Quick question:
If I only implemented Shift, left arrow, control, 1, Q, A, B, G, T and 6 (which is enough to play all the non keyboard games I'm aware of), would that be enough for people?

John

Haha! I've been playing Crazy Chicky! The controls are sideways, which is interesting. No idea what went wrong there. The buttons work, except the one where I pulled the pad clean off the PCB. (Oversized diodes mounted on a tiny SMD pad.) It ain't pretty but it proves the concept is valid! Oh, and i...

OK I had a few hours spare this morning and I have done some investigation. I have rapidly moved from "Why doesn't this work?" to "How did this ever work?" I'm going to have to do a complete respin of all the PCBs. All need revision and another spin. It looks like the Schematics, at least, are fine....

Not entirely sure what the problem was. I set it all up to test and it worked. At the time of the first issue, I had a huge pile of other projects I was working on, so it was probably something minor :-) My plan for this week is to start testing all the connections and see where I went wrong with th...

I'd definitely be holding off for now. There's at least one respin I need to do on all four pieces. Unfortunately it takes time and money to develop these things.

I'm most concerned about the lower keyboard piece. I'm just not sure why it didn't work.

John

@Mamejay, it's not a straight membrane replacement. The joystick part is. The keyboard part isn't. I haven't worked out how we could do the keyboard part as a straight up BTW an update. I got the Wizzard working again and... The Joystick part works perfectly! Wooooot! Unfortunately there's still a p...

Just had a bit of a setback, everyone :-( Spent over 7 hours working on this today. Couldn't get the right diodes so kludged in some much bigger diodes. Finally got it into a state where I was ready to plug it in and... The Wizzard isn't working. I turn it on, but get no picture or sound. (Maybe the...

Well, the PCBs are here. Haven't had a chance to solder them up yet, but they're looking pretty sweet. The keyboard section one will definitely need another spin. The joystick part looks OK? Guess we'll find out this weekend :-D IMG20220804204540.jpg Keyboard section. The button spacing is off and I...

OKM I have thrown the current version here: https://github.com/cheshirenoir/CreatiV ... alKeyboard

Once I have some $$$ I'll probably build one of these. Can't afford too many projects at once

John

I had some spare time, and wanted to play some more with KiCAD, so I sat down and designed a mechanical keyboard. Schottky diodes for key isolation. As many keys mapped "sanely" as I could to a modern layout. I've no plans on actually manufacturing it at this point. It's $22USD for the PCBs and $60U...