deskthority

I've been hacking again on a new Minila with TMK's firmware.

The documentation I've written may be useful to others who are interested in hacking these boards.

https://github.com/jonhiggs/ml67/tree/master/doc

Sounds like something Rick Wakeman would feel right at home in.

When I get around to finishing the ML62, I might think about making another to switch to the function layer. For now, CTRL is mapped to capslock and I don't use option very much so I don't really have much need for another one. But having said that, it would be easy to run a cable out the side of on...

Today I was having some trouble with RSI in my thumb from hitting command too much. I put together a footswitch to hopefully sort it all out. If anyone else is interested, the instructions are at https://github.com/jonhiggs/fs01. A super quick project that you should be able to put together in aroun...

Hahaha, that's not a bad idea. I had a play to see if I could make it fit but no luck. The cherry switches are looking for a square 14.5mm hole with a thickness of about 2mm to latch onto. That's not an easy one to make with lego. It naturally wants to make a hole of a multiple of 8mm. You may be ab...

Hey, I've been hacking away on a new computer for the last month or so. It basically started as an idea for an awesome keyboard. Something that's built with a nice Unix type layout like the old Sun Type 5 keyboards. Then I decided it'd be cool if there was a little computer in there. And of course, ...

Well, I worked out the problem. Half the pins don't do anything, and worse, some of them make the whole thing go mental. I've given up on the Leonardo and have a Teensy 2.0 on it's way.

I'm having some trouble getting my keys to register. Using the matrix code pulled straight from the gh60 keyboard I was getting some keys to register, not the right ones and not all of them, but some of them at least worked. You can see the code while it was somewhat working at https://github.com/jo...

oh shit, I thought they were resistors (couldn't see them because they were on the other side of the board. Now that you mention it I'll have to double-check I've taken my connections from the right side of the diodes. I think it's good... I hope it's good.

I'm ready to start trying to get the Arduino to start recognising key-presses. Do the rows (the ones with resistors) need to be connected to analog pins? I assume the columns are digital.

Great. I'll prototype it up and if it doesn't physically fit, I'll swap in a teensy 2.

In order to get free shipping on a Digi-Key order, I've got an Arduino Leonardo (http://arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardLeonardo) coming. Is that just as good as a Teensy 2?

I'm struggling to set up a build environment for the Teensy 3.0. When using any of the Arduino packages (1.0.5, 1.5.5 or nightly) I'm getting this error: keymap_plain.c:1: error: MCU ‘mk20dx128’ supported for assembler only And when using the Ubuntu 'arduino' package I'm getting: avr-gcc: error: unr...

Hi everyone, I'm working on making my own Minila t.m.k. keyboard too. In the spirit of this thread here is my repo of where I'm at. https://github.com/jonhiggs/ml62. I've documented everything I've worked out so far so hopefully it'll be a good help for anyone else trying to do the same. I'm sure la...