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Microsoft Sculpt Wired Conversion Mod

84 点作者 yuribro大约 4 年前

18 条评论

w4rh4wk5大约 4 年前
Great work. Something I&#x27;d definitely want would I still be using the Sculpt.<p>Like others have mentioned here, the Sculpt suffers from other issues apart from being wireless:<p>My biggest issue is the small, poorly constructed F-keys. Switching to regular sized keys on the Microsoft Surface Ergonomic shows how bad they actually are.<p>Anyway, is there a way we could get Microsoft to build a Sculpt v2 which fixes the shortcomings of the original one?! I still think it&#x27;s one of the best ergonomic keyboards, even with issues it has.
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petargyurov大约 4 年前
I have a bit of a sour experience with this keyboard. I love it, I really do.<p>But when I accidentally wrecked the receiver, here&#x27;s what I found:<p>* MS doesn&#x27;t offer replacement receivers<p>* Each keyboard is paired to its specific receiver so you can&#x27;t even buy an off-the-shelf replacement<p>* MS make it extremely hard to reach a person to speak to<p>* Their website practically doesn&#x27;t have support for this keyboard<p>My Sculpt is now a useless piece of plastic.
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tomduncalf大约 4 年前
It is a pretty nice keyboard. The layout is pretty good aside from the small clicky F keys and physical Fn switch (don’t use them much so not too worried), and I like how the key travel feels like Macbook keys. Also totally cured the RSI I was starting to feel years ago.<p>Mine broke recently (a key cap fell off and I thought I could just shove it back on which ended up breaking some plastic bit) and I looked into alternatives but there isn’t much competition for split layout unless you spend a lot more on one of the custom build ones (extra expensive in the U.K. as they all ship from the US). I needed one right away so I just bought another, it’ll be my third in about 7 years.<p>The USB interference thing does suck, I have mine on a separate USB 2 hub plugged into my USB 3 hub some distance apart and it works fine like that. One other thing to be aware of is that if you lose or break the little USB dongle the keyboard becomes useless as they are paired in the factory (unless you do this mod I guess, heh!)
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murderfs大约 4 年前
&gt; Given tantalum is a rare earth metal, it might be nice to replace it with a ceramic and maybe a 4 Ω resistor in series. I’d love any input here.<p>USB allows for 10uF of capacitance, and you don&#x27;t seem to have an LDO on your board, so you don&#x27;t need a minimum amount of ESR to maintain stability. I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s any reason you can&#x27;t just replace the tantalum with a ceramic?<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chadaustin.me&#x2F;images&#x2F;sculpt&#x2F;pcbway-top.jpeg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chadaustin.me&#x2F;images&#x2F;sculpt&#x2F;pcbway-top.jpeg</a><p>This is shockingly bad. I was thinking of using PCBWay to assemble a run of a dozen or so PCBs, because JLCPCB is limited on solder mask color and part selection, but this has pretty firmly turned me away from that.
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brainlessdev大约 4 年前
Awesome article!<p>A tip: the images are way too heavy for the 600w you gave them. They range from 2 to 7MB. You can probably get them down to like 50KB each!
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alex_duf大约 4 年前
Plugging this here if anyone is annoyed at the miscrosoft sculpt not being recognised on macos:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;alexduf&#x2F;microsoft-scuplt-ergonomic-macos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;alexduf&#x2F;microsoft-scuplt-ergonomic-macos</a>
pixelbath大约 4 年前
Have been using a Sculpt keyboard since around 2015. One thing that seems to alleviate the problems of missed keys and the keyboard going to sleep (at least on Windows): in the Device Manager, look for the connection dongle (it should be connected via the USB Root Hub) and edit its Power Management settings to disable &quot;Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.&quot;<p>I haven&#x27;t had any issues with the laptop going to sleep when it&#x27;s told with this setting enabled, and afaik battery life is unaffected (still haven&#x27;t changed batteries in the keyboard after 3 years).<p>Regardless, I&#x27;ll still be checking out this mod. I didn&#x27;t even know this keyboard had LEDs in it.<p>Suggestions for Microsoft product developers if they ever read this or care:<p>1. Fn keys have <i>got</i> to be like the rest of the keys. Like other users here, I get F5 (which I use to <i>run code in Visual Studio</i>) stuck probably greater than 50% of the time.<p>2. Separate Fn key, or separate media keys. The switch is stupid, and I never use the non-Fn functions.<p>3. Take the calculator key off the main keyboard; it&#x27;s a duplicate of the key on the numpad, <i>where it is actually useful</i>.<p>4. I&#x27;m ok with the backspace key on the numpad, but the top 3 keys should be regular keys, not microswitches.<p>5. Better power management and wake-from-sleep. This thing should <i>never</i> be dropping keystrokes. Ever. I&#x27;d trade battery life for this feature.<p>6. Make wired optional! Almost <i>everything</i> has a charger these days...why am I given alkaline batteries for this? This also potentially opens up the gamer market, given the latency reduction shown in this article.
