Colorful Split Keyboard Uses VGA Connections
When it arrives to creating a break up keyboard, you have a whole lot of choices when it arrives to the cable. Several will use a regular 3.5 mm TRRS cable, and some others may well use a little something far more esoteric like RJ-45 to operate involving the halves. This only performs if you’re applying two controllers if you only want a single controller, you have to move the matrix from one particular aspect to the other, which usually involves much more than the 4 wires available by the aforementioned options. Whilst rummaging all over, [Joe Scotto] uncovered a VGA cable and assumed, why not use that?
This wonderful Barbie-themed peripheral is a break up version of an previously board he created termed the ScottoFly, which is a monoblock split with a void in the center. As with that a person, this is hand-wired utilizing thicc brass insulated with heat-shrink, employs a good 3D-printed plate, and a printed situation. And like a madman, [Joe] coiled the cable.
Sadly, this proved to be problematic in the wire breakage sense, or so he imagined. The actual issue turned out to be that the center row of pins on a VGA connector all act like floor, so they simply cannot be utilised to go rows and columns. On the other hand, there were being nevertheless plenty of practical pins to send the 4×5 matrix throughout. Be confident to verify out the construct movie just after the crack.
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