38:51 »
that board looks sick. I thought it was a Filco at first or a Topre.
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Offline wheel83

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« Reply #4 on: Wed, 10 June 2009, 22:41:42 »
they dont eff around in japan thats for sure.  that kbdmania.net is a ****house of quality mods lol
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Offline chimera15

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« Reply #5 on: Wed, 10 June 2009, 22:57:15 »
Yeah, beautiful board.  Dreamboard for a lot of us here I would expect.  They figured out the color coded, no printed key number keys as well that's lost on hhk's.  You can actually figure out what number you're pressing if you need to for passwords, but still look cool. lol  I wish it was more muted colors, but still really great layout.
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Offline huha

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« Reply #6 on: Wed, 10 June 2009, 23:34:52 »
Quote from: wheel83;95357
they dont eff around in japan thats for sure.  that kbdmania.net is a ****house of quality mods lol


Korea.

-huha
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« Reply #7 on: Thu, 11 June 2009, 12:08:42 »
Good work on the case as well.
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Offline o2dazone

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« Reply #8 on: Thu, 11 June 2009, 12:31:39 »
On the right hand side you can see a very very light line there where they took the "cheek" of the board and glued it. Could be just the photo but yeah, impressive. I love the jumper lines on the circuit board, so neat and clean...
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #9 on: Thu, 11 June 2009, 12:45:36 »
I wouldn't mind getting a tenkeyless Filco, but what I realized is there is no numpad function at all unlike the IBM minis.  It's a shame, because I really need the numpad at work.
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Offline majestouch

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« Reply #10 on: Thu, 11 June 2009, 12:52:09 »
Quote from: itlnstln;95487
I wouldn't mind getting a tenkeyless Filco, but what I realized is there is no numpad function at all unlike the IBM minis.  It's a shame, because I really need the numpad at work.


Autohotkey? Someone sent me a script to do just that a couple weeks ago.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #11 on: Thu, 11 June 2009, 13:28:17 »
Quote from: majestouch;95490
Autohotkey? Someone sent me a script to do just that a couple weeks ago.

That would require work.  For that, I would just rather have the full-blown numpad.
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Offline sixty

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« Reply #12 on: Thu, 11 June 2009, 13:32:59 »
The controller used on this board is the LIMKB (Less is more Keyboard Controller) which was developed by the guys over at OTD and is pretty popular for all Korean Keyboard mods.

That controller also offers various custom features including macros and custom modifier/fn keys. So this board here might aswell have a virtual numpad!

If required I can ask a Korean friend later what exactly the post says, even though there doesn't seem to be much info in it.
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Offline huha

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« Reply #13 on: Thu, 11 June 2009, 15:02:39 »
The keyboard uses a LIMKB. Should be a quite decent controller, I'm currently only lacking the oscillator to try it out, which should arrive in a few days.

-huha
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Offline talis

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« Reply #14 on: Thu, 11 June 2009, 15:08:18 »
Quote from: huha;95533
The keyboard uses a LIMKB. Should be a quite decent controller, I'm currently only lacking the oscillator to try it out, which should arrive in a few days.

-huha


What Microcontroller does it use? Looks like a PIC16F or PIC18 series.
« Last Edit: Thu, 11 June 2009, 15:10:22 by talis »
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Offline bsvP585hUO2Y6

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« Reply #15 on: Thu, 11 June 2009, 15:22:15 »
talis writes:

> What Microcontroller does it use? Looks like a PIC16F or PIC18 series.

It's an atmega32.  Here's a proper picture of it:
http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/582395

regards,
andreas
« Last Edit: Thu, 11 June 2009, 15:24:24 by bsvP585hUO2Y6 »
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Offline talis

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« Reply #16 on: Thu, 11 June 2009, 15:30:44 »
Ah thanks, much easier to see in that picture.  The blob in the others sort of looked like the Microchip M logo.
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Offline IBI

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« Reply #17 on: Thu, 11 June 2009, 15:33:57 »
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Where'd Majestouch go?  Just tell Filco to build one willya?  The market needs a good quality mini board with a good arrow layout.


Preferably after they start building the European versions.

Quote from: itlnstln;95487
I wouldn't mind getting a tenkeyless Filco, but what I realized is there is no numpad function at all unlike the IBM minis.  It's a shame, because I really need the numpad at work.


On the other hand it does mean there's no poxy hardware programmed FN key that can't be used for anything and takes up prime real estate. I'd just go for an autohotkey script, just making a numpad won't take much work, especially if you only need the numbers and not the numlock off functions.
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