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by ezrahilyer
09 Dec 2014, 19:54
Forum: Mice & other input devices
Topic: IBM Model 6450350
Replies: 30
Views: 18262

Go buy a decent resolution USB laser mouse and open it up and put the logic board inside this mouse. there should be room for it, and the hole where the ball used to be should give you a nice place for the eye to see out of.

then if the switches on your mouse are separate from the PCB then just ...
by ezrahilyer
09 Dec 2014, 19:25
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Building A Raspberry Pi inside An Apple Extended Keyboard.
Replies: 17
Views: 6301

Hasn't someone not written a keyboard controller driver for the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins / Raspbian already?

Yes, I looked into that when I was planning this, but if I did that, I wouldn't be able to add a switch to change between sources, and have this just function as a regular keyboard when I ...
by ezrahilyer
09 Dec 2014, 15:15
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Building A Raspberry Pi inside An Apple Extended Keyboard.
Replies: 17
Views: 6301

http://preamp.org/mods/raspcherry-pi
Here's something similar with a Cherry G80-3000 [english and german text].

I like the idea to have a portable mini computer with a decent keyboard on hand.


That Cherry board was my inspiration, I saw that on hackaday a while back, and had wanted to do one ...
by ezrahilyer
09 Dec 2014, 04:08
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Building A Raspberry Pi inside An Apple Extended Keyboard.
Replies: 17
Views: 6301

Building A Raspberry Pi inside An Apple Extended Keyboard.

I built a Raspberry Pi inside an Apple Extended Keyboard. This is my project:

http://straypoetry.com/project/raspberry-pi-inside-a-vintage-mechanical-apple-extended-keyboard/


I also did a model M, and probably will make some more, I am thinking of making a dedicated Emacs machine with one of ...
by ezrahilyer
03 Nov 2014, 04:24
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: What's In My Bag 2007 to 2014 meme
Replies: 0
Views: 1080

What's In My Bag 2007 to 2014 meme

I have been doing the 'whats in my bag' meme since 07, and I compiled the pictures and descriptions in one place on my blog:
http://straypoetry.com/whats-in-my-bag/

I know it's a little bit of shameless self-promotion, but I thought you might be interested since it is a bunch of technology and ...
by ezrahilyer
29 Sep 2014, 03:11
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Classic Mechanical Keyboards As Analogies to Mythical Gods,
Replies: 14
Views: 3809

Classic Mechanical Keyboards As Analogies to Mythical Gods,

I am looking for analogies to gods and goddesses (greek, roman, norse, whatever) for classic desirable mechanical keyboards. Weird right? Anyway, I have these so far:

IBM Model M = Zeus, king of the gods. This one seems to make great sense to me because the Model M is essentially the standard, it ...

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