Building An Artemis Keyboard for My CoCo

[@anjinmiura6708]

Recommended finishing touch? Some sort of black foam board to cover the empty spaces. I wonder if CoCoNut Bob could use his KiCAD data to produce some sort of SVG file. From there I'm sure I could use that to create a printable template using Inkscape, slap that onto some sort of black (or other color?) foam board and carefully and slowly and as perfectly as I am capable of (hint: I'm not all that capable but I'll try) cut out a finishing frame for the keyboard.

[@CoCoNutBob]

Beauty! The only keycap you need to "fix" is the right shift key 😜 Maybe a couple of reflows 👍 i like the idea of one row at a time, but definitely realized i should have done four corners first! Well done sir! Oh... How does your video already have more likes with less views than mine? Is it something i said? 😂 💚 CoCo every day!

[@rockyhill3]

Thank you! More views? really? Just luck I guess but your build(s) look real nice! Thank you for the board!

[@anjinmiura6708]

*sigh* I'm STILL waiting for my parts to perform the build. I'm told they arrive today so maybe tomorrow I can get mine built. I ordered two sets of keycaps so that I can select the keys I like from each. (Having a RED escape key with WHITE letters was a MUST! The arrow keys set was also nicer from one set than the other. I'll provide images to Discord if anyone is interested.

[@8antipode9]

Cool, didn't know this existed! I ended up cobbling together my own keyboard with a steel plate I had cut. I didn't pay too much attention to the outer dimensions so I ended up just kinda hot-gluing into place. Not pretty but definitely a great feeling mechanical keyboard on my CoCo2.

[@8antipode9]

I also did my own dye sub keycaps, had someone on Etsy print the legends for me, then I used a hair straightener (I think that's what it's called?) to "iron" the legend on to blank keycaps.

[@8antipode9]

Also that 2 has got to be a keeper! If it was me, I constantly forget that the double-quote is up there above the 2, so I say it's worth keeping

[@CoCoNutBob]

I still sometimes hit shift-2 when looking for quotes! ​@@8antipode9 I need a CoCo keyboard to USB adapter!

[@rockyhill3]

@@8antipode9 Yeah, it's nice to have options! You made your own using a steel plate? I'm sure it looks great, you should definitely show it off!

[@zt7903]

Not sure how else to contact you so I’ll try this. I bought a pepper board from your westchester-tech website linked in your video about the pepper board on 8/31. I emailed the Gmail linked on the square website and have not received anything back. Could you cancel my order please and reply back to the emails I have sent? Thank you

[@rockyhill3]

@@zt7903 hello, sorry to hear about your issues. I am having issues receiving messages from square and you are the second person to tell me this. I can issue a refund if you'd like or I can ship the pepper board to you. You can email me at [e-mail]. if the email doesn't show up in the comments, you can grab it from the contact page here. I'm very sorry for the trouble you are going through. Please contact me and if we can come to an agreement .

[@anjinmiura6708]

The way CoCoNut Bob did the soldering of the switches was pretty good. He did them row by row and was able to inspect each switch and easily make corrections if any were found. "Simple" rules my world and takes away opportunities for me to disappoint myself. Your video quality from the composite is AMAZING. Is that composite? Though I have a composite modded CoCo2, there has been progress in the MC10 realm for an S-Video mod. It may actually become S-Video + trrs composite+audio. This is very exciting because S-Video converts better with inexpensive S-Video to HDMI devices. Schematic drawings are there in the MC10 discord channel.. I wonder if you could adapt that for CoCo 1 and 2 varieties?

[@rockyhill3]

Yes, it's composite, the regular composite that comes from the CoCo 3. It does look good but somehow it looks better on the recording, lol. As far as having it for other CoCo's I think AC from AC's 8 bit Zone has already done that for some of his CoCo 2's. I'll have to check it out.