Thanks to everyone who voted for my project, thanks to ABBUC for organizing the contest (and for the prize 🏆) and congratulations to everyone who took the time to submit a hardware or software project for keeping our favorite piece of retro tech alive. I also want to thank Jesse aka XL Freak who des...

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31.07.2023 09:48

Would you consider doing an Atari 400 version?

Yes. I bought a 400 and a 800 for that purpose. Seems like I'll also get a loaner 1200XL at some point so I can make one for that machine as well, and then the whole collection will be covered

By the way, I realize I failed to credit XLFreak for his contributions in the main post. Jesse, alias XLFreak, designed the key caps. This project also found a lot of inspiration from other mechanical keyboard projects, and owes a lot to the feedback that was provided by users of the XE version. So ...

Are the special characters available for the XL keyboard (printed on the keys, similar to the XE version) ? We wanted to stay close to the original in terms of looks, but I have some ideas. First, adding the glyphs on top of the keys like we did for the XE version will not look good, as the XL lege...

My comment wasn't meant too seriously and I certainly don't want to push you into feature-creep with your project - just thinking out loud about future possibility (maybe also for third-party modders). A rather easy way to interface the LEDs to the Atari would be to use some tiny ARM/Atmel/PIC/... ...

and is possible to use WS2812B? :-) Hehe, individual software controllable RGB setting of each LED would be a nifty feature :) The LEDs are blue. Addressable RGBs would be a completely different project. Not impossible, but you'd have to build a way to get the Atari to talk serially to the LEDs. It...

Frage von der 130XE-Vaiante: Ist die Beleuchtung wahlweise auch komplett abschaltbar? Yes, the backlighting is completely optional, you can choose not to assemble the luminosity pot, in which case you'll have no lighting, or you can set the pot to the minimum level. You could even wire a switch to ...

Very good project. It would be nice if version #1 could have Atari logo key like Atari 800 instead of inverse one. Original Atari logo not Infogrames era "belly" logo. Thanks. Yes, the key cap sets contain several additional keys that you can choose from. One of them is the Fuji logo: IMG...

The key cap sets include several different designs for the Atari/inverse key that you can choose from. The ones with the Fuji now have the correct logo. There's even one with the Fuji in inverse...