{"id":13,"date":"2002-08-17T21:32:49","date_gmt":"2002-08-18T02:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pealefamily.net\/tech\/arcade\/?p=13"},"modified":"2002-08-17T21:32:49","modified_gmt":"2002-08-18T02:32:49","slug":"13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it has been a bit since I updated this particular page, hasn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>The keyboard I mentioned below worked, but it wasn&#8217;t viable for this project.  I was looking for a model that had a small encoder hooked to mylar sheets, like this:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\".\/images\/pcb-2.jpg\"><img src=\".\/images\/pcb-2s.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>What a hack.  I had to find these tiny little drill bits (called, apparently, wire bits, due to their tiny size).  I had attempted to solder the wires directly to the circuit traces, but it just wasn&#8217;t working.  Every wire I would attach, I&#8217;d stray with the iron, and unsolder the wires.<\/p>\n<p>I finally finished (sorry, no pics of the finished product, but here&#8217;s one of my workstation:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\".\/images\/wkstn-1.jpg\"><img src=\".\/images\/wkstn-1s.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I finally finish, plug it in, and start to register keystrokes, when it just stops.  I&#8217;m thinking, &quot;Great!  I just fried the encoder or the test motherboard!&quot;  Turns out it was more annoying than that.  The wires that plug into the encoder from the computer had all (but one) broken off!  So, I had to take time and strip, prep re-solder, and this time I&#8217;m tying the wires down, so they won&#8217;t break off as easily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it has been a bit since I updated this particular page, hasn&#8217;t it? The keyboard I mentioned below worked, but it wasn&#8217;t viable for this project. I was looking for a model that had a small encoder hooked to mylar sheets, like this: What a hack. I had to find these tiny little drill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}