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Offline fohat.digs

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“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power."
He paused for a moment, then thundered, “Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power!”
“In vain,” Roosevelt said, “they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”
- Franklin Roosevelt 1933

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Re: possible Space Invaders - check out the Return key!
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 03 April 2014, 19:56:06 »
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Re: possible Space Invaders - check out the Return key!
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 03 April 2014, 21:30:20 »
thanks for the link.

I've been meaning to get one of these.

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Re: possible Space Invaders - check out the Return key!
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 03 April 2014, 21:53:11 »
That looks badass. Can it be modded for PC use?

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Re: possible Space Invaders - check out the Return key!
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 04 April 2014, 01:07:55 »
That looks badass. Can it be modded for PC use?

I plan to direct wire

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Re: possible Space Invaders - check out the Return key!
« Reply #5 on: Sat, 05 April 2014, 03:03:34 »
I'd actually been kinda looking at these after the other televideo keyboards with space invaders showed up. I could tell from one of the pictures of one with missing switches that they weren't space invaders because of the positions of the missing legs, but didn't know what they were other than guessing they would probably be linear given their choice of linear space invaders in the other ones.

That looks badass. Can it be modded for PC use?

AFAIK, if you do a controller swap, any and all switches that work via contacts of some kind can be done in the same way. The other linked geekhack page is another way - just using the plate and pretty much throwing away the PCB and just hand-wiring the entire matrix direct to the teensy.
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Re: possible Space Invaders - check out the Return key!
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 10 April 2014, 21:11:18 »
I have one of these that was my guinea pig retrobrighting foray.  It looks pretty good.  Better than that one.  I never imagined anyone would find it desirable.  It's switches are extremely short throw and extremely hard mushy.  It's the only keyboard I think I have where I'd want to stand up to get better leverage on.  Not good.


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Re: possible Space Invaders - check out the Return key!
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 10 April 2014, 21:43:13 »

I never imagined anyone would find it desirable. 


White Hi-Tek switches are not to my liking, but I love the black ones.

If only there was one with a proper Enter/Backspace configuration!
“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power."
He paused for a moment, then thundered, “Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power!”
“In vain,” Roosevelt said, “they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”
- Franklin Roosevelt 1933