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Thu, 07 Jul 2016 13:20:22 +0000

In the previous installment I had opined about the untapped power inside my new mechanical keyboard. I haven’t had much time to continue looking into the firmware, but I did find the original source of the firmware tools for a similar product. His blog post is well worth a read.

Thus far the new device is performing admirably, but it did come with an unforeseen problem.

I always have a bunch of computers here at my desk, and so for some time I’ve had a physical KVM switch to share a single monitor and input devices among them. This switch has a special USB port on the back just for the keyboard, which it monitors for the double-scroll-lock macro command to switch the display. Unfortunately, said port will not power the new keyboard and also won’t work with a hub.

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