Woodstock

[Harald]

(01-18-2017 08:57 AM)Paul Dale Wrote:  The WPM team is looking into possible Woodstock firmware. Bernhard (of PANAMATIK fame) has offered us some very flexible hardware possibilities which is fantastic and very much appreciated. However, is anyone willing & able to produce replacement keys for the keyboard?

I'm not sure how difficult it is to open the sealed keyboard layer on these devices. They look heat sealed which is tricky. I'm planning on opening a broken one soon to see what's inside and how difficult they are to reseal. Still, it would be good to understand what people have done before.

I'm not up to the 3D design required -- think the key plus an inlaid keytop and probably an inlaid front face. Two or three colours. We'll also want three shift keys in three colours and an overlay for the front face (Bernhard does these in vinyl already).

Any volunteers for a thankless but fulfilling project?


Pauli

I have taken appart several woodstock keyboards and put them back togather. There are a couple of issuse:
Once the heat stakes have been cut down, on reasembly the PCB has to be glued to what is left of the heat stakes. You won't be able to do this a second time.
You have to carefully avoid glue getting onto the metal strips. If glue gets on there you have messed up your keyboard (I speak from experience here).

I understand that using a Woodstoock calculator is very tempting. I really like its form factor, too. But I'd like to suggest using a Classic again.
The keyboard is easily taken appart and put back togather.
There is an extra row of keys, so 35 instead of 30 keys are available
15 digit display instead of 12, with the limitation that a decmial point requires its own digit and two consecutive decimal points are not possible.

Cheers,
Harald