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December 22nd, 2009, 18:40
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Before you laugh awkwardly at the weird sense of nostalgia this keyboard dredges up in your mind, let us introduce you to its wonders. Apparently modded by a Dutch man or woman courageous enough to admit that (like us) they prefer the pretty much extinct, giant, tactile-as-all-get out keyboards to newer, more streamlined models, this mod takes away the only gripe we ever had with such peripherals -- namely, their wiredness. The enterprising DIYer's taken a Logitech (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Logitech/) wireless Wii (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Wii/) keyboard apart, mapping all the key codes along the way, thrown in a little basic soldering, wedged everything into the old keyboard and voila! Pretty magical, right? Well, okay -- not really, but still -- we sort of dig it. There's a before shot after the break, and hit the source link for the poorly machine translated how-to.
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Before you laugh awkwardly at the weird sense of nostalgia this keyboard dredges up in your mind, let us introduce you to its wonders. Apparently modded by a Dutch man or woman courageous enough to admit that (like us) they prefer the pretty much extinct, giant, tactile-as-all-get out keyboards to newer, more streamlined models, this mod takes away the only gripe we ever had with such peripherals -- namely, their wiredness. The enterprising DIYer's taken a Logitech (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Logitech/) wireless Wii (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Wii/) keyboard apart, mapping all the key codes along the way, thrown in a little basic soldering, wedged everything into the old keyboard and voila! Pretty magical, right? Well, okay -- not really, but still -- we sort of dig it. There's a before shot after the break, and hit the source link for the poorly machine translated how-to.
Continue reading Modder mods new fangled wireless keyboard to look like old timey one (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/modder-mods-wireless-keyboard-to-look-like-old-timey-one/)
Modder mods new fangled wireless keyboard to look like old timey one (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/modder-mods-wireless-keyboard-to-look-like-old-timey-one/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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