tl;dr: I have an HHKB pro 2 that is water damaged, and some of the components on the PCB appear to be fried. Does anyone have experience sourcing these components and heard success stories replacing them? If not, what can I do with this? Not afraid of doing some hackery on it, as it has served it's purpose and
A less than well behaved cat dumped a liter of water into my 5 year old modded hhkb in the middle of the night. It sat in water, plugged into my running pc all night, and in the morning, I started typing on it to wake the computer up, without noticing the puddle of water it had been sitting in. I unplugged it, shook some of the water out, not realizing how much was in there, and plugged it back in. It detects the controller, but the board produces no output. Since then I have disassembled the whole thing, dried it all out, and let it sit for a few days.
Since I live in Brooklyn and it looks as though I will have quite a bit of time on my hands for this, I was wondering how I should go about tackling it. I initially thought it was the controller, so I dug up the original controller and before I got to installing it, I noticed many of the traces near the ICs on the underside of the board were damaged. The Pro Micro still detects fine, and I suspect the problem is with these oxidized and burnt out looking traces in the photos. Is there any way I can continue to use the board and bypass whatever logic is embedded before it hits the controller? Am I totally screwed? Photos attached, will happily provide more detail.
I have the original controller, and a known-working hasu pro 2 bt controller that is installed in another board. I can use it for testing but would like to keep at least one board intact until I fix this one. I am fairly handy with a soldering iron, and have built a couple of complete custom boards before, but know next to nothing about what functionality I can bypass and replace on this one. I have a few teensy clones I am willing to sacrifice to this.
Any and all help appreciated.
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