I have an old Focus FK 9000 keyboard. It's super clickey, has no windows
keys, 12 programmable keys, and the numeric keypad can be switched to be a
caclulator. I don't want to give it up.

I'm already using an adapter from the old style connector to PS2.

I want to make it wireless.

Does anyone know of an easy way to do this?

Previously Mark Healey <die (AT) spammer (DOT) die> wrote:
I doubt there is an easy way. A simple way would be to wire-in
the electronics from a wireless keyboard. That would loose the
programmability, but if your keyboard is single switches, then you
could at least to an one-to-one match to the keys in the
key-matrix of the wireless keyboard with enough wires.
Pro: Energy consumption will be that of the canibalized wireless
keyboard. Con: Lots of wiring to do and loss of programability.
Also possible problems fitting the new elecronics into the old case.

My advice: Leave it as it is. Likely it consumes to much energy
for a reasoble wireless solution without complete electronics
replacement....

Arno

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:56:18 +0000, Arno Wagner wrote:

I was hoping that the RF circuits on the wireless keyboards were a
standard keyboard with a little radio replacing the wires. Even if they
are on the same board I figured that a little work with a small knife and
some soldering I could make it work.

I suppose I'll have to wait until they are cheap enough for me to
experiment.

Previously Mark Healey <die (AT) spammer (DOT) die> wrote:
I don't think it works that way. The keyboards very likely use a
specialized protocoll over the link, that has only very loose
connection to the PS/2 signals.

Arno