deskthority

Should I start modeling the F104 and FSSK for the technical manual?

Ars ran an article.

What if the blocker is designed to hold the spring roughly like an unpressed key?

Very very impressive. Are there plans for zinc M-style cases?

I was also amazed, then I checked the date.

I am however getting characters not appearing in the right order if I type fast, sometimes. I vaguely remember this could be fixed by updating the firmware? (sorry, there's been so much discussion, and I don' see this mentioned in the manual. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place...) I second th...

Greetings! I have a few silly questions: 1. Where can I download the signal level monitor? This program: qmk6.png 2. Where can I find the source files for the version of QMK generated by the online configurator? http://35.164.28.200:5000 This looks like a fork of the regular online configurator that...

I have another silly question. How did the original vintage capacitive keyboards work reliably without the need to manually tweak voltages or thresholds?

USB is silly complicated. Why not generate XT or AT scan codes using discrete components and leave all the translation/fancification to a separate middlebox?

I have a silly question. Why is the chip in the keyboard as powerful as an entire minicomputer from the 70s? How were keyboards made in ancient times without do much computing power?

Sheepless wrote: ↑

24 Mar 2022, 18:34

On the other hand, I suspect that most people who have been waiting years wouldn't mind an extra fortnight to get a pristine box, if only because it helps the resale value.

But I would mind waiting an extra 6 months because enough other people want their fancy box.

That's great! Happy ${HOLIDAY} keycaps.

But where are the stepped shift/caps, or the number row with front printed F keys?

I'm attaching the openscad source for the f77 model I used to make the renders for the technical manual one year ago. Perhaps others can put it to better use than I.

Ellipse:

Thanks for the quick response.

But if you reread my post you'll see that I'm not asking when my keyboard will be ready or about any shipping at all.

I'm asking about keyboards that already went out of the recent weeks. When were their corresponding orders placed?

Here's a question for Ellipse:

The keyboards that you're sending out now, when were their corresponding orders placed?

Ellipse wrote: ↑

20 Jan 2021, 18:20

expected early next year.

Early 2022?

I have a 10 year old Unicomp that has developed chatter in the function row. Interestingly it seems to go away in winters and return in summers. Also a 1990 Model M.with no chatter at all.

My point is that not all lesser keyboards necessarily suck.

Your intuition is about right. The controller sends a pulse on C1, then measures R1 and R2 at the same time. All the Rs are connected to different pins, so they are measured in parallel. Then the controller turns off the C1 pin, sends a pulse on C2, and measures R1 and R2 in parallel again. All the ...

darkcruix wrote: ↑

13 Oct 2020, 17:18

Uploaded a new version (0.5.11) with several mostly cosmetic changes. Only correction I made is on page 4-48 with two new illustrations.

Spoiler:

Full_Keyboard_Explosion.jpeg

That's beautiful.

Ignore all my complaints about images looking bad. Every document viewer I have tried other than Firefox scales things down just fine.

Evince renders ModelFManual-Small.pdf quite well, but struggles with ModelFManual.pdf. The pictures you have in -Small.pdf now are fine.

I think Firefox is to blame. It seems to do a poor job downscaling images in a PDF document. Firefox on the left, Edge on the right.

ModelFManual: ModelFManual-Small:

I've uploaded the 'small' version with the latest 720p pictures. How does it look for you now? http://www.linux-tin.org/ModelFManual-Small.pdf 720z100.png 720z100-compact.png At 100% zoom, that image is about 140 pixels high. At what zoom do you expect people to read the document? Fit page width? F...

720p: classic_77_small.png classic_62_small.png 480p: classic_77_tiny.png classic_62_tiny.png 360p: classic_77_puny.png classic_62_puny.png I only have a MacBook Pro with me and the pictures look good - wither directly in Microsoft Edge or in Preview. I did re-run your pictures through a 300dpi dith...

The key layout views actually look fine - possibly because most lines are perpendicular. Only the perspective projection case views look not great.

720p: compact_77_small.png compact_62_small.png 480p: compact_77_tiny.png compact_62_tiny.png Note: that isn't the actual final resolution. It is the size of the buffer to which I render before cropping empty space around the keyboard. Edit: Original resolution scaled to 480p: compact_62_scaled.png

100%: 250%: My shader produces lines in screen space. If I render at lower resolution, it will look very different than scaling down a high resolution image.

The pictures in section 2.1 look fine on my 1440p desktop display, but unfortunately they look quite atrocious on my tiny 1366x768 laptop. I need 250% zoom for the lines to resolve.

:) I am currently out of the country and in a hotel room. I do have a F62 with me, but no rulers. I will try to buy one later today (and also a screw driver)... so bare with me. Or, and this might sound crazy, how about doing this when you return home? Your keyboard will still be there. Or maybe it...

@Zcool31: I have your beautiful barrel plate - I'd need a top and bottom half of a case also to replace my ugly drawing. Whenever you find a few minutes, could you ... :) ... help me with it? Not for free. I accept payment in photographs and measurements. First, the barrel positions, especially for...

The first version of my ISO enter render had an artifact: All the later renders have that fixed: I'm pointing this out in case darkcruix cares enough to change the images.