Nuclear missile silo keyboard repurposed for usb

[mouser]

Gothic (John), a programmer and electronics savant, who used to handle server administrator for DonationCoder, had a project featured on Hackaday.com today.  Very cool stuff.

He found a weird old keyboard (with trackball) on ebay and it turned out to come from a nuclear missile silo.  After some work with an Arudino board he got it talking to USB interface.  Very cool.

https://hackaday.com...-re-launched-in-usb/

Nuclear missile silo keyboard repurposed for usb

[Gothi[c]]

w00t w00t

[mouser]

Make sure you check out John's video:

Highly watchable.

When I saw John in real life over thanksgiving, I thought I would flex my youtube creator knowledge, and warned him about getting a copyright strike on the music playing in the background.
To which John replied that he had created the music himself, specifically for the video.
To which I thought, yes, of course you did, John.  Of course you did.

[Gothi[c]]

Yep I made it using the sunvox tracker - which is a great little piece of software. ( https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ )
Here's the original file, so you can make your own version of the song and/or mess with it:

http://www.linkerror.../stuff/nukeme.sunvox

There's not a single recorded sample in there, it's all generated with synth modules on the fly - which sunvox is great at.

( can this count as my NANY? )

[MilesAhead]

Highly watchable

-mouser (December 01, 2021, 02:00 PM)

Interesting stuff.  I am curious about one thing though.  Has anyone scanned this keyboard with a Geiger counter?   

[Ath]

( can this count as my NANY? )

-Gothi[c] (December 01, 2021, 02:19 PM)

Sure you can

But the $64,000 question: Is it usable as a daily driver?

[Gothi[c]]

> Is it usable as a daily driver?
The modifier keys do not send keycodes (nor does the down arrow key) - if you can live with that annoyance, then I suppose so (one could presumably remap those to other keys).

[mouser]

can this count as my NANY?

Official answer: yes.

[Deozaan]

I misread "usb" in the title as "sub" and thought it was put into a nuclear submarine.

Very cool, nonetheless.