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I think I'm going to solder wires directly to that one broken connector, but do everything else as planned, having a pinned Teensy 2 and the unbroken ribbon connector in a breadboard, and have the broken connector with the wires go directly to the other side of the board (I have no idea if i'm using ...

Woops, okay, got that link fixed, and the album built~ And it really is a beast, it's been a real time messing with that old boy.
And thanks a lot for the info on getting new connectors! I was afraid it was just gone. I found a place where it looks like I can even get a 'sample' 0o0

EDIT: You know ...

So, that's something to work around. Upon further inspection, both ribbons have leads with no inner wire going to them, so I'm guessing those are inert, but none of them line up with my broken pin. I'll see if I can find myself a replacement connector or just skip the connector for one ribbon. I won ...

:D Sweet, man, thanks for all the info! Those two Teensy pictures clear up a lot of mystique surrounding what I've read about building a keyboard, namely Teensy's pin allocations and such.
I spent a while today cleaning the board the rest of the way and desoldering the ribbon connectors from the ...

I'm new to this kinda thing, don't even own a mech yet, and I want my first to be one that I had a hand in making functional. Wanna make my techy friends jealous. The reason I've taken this on is that I recently got an IBM Wheelwriter 5000 from in a storage closet at work, and it presented itself as ...