keyboard , for reasons I ’m still uncertain of , seem toinspire a lot of nerdery . People will spend hundreds of dollars to tweak and customize their keyboard until they ’re sodding . Or they ’ll bust out some onetime keyboard parts and a knit acerate leaf to add a ThinkPad - style trackpoint to an old mechanical keyboard .
First noticed by Hackaday , Geekhack.org user Klapsehas gone and added a Trackpoint , like the one found on a ThinkPad laptop , to a mechanical keyboard . That was n’t the original goal though .
Klapse first purchase five older Lenovo - made keyboards with a Trackpoint built in , but one after the other failed . After a sixth one kicked the pail in under a year , Klapse switched over to a mechanical keyboard with clicky Cherry MX low switch .
Trackpoint users REALLY love this little red nubbin.Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)
But while the typing was better , Klapse still missed that picayune blood-red nipple that use as a ThinkPad ’s alternative to a mouse or trackpad . So they rent the working mental faculty out of one of their many busted Lenovo keyboards , find a hole in the tour board for their new mechanical keyboard , and set the trackpoint up . The nub was naturally too short to gibe through the keyboard ’s circuit board and loving cup up between the keys , so Klapse had to arrive up with a solution and settle on a needle from a stitching machine .
As someone who is no stranger toconverting a keyboard in hunting of perfection , I ’ve begin to acclaim Klapse ’s mod . And then I have to quietly point to theTex Yoda II , a mechanical keyboard ( with a wide variety of switch types available ) that already has the little nipple built in , no stitchery acerate leaf required .
If spending $ 280 to $ 300 on the Tex Yoda II seems like way too much , you could get more details on Klapse ’s mod bygoing flat to Geekhack.org , where they outlined their entire cognitive operation with pictures .
[ Hackaday ]
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