Kiibohd 10 - Bay Area Monthly Keyboard Meetup

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HaaTa
Master Kiibohd Hunter

06 Nov 2014, 01:58

Another month, another meetup :D
This time a bit closer to South Bay.

samwisekoi has offered to host at 724support.com :thumb:
Same place that Keycon West 2014 was hosted at this summer.

December 6th 2014 @ 1 PM

Address
724support.com
Stand Sure Systems
1077B Independence Ave
Mountain View, CA 94043
San Antonio is the closest Caltrain station.


jwaz has been asking me for probably a year now about doing a presentation on keyboard protocols (and reverse engineering) so I thought I'd make that the focus of this meetup.
I'll make a small presentation as well as some demos.

I have all the tools necessary, but if anyone has a more portable oscilloscope (mine is an old analog one) that would be amazing.
Some of the tools I'll need to do a proper demo
  • Breadboard /w assortment of wires, connectors, and resistors
  • Teensy 2/3 (I prefer to do all new code on ARM microcontrollers)
  • Logic Analyzer (I'll be bringing a Salae Logic 8 )
  • Variable power supply (in case the keyboard has a greater than 5V input voltage)
  • Multimeter (with continuity)
  • Soldering iron and basic soldering tools if things get interesting
  • Oscilloscope for the early reverse engineering
I'll be using a computer with Arch Linux. USB HID debugging is *way* easier with Linux.
Windows has tools available, but setup is annoying.
Mac OSX is basically the worst as you have to buy expensive tools to debug properly (though you can get some things after installing some devtools from Apple).

Haven't decided which protocols I'll demo, but I'll take suggestions (if I have the keyboard, and I can get it working before the meetup).


Please RSVP if you plan to attend.
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=65278.0

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Compgeke

06 Nov 2014, 03:17

I'll see if I can come then - maybe have my mom and brother go to the CHM.

I have a Tek TDS684B I can bring. If you have probes you can have fun - it even has VGA out.

jacobolus

06 Nov 2014, 04:27

I have a Televideo keyboard with a phone connector you’re welcome to reverse engineer for us live, as a demo. :-P

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HaaTa
Master Kiibohd Hunter

29 Nov 2014, 06:51

FYI, 1 week away :D

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