First, the result for the thumbnail at the mainpage:



Is there a better place for cutting as much as possible lines?


I wanted to keep the little side wings from the buttons. They keep the buttons down.
So i have to make place for the buttons and their wings (plastic scratching):



The holes:


The housing fits a little the mousebottuns so i kept them:


Searching the right fixpoint for the trackpoint:


It's getting hot:




The PCB's from Tipro have tracelines on both sides! I knew this already from insert a touchpad.
Either way it's not easy with plate mounted switches

I hope you enjoy the pics, thanks for watching.

Great mod. Where did you get the trackpoint from?

Also, why didn't you put the mousebottons in the already existing gap left and right of the Space key?

this is a trackpoint from a IBM KPD8923.
Fortunately tipo33 was great in harvesting the tp from the kbd's for me.

http://deskthority.net/workshop-f7/ibm-kpd8923-dissasembly-and-trackpoint-harvesting-t2807.html?hilit=harvesting

myself wrote:"The housing fits a little the mousebottuns so i kept them"

The only alternate idea was, i would like to have cherry mx switches for mousebuttons.
But imo there is not enough space.
And, it was complicated enough

Damn, girl! The way you mounted the mouse buttons looks awesome!

Great mod, the buttons look as if they were original Tipro!
Care to show the keyboard fully equipped with keycaps and trackpoint cap?

some more impressions





Unfortunately the Tipro 2 piece caps are not the best to cut/file...

Of course i will change the layout 2 ANSI.

Greate job!
How do you feel when you type H and N key? no problem?
I also always use trackpoint with my right index finger, that position of nub looks like easier for right handed.

Splendid!

hasu wrote:Greate job!
How do you feel when you type H and N key? no problem?
I also always use trackpoint with my right index finger, that position of nub looks like easier for right handed.

After a while i could say something about the usage. It' s good to have the TP between H, J and N. It's fine, because the nubble has the same hight as the caps. The optic feels a bit different. A few times i pusched my keyboard to the left "more in the middle". But the middle isn't here the TP is.

Since the TP is there, i don't want to move my hands anywhere. So i put the arrow keys to JIKL 2nd layer.
Now i could live without a scrollwheel. "Scrolling" with I and K is good.
I want to put HOME and END also near by. I think about 8 for HOME and , for END 2nd layer.
Alternative 3rd layer I and K.

I changed also the bottom row to: CTRL, ALT, Layer3, Layer2, SPACE, Layer2, Layer3,ALTGR, Backspace
But Backspace is also set to SPACE 2nd Layer.

I'm also pleased with the TP buttons positions. In my next mod, i will try to put 2 or 3 MX switches as TP buttons down under the spacebar. Have to check the space there once again.

Otherwise as to my last mod for a working keyboard (2 time 96 matrix layout with touhpad) i feel confident in about 1 hour. It's my new daily driver at work, although i did not changed the switches from black to blue.

2x 96 Tipro w/ Trackpoint.

The TP is in a increased hole of a switch mount.



The mouse buttons are the two switches in the lower left of the right hand modul.
Hope you enjoy the pic.

CeeSA wrote:some more impressions

*pictures*

Unfortunately the Tipro 2 piece caps are not the best to cut/file...

Of course i will change the layout 2 ANSI.

Interesting, would it be possible to do a little hackjob, and cut off the top part?
To kinda make your own compact keyboard?

CeeSA wrote:2x 96 Tipro w/ Trackpoint.

Thats quite a cool idea for a split keyboard.

But it seem hard to get this 96 tipros (or 64 tipro) for a good price. 128 tipros are cheep to buy (I got a lot of 10 for 69€ on ebay an hour ago), but a split keybord with 128 keys for each hand is a little big (even the 2*96 split keyboard is a bit large).
The changable keycaps are also a very interesting thing - I want neo2-layout (something like dvorak4germans), and these keycaps would be perfect for relabeling. Do anyone know a distributer for this keycaps? As tipro uses MX black, the caps shoult be very universal for other boards also...

I will also see to get a Trackpoint to integrate it in one of my tipros.

maybe I could sell you some keycaps. What do you need?

In the past years we have a little groupbuy for Tipro things. Half-Saint did the buying. I did the orga and proxy.
The last GB seems to be stuck....
http://deskthority.net/marketplace-f11/tipro-parts-t2933.html?hilit=Tipro%20GB

Thanks for the offer.

As the delivery of my freshly ordered tipros will take a week, It will take 1-2 weeks to inspect and check wich keykaps (if any) are needed. I ll tell when I know.

Your mod looks a bit better than mine...



(pictures from the build)
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But I would never be able to work with the trackpoint in the wrong location. The other mod was really nice though. I've have also considered getting a split keyboard and put a trackpoint in it. But I have too much other projects going on to have time to mod another keyboard.

Great!-))
Which controller did you use? Do you use the controller that came with the trackpoint?