deskthority

Thanks!


BTW. Is that supposed to be a pen tray at the top right, or is it for something else?


I believe it's meant to be a pen tray, but there's a jumper on the PCB that refers to a barcode reader. I think that other versions of the keyboard may have included a barcode reader in that spot ...

I found this Siemens PC16-11 keyboard at a flea market. I had been searching for a Siemens keyboard for quite some time because I like their funky keycaps and overall aesthetics. Finally, I stumbled upon one. Here's how it looked when I first brought it home:

dirty Siemens PC16-11 keyboard

It ...

I have the same type of switches (broadly speaking), 4B3S, so logic scan switches. I also have the same type of controller with the same type of multiplexer. Very similar set up. The chips around are a bit different, but most are redundant when converted to USB in my case as well as far as i can ...

What confused me is: which pins of the sensor do the columns and rows of the matrix connect on respectively? Noticed your back pcb shows 4pins for every sensor but only 3 of them has connecting trace. I guess they should be VCC,GND and output, right? According to your code, the D7, D6, B5, B4 ...

Jesseg wrote: 19 Nov 2020, 05:17 Typing demo pls xo

Sure thing, here you go!

I did this conversion quite a while ago, but since this was a fun process, the keyboard is pretty interesting and because this could potentially be of interest to others, I still decided to write about it.

I found this keyboard on a local flea market, it was love at first sight. When I got it it ...