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imagine99大约 4 年前
I&#x27;d actually like a mod the other way round: There are a bunch of great mechanical keyboards (such WASD V3, daskeyboard prime or many other amazing custom builds) but they are all wired. I don&#x27;t know why they don&#x27;t make proper mechanical wireless keyboards (they are bulky enough that a battery should easily find space). But a wireless conversion mod would be the next best thing.<p>Due to my (unchangeable) desk situation, wired keyboards aren&#x27;t really a possibility, so this is a real gap in the market for me and I was quite surprised, given the extreme multitude of keyboard models in the world, that I wasn&#x27;t able to find one (or even have one custom built within a reasonable price range) that ticked all the boxes.<p>Unfortunately, my electronics talent is by far not good enough to attempt something like the linked article (but in reverse, as it were).
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Xevi大约 4 年前
&gt; It was like the keyboard would go to sleep if a key wasn’t pressed for a few seconds, and the first keypress after a wake would be delayed or, worse, dropped.<p>I have a Sculpt keyboard as well, and the way to fix this is just to move the wireless USB stick that&#x27;s in your computer closer to your keyboard. I have mine at about a 40cm distance. If I place it over 100cm away I start getting sporadic connectivity issues, which result in delayed or dropped input. It also gets worse if you have a lot of things in the way between your USB stick and keyboard&#x2F;mouse (duh). For example, if you place the stick at the back of your PC, and below your desk, the signal has a harder time going through the chassis and desk to reach your keyboard&#x2F;mouse.
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nikital大约 4 年前
Awesome post! I&#x27;m confused about the schematics of the keyboard and I wonder if anybody here might point me in the right direction: The HWB pin is pulled permanently low, so the MCU runs the default USB DFU bootloader on startup&#x2F;reset. Then the application firmware can be programmed using dfu-programmer.<p>But what happens after programming, when you unplug the keyboard and plug it back in? Since HWB is still pulled low, doesn&#x27;t the MCU go back into the DFU bootloader instead of running the application? How does the keyboard run the actual application firmware rather than the bootloader?
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boromi大约 4 年前
Is the latency really improved? I&#x27;ve been using wireless keyboard for a very long time now and can&#x27;t say it&#x27;s anything I&#x27;ve really noticed or lacked.
czechdeveloper大约 4 年前
I loved the keyboard, except longevity (of pieces I personally got) was really really bad.<p>As for the mouse that comes with it, I went through 3 of them (left button started to randomly not click, about once every 3 clicks which drove me crazy) and then just gave up.<p>Keyboard itself could be said that I damanged as I tried to remove key to clean crumb that got inside and I could never get it back.
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jeromenerf大约 4 年前
Plenty of hacking, thorough documentation, nice style, thanks for sharing!<p>Improving on latency, even a bit, is surprisingly noticeable and enjoyable.
totetsu大约 4 年前
Since updating to the latest feature pack of win 10 my M$ comfort curve usb keyboard started going to sleep after a few moments of non use, then dropping keys when you started typing again. I had to go deep into the device settings to disable auto sleep for it. its like windows 10 drivers for ms hardware just suck.
martinmunk大约 4 年前
Great work! I have two Sculpt&#x27;s that I use daily, and have also wanted to do something like this for a while. I&#x27;ve never had issues with the wireless signals, but would like QMK firmware so I could remap buttons. I haven&#x27;t really found a way to do this in Linux, with keyboard layers and whatnot.
otterpro大约 4 年前
I want this. I&#x27;d buy it in an instance if it were available as a kit. I also use the MS Sculpt keyboard, but I miss the QMK firmware of my DZ60 mechanical keyboard.
giancarlostoro大约 4 年前
Honestly I wish all their wireless keyboards had a wired option. It&#x27;s just far more convenient, especially when switching between a work and personal desktop.
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_trampeltier大约 4 年前
I just would do this for a long time, but never started. So I&#x27;m super excited to see this :-)