deskthority

I fixed the macOS issue!

https://gist.github.com/dhorlick/f42133baab48ca7be8520e3c761a2bb9

The solution was to wait after matrix scanning starts (not before.)

It can also now tolerate the PS/2 connector being unplugged and plugged back in (which power-cycles the keyboard.)

I promise to stop ...

After giving up on a few approaches, I ended up sawing a 2cm wide (tall?) strip of craft wood. It fit snugly in the Ultra's top channel, and even left room for a pencil and eraser with which to keep the legend up to date! :)

F-key overlay.jpeg

With my firmware mod in place, I was able to map the ...

I believe it! :)

The wrap-around, hug-style overlays are retro & cool, but I suspect one of Bob's 102 replacement strips (or indeed a piece of dry erase tape, etc.) would work fine in lieu of them, if I were to stick one down inside the Ultra's pencil-holder channel.

My primary goal here is to get ...

Excellent, thanks for moving this forward!

My pleasure!

Bob Tibbetts at Northgate Keyboard Repair sold new F-key overlays (in three sections, not full width). Sadly Bob passed away, but I believe the company was revived by a new owner, so those may still be available.

Interesting, thanks for ...

I couldn't let it rest, so I constructed this little friend out of a Teensy 2.0 and a PS/2 breakout board.

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I flashed it with some custom code to dump PS/2 commands using the Arduino ps2dev library. I connected the device's USB to Computer 1 and opened up the Serial Monitor in ...

It mentions a 'kbutil.exe' program (for DOS, I imagine). But, I couldn't find that anywhere online. I've owned Omnikeys and Avants since the early 90s and I don't remember ever seeing that utility myself. I wonder if someone on the forums has a copy?


I think I've managed to find it, more or ...

Got my Industrial Gray F77 keyboard! Is another review necessary? No, but here's one anyway.

Only one keycap came pre-installed; the spacebar. I did have to press it about a dozen times before it would spring back reliably. But after that, I was pleased to find that both the hardware and the ...

I personally would recommend against complicating things with Karibiner-Elements… I'd completely uninstall it and just use System Prefs "Modifier Keys…"

I've never seen the System Prefs swapping approach not work, when used in isolation.

That said, the "right" way to swap the keys would be to ...

TMK supports mouse keys, as well.

https://github.com/tmk/tmk_core

Glad to hear it! I'm all about necro-posting

I recently learned of a "TracXcroll" kickstarter that supposedly does the same thing: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bi ... e-scroller

Yeah… black keyboards are cool, but I think they look bad when paired with gray-background keycaps.

I've read that it's difficult to put white legends onto black keycaps with dye sublimation. So I think they used to essentially paint the legends on, and they tended to wear off over time.

Repurposing a bakery cooling rack is a great idea… did you have it shipped?

I built shelving out of wood. The shelves consist of two flat boards (each subdivided from a single long board) glued together along their long axis. L-brackets connect the shelves to four vertical 2×2's.

keyboard shelf ...

There goes early September.

The trouble with "scroll mode switch" is that it hurts your hand after extensive use.

I don't know any cases where you need to move the mouse pointer and scroll at the same time, but it's fun to do! I have rigged-up an old Logitech Marble Trackball "Mouse" with Hasu's TMK USB to USB converter ...

matt3o, if you do design a trackball, how about replacing the scroll wheel with a scroll ball?

Last year I got a Unicomp Classic 104 White Buckling Spring PS2 with the custom 103 key mod. It's attractive and extremely crisp to type on. It doesn't have the weird plate covering up the area where the optional trackball button would have gone.

Full disclosure: it's really more beige than white ...

If they're from a Matias Pro keyboard with the Mac option symbol legends, then I'd be interested in the keycaps.

I thought it might be fun to remix USB signals from existing input devices into "new" ones.

I used Hasu’s great TMK USB to USB converter hardware ( https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=69169.0 ). I also adapted his tmk_keyboard firmware by adding another converter directory and one tiny, opt-in ...

You can hack Compose key functionality into macOS without any special extensions: http://www.webaugur.com/computers/58-mac-sun-keyboard.html

I find it useful for quickly entering some special characters that I can't remember the option combo for, or that don't have one.

On my trusty 101-key Model ...

Muirium wrote: How would I demand north of a grand for my 3278, for instance? Yet, I wouldn’t let it go for a song, either, as I’d feel robbed. So in its box it sits, like it did most all its many years.

Please go get it out of the box and use it!

My Christmas-time work setup: a white Leopold FC900R keyboard with black Cherry MX switches and mixed-and-matched white, red & green Tai-Hao ABS keycap sets. Custom-made pine display stand.

Happy Holidays!

Unicomp seems to offer a lot of parts & other stuff that aren't listed on their website. I'd contact them.

I like Unicomp keyboards a lot, and I agree that 1.25U bottom row modifiers are best. But I'm not a fan of the Spacesaver M in particular because I don't like that I have to hold down Fn to ...