[Arm-netbook] modifying a 7 inch notebook cabinet to accept a pc card

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Christopher Havel
<laserhawk64 at 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.