On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Christopher Havel laserhawk64@gmail.com wrote:
Regarding the keyboard... here's the secret. Get hook probes for your multimeter. The little springloaded ones. (Google Image search if you don't know.) That reduces it to a non-invasive half-hour process (or thereabouts)... that's what it took me with an Adesso ACK-595 USB compact keyboard.
Hook to one row, one column, with your multimeter set to continuity. (This may or may not be a challenge to identify.) Press a key. If you get a match, move to the next column and the next key. Proceed systematically.
yep.... that's what i did. four hours later i had destroyed the connector because the graphite had come off. what partial information that did have was of no use.
destroying a keyboard and examining the flexible PCB was what did it: i found that the layout was ROW1 ROW2 COL1 ROW3 COL2 ROW4 ROW5 COL3
nothing that was even remotely sensible!
As for the AnyTop. Body is a standard three-ring binder with the ring module removed (that's what the drill is needed for -- #(^&$#@!! rivets). Display is a Chinese clone of the WaveShare 7" 1024x600 "Type C" HDMI touch display, ignoring the touch input. Keyboard and mouse are cheap compact wired USB models. There is a four-port bus-powered USB hub (system unit has only two ports... ew) that's an IOGEAR model I'm personally familiar with, it's a gem from them. (I'd prefer a self-powered hub, but those get too expensive too fast.) System unit is a WinTel CX-W8 or similar... Atom Z3735F CPU, 2gb RAM, 32gb eMMC SSD..
so not a shabby amount of processing, then. not bad.
l.