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Offline y11971alex

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Soarer's Converter: Pre-made or Home-made
« on: Sat, 05 March 2016, 17:13:22 »
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/NEW-XT-AT-to-USB-Soarers-Converter-Remapping-Macros-NKRO-Support-IBM-Model-F-/281476427201?hash=item41894d6dc1:g:U4cAAOSwDN1USZL-

I'll be needing one of these in the near future.  This item as it stands is about CAD$60 shipped, but if I made the converter according to the guidelines on this forum, all the materials plus shipping combined would also come up about $60. 

Which should I go with?
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Re: Soarer's Converter: Pre-made or Home-made
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 05 March 2016, 17:30:37 »
Quote from: y11971alex on Sat, 05 March 2016, 17:13:22
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/NEW-XT-AT-to-USB-Soarers-Converter-Remapping-Macros-NKRO-Support-IBM-Model-F-/281476427201?hash=item41894d6dc1:g:U4cAAOSwDN1USZL-

I'll be needing one of these in the near future.  This item as it stands is about CAD$60 shipped, but if I made the converter according to the guidelines on this forum, all the materials plus shipping combined would also come up about $60. 

Which should I go with?

Huh? A Teensy is about $22 delivered to my door in Atlanta, $17 if I buy it at Micro Center. And a mini-USB cable is about $2. I know Canadian shipping is expensive, but not that.

Are you talking about buying a soldering iron and all the basic supplies?
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“All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating of these in the same hands, is precisely the definition of despotic government. An ELECTIVE DESPOTISM was not the government we fought for; but one .... in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.” — Thomas Jefferson, commentary on Federalist 48

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Re: Soarer's Converter: Pre-made or Home-made
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 05 March 2016, 17:33:07 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Sat, 05 March 2016, 17:30:37
Quote from: y11971alex on Sat, 05 March 2016, 17:13:22
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/NEW-XT-AT-to-USB-Soarers-Converter-Remapping-Macros-NKRO-Support-IBM-Model-F-/281476427201?hash=item41894d6dc1:g:U4cAAOSwDN1USZL-

I'll be needing one of these in the near future.  This item as it stands is about CAD$60 shipped, but if I made the converter according to the guidelines on this forum, all the materials plus shipping combined would also come up about $60. 

Which should I go with?

Huh? A Teensy is about $22 delivered to my door in Atlanta, and a mini-USB cable is about $2. I know Canadian shipping is expensive, but not that.

Are you talking about buying a soldering iron and all the basic supplies?
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Teensy-2-0-with-Pins-/321646889182?hash=item4ae3a608de:g:LGMAAOSw1vlUvlWh
A Teensy is CAD$35 + $12 shipping, and it seems I still need the breadboard and a female 5-pin DIN to get the wiring through from the original cable.
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Re: Soarer's Converter: Pre-made or Home-made
« Reply #3 on: Sat, 05 March 2016, 17:44:49 »
A breadboard is entirely optional. I buy Teensies direct from pjrc https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy.html

I would mount the Teensy internal and forget all the messy cable connections, but then I can do it the other way, too:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=58941.msg1348717#msg1348717

Finding the female receptacle for the DIN plug is a pain, I have spares of both kinds (face-mount and cable-end) but it would probably cost $10 to ship it to you from the US.


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“All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating of these in the same hands, is precisely the definition of despotic government. An ELECTIVE DESPOTISM was not the government we fought for; but one .... in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.” — Thomas Jefferson, commentary on Federalist 48

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Re: Soarer's Converter: Pre-made or Home-made
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 05 March 2016, 17:52:18 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Sat, 05 March 2016, 17:44:49
A breadboard is entirely optional. I buy Teensies direct from pjrc https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy.html

I would mount the Teensy internal and forget all the messy cable connections, but then I can do it the other way, too:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=58941.msg1348717#msg1348717

Finding the female receptacle for the DIN plug is a pain, I have spares of both kinds (face-mount and cable-end) but it would probably cost $10 to ship it to you from the US.
I'm not entirely comfortable with working with soldering irons, which is why I want to do it on a breadboard with pins.  It would be nice if someone could invent metallic superglue!
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Re: Soarer's Converter: Pre-made or Home-made
« Reply #5 on: Sat, 05 March 2016, 18:45:17 »
Quote from: y11971alex on Sat, 05 March 2016, 17:52:18
It would be nice if someone could invent metallic superglue!


Solder is wonderful because you can re-melt it and take it apart with no damage to anything - if you are careful and/or lucky.
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“All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating of these in the same hands, is precisely the definition of despotic government. An ELECTIVE DESPOTISM was not the government we fought for; but one .... in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.” — Thomas Jefferson, commentary on Federalist 48
